Newsletter June 2009

News Engineers Australia Northern Division

June 2009

Survey House 14 Shepherd Street Darwin GPO Box 417 Darwin NT 0801 Telephone (08) 8981 4137 Fax (08) 8941 3449 Email nt@engineersaustralia.org.au Website: www.engineersaustralia.org.au

In this issue ...

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Director’s Report National President’s Visit Report President’s Report Engineering Team Congratulations Science & Engineering Challenge Darwin and Alice Springs SMART (Science, Maths & Real Technology) Sponsors Cocktail Party Poole’s Ponderings D D Smith Engineering Technologist Site visit Young Engineers Australia Calendar of Events

This has been a busy time for Northern Division with two eminent speakers, a visit by National President Peter Godfrey, working towards this year’s Excellence Awards and two Science and Engineering Challenges in Alice Springs and Darwin. In addition we had a fascinating talk about Sir John Monash

by Peter Thomas. If anyone is interested in a speaker I can really recommend this. The audience could have listened for another hour I am sure.

Congratulations to Paul Tyrrell for receiving an AO in the Queen’s Birthday Honours list.

Northern Division members are known for their contribution to society and it is good to see one being honoured in this way.

We have just received the Darwin Cup Carnival publication with Engineers Australia featuring on Darwin Cup Day as sponsors of the Special Conditions Handicap 1300m. This is our major event for Engineering Week 2009 to raise the profile of engineering in Northern Division. We have a limited number of corporate tickets available for sale so please speak to staff if you are interested in these. They will cover meals, drinks and all entry costs in a corporate area for the day.

you are looking for we might actually have it!

Owen Peake has advised us that he and Helen have bought an apartment in Collingwood where they intend to live for the time being.

“The exterior of our building is a 100 year old red brick factory facade but inside it is all new and built in 2005.” He said that Callignee is still on the back burner until the Royal Commission is over. There seems to be a move for a regime of compulsory evacuation when fire risk is high which might make living in the fire-prone areas very difficult indeed.

Congratulations to GHD who won the GenEx trivia night on Friday. It was a well attended event especially by young people although not too many of the older generation were in attendance. Perhaps they were too scared of being shown up by the young ones????

We were sad to hear of the death of Phil Totterdell last week. Phil was a hard working member of the Hydraulics Conference planning group last year and was well know at Charles Darwin University where he worked.

There is a lot happening over the next few months so I look forward to seeing you at many events.

Bronwyn Russell—Director Northern Division

We have a number of resources in the office that you might be interested in looking at.

These include information about the Professional Standards Scheme which is on a CD. There is also a CD to assist in promoting engineering to women which would be good to use in schools. Items are sent to us from time to time so if there is anything in particular that

Looking for tickets to Darwin Cup Day?? We have limited tickets available for sale.

Contact Karen Relph for more details on 8981 4137.

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National President’s Visit It has been my pleasure to showcase some of our engineering achievements to our national president Peter Godfrey and his wife Jayne. We attended the ANZAC Day dawn service at the Cenotaph which was particularly poignant as Jayne’s father had served in Darwin during the Second World War. We visited the Gove region and projects around Darwin. As you can see from the list of projects visited there was a range from the highly technical to the more mundane and essential. The visits to Bawaka, Milikapiti and Pirlangimpi demonstrated some of the difficulties of working in remote areas.

As well as the projects there were a number of networking opportunities. An informal gathering to meet the management committee was held on the Sunday evening at Dripstone Cliffs.

On the Monday a dinner meeting was held in Nhulunbuy and Peter addressed the large number of graduates attending as well as presenting Steve Petrofes with his Fellows certificate. On Wednesday Peter addressed a Darwin lunchtime meeting and then in the evening attended our Sponsors Cocktail Party to thank those very important sponsors and hard working management committee members. Peter also presented Jarred Simpson with his CPeng certificate. On Thursday Peter met with Professor Graham Pegg and others from CDU. An informal harbour cruise on Friday evening completed a very busy week.

Showing Peter and Jayne some of our magnificent Territory was a privilege and I thank them for their visit. I also wish to thank Bronwyn Russell for her planning and organisation of the visit.

An outline of where the trip went and who hosted inspections.

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Rio Tinto Alcan Inspection of the refinery and mine site Thanks to Cam MacDiarmid and Lee Peters

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Bawaka Community Inspection of a Bushlight Installation Grant Behrendorff, Ken Aitchison, Nina Brown and Traditional Owner, Timmy Djawa Burarrwanga

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Marrara Christian College metal fabrication workshop and training program Richard Hart and his team.

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Waterfront including the new bridge and wave pool Dave McHugh and Paul Busolin from Macmahon

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Tiwi Islands housing by Territory project Peter Russell and Phil Clarke.

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NT Gas Inspection of a new pipeline from Weddell power station and the transfer station to link to Conoco Phillips refinery Maurice Blackburn, Henry Dupal, Mukesh Bhatia

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Military Museum East Point Inspection of the existing facilities and some proposals for future development Col Jeff Dunn Royal Australian Artillery Association (NT)

President’s Report As well as the National President’s visit there have been some other exciting things taking place. Your Management Committee has elected Len Chappell as its Deputy President and he will take over as Northern Division President at our next AGM. Len is a Fellow Technologist and will be the first technologist to be president of a division.

Len has been working in the Northern Territory since 1987. As well as his extensive work career Len is a member of your Management Committee, a Divisional representative on the Electrical College and a Divisional representative on the Technologists Committee.

Congratulations Len. Congratulations to Jacinta Kelly on being awarded the CDU University Medal. Jacinta is a Structural Engineer with GHD. While we had a function to thank our sponsors and I thanked them then, I would like to take this opportunity to let all members know of their generosity and record our thanks in the magazine. Without sponsorship we could not survive.

Peter Hagan Northern Division President

Don’t forget!

National Assessor Ewan Hazeldine’s visit on the 12th-16th of October...

• Come along to Ewan’s workshop and find out how to complete your CER (Career Episode Report).

• Alternatively, if you have already completed your CER’s, get them in now and be ready for your professional interview when Ewan comes to town.

• Check with your firm. Does it have a PDP? Ewan can do an individual session with your firm if you have enough interested.

Contact Karen on 89814137 for more information.

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Engineering Team

Our New Chartered Members

Medalist engineers her future

Congratulations to our new Chartered Members:

Jacinta Kelly had always had a keen interest in maths and physics, but she never imagined it would lead to a career designing and planning the construction of buildings, bridges and towers the world over.

Brent Offer, MIEAust, CPEng, NPER Jared Simpkin, MIEAust, CPEng, NPER Darryl Mackenzie, MIEAust, CPEng, NPER

The 22-year-old structural engineer received a Bachelor of Engineering (Civil)/ Bachelor of Science degree at CDU’s recent graduation ceremony.

Thank you to our professional interviewers who provide their valuable time and assistance. Thanks also to the National Assessor, Ewan Hazeldine, who provides support to those wishing to become Chartered.

The long-time Darwin resident also took out the University Medal (Higher Education) for her outstanding academic record.

Currently working with one of the world’s leading engineering, architecture and consultancy firms, GHD, Jacinta admits that choosing engineering as a career was far from clear cut.

“I certainly didn’t decide on engineering straight out of high school. In fact, I had no idea exactly what engineering was,” Jacinta said.

“My interest in mathematics and physics in high school led me first into the degree of science and then into engineering.

“As I studied, I began to realise my interest in structures and sustainability, which ultimately led to my graduating in civil engineering and obtaining a job as a structural engineer.”

Also a qualified fitness instructor, Jacinta’s best memories of CDU extend past the dedicated lecturers and personal class sizes.

“I actually met my husband Daly, who was also studying engineering with CDU at the time,” she said.

“My engineering degree prepared me quite well for the variety of work I am expected to do and for that I must thank the lecturers at the School of Engineering at CDU immensely.

“The GHD team of over 50 professional and support staff in Darwin is continually expanding as we grow to meet clients' demands for services within a prosperous and buoyant regional economy.”

With long-term plans to travel and work overseas, Jacinta one day hopes to be able to use her skills as an engineer to help those in disaster regions.

Congratulations Michael Grinceri Congratulations to Micheal Grinceri MIEAust and Eric HudsonSmith for winning the Australian Geomechanics Award for 2009 for their paper “Ground Conditions and building protection for the new Metrorail City Project Perth”. This award recognises the authors of the best paper published in the Australian Geomechanics each calendar year.

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National President Peter Godfrey presenting Jarred Simpkin with his CPEng

Congratulations Paul Tyrrell FIEAust CPEng Paul Tyrrell FIEAust CPEng was awarded the Officer of the Order of Australia in the recent Queen's Birthday honours list for service to the community of the Northern Territory in a range of public sector roles, through contributions to major construction and transport infrastructure projects and to the development of economic and social policy.

Paul was Professional Engineer of the Year in 2004 for Northern Division and was subsequently listed in Australia's Top 100 Most Influential Engineers by Engineers Australia.

Northern Division President Peter Hagan said he has known Paul Tyrrell for 30 years and certainly applauds Paul's recognition with the awarding of an AO. "Paul has been the driving force behind some of the Northern Territory's major developments including the Alice Darwin Railway and the Darwin Waterfront Development both of which were winners of Engineering Excellence Awards. . Paul not only served for a number of years as the Northern Territory's senior public servant, the head of the Chief Ministers Department but he did this under both CLP and Labour governments."

Paul is also the Chairman of the NT Onshore Gas Taskforce where he has played a leading role in negotiations to bring the Inpex Project to the Northern Territory.

If you are interested in this workshop please get your registration in. The workshop will be cancelled if there is not enough registrations.

Science & Engineering Challenge —Darwin Every year Engineers Australia Northern Division hosts the Science and Engineering Challenge to entice students to remain interested in the science and maths subjects. The Challenge involved year 9 & 10 high school students competing in science and maths tasks to win on the day and go on to represent the Territory in the national competition in October in Bendigo Victoria.

To have won the Challenge was unexpected as the competition was very high. The students are now establishing how they will get to Bendigo, It is very expensive so we are looking for sponsorship. Supporting students is important, and kindling their excitement for science is vital.” She said.

The 2009 competition saw over 400 high school students enjoy competing for the winning position in Darwin.

With the support of sponsors; Engineers Australia Northern Division, the Department of Education and Training, Charles Darwin University and the Rotary Club of Darwin North, this event is just getting bigger and better every year.

Sanderson Middle School student Daniel Strickland 14 from Lyons said “it’s been a great experience. I’ll definitely be back again next year.” Like many other students, Daniel enjoys finding solutions. “I’ve always liked science and this Challenge has been a great experience. I’m in year 9 now so I’ll definitely be back again in year 10 to have another go.”

Proudly holding their certificate and trophy is Darwin High School, the overall winning team, with teacher Lisa Knight.

The grand finale always plays a major part in the excitement of the day where all the schools gather in the Mal Nairn Auditorium to test the final task of the competition which involves bridge building.

Palmerston Christian School bridge team came up with a strong contender design and made the other bridges work for their position. See image below.

Left to right: Andrew Thai 13 of Karama, Matthew Lim 14 of Karama, Jack Griffin 14 of Karama and Daniel Strickland 14 of Lyons. Operating the Hover Rescue Challenge Bronwyn Russell, Director of Engineers Australia Northern Division hosts the Challenge with the support of Charles Darwin University, the Department of Education and Training and Rotary Club Darwin North. “This is our 3rd year of promoting this event to encourage young Territorians to see the fun side of science and technology with the aim of promoting more people to study engineering, maths or science. Now with the announcement of the planned development of the Charles Darwin University medical school, there is the opportunity for even more choices for the young people to make.” Bronwyn said.

The outright winner was Darwin High School. Lisa Knight, Science Teacher, Darwin High School said “The Science and Engineering Challenge has been a fantastic experience for the yr10 students. They had a great day and are still talking about it now.

Palmerston Christian school students left to right: Britney Brown 14 of Bakewell, Sarafina Holdt 14 Woodroffe, Katie Montgomery-Quin 13 Humpty Doo and Ella Hicks 13 from Durack and Rachael Back 14 from Gunn.

Rachael Back from Palmerston Christian School said the day was both challenging and interesting.

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Science & Engineering Challenge Alice Springs Central Australian secondary students recently came together to complete in the 2009 Alice Springs Science and Engineering Challenge. The Challenge which was held at Alice Springs High School was attended by 160 students from Anzac Hill High School, Alice Springs High School, Centralian Senior Secondary College, Our Lady of the Sacred Heart College and St Philip’s College.

The students had a fabulous day and learnt about teamwork and the principals of science and engineering in the process. The leader board changed quite a number of times throughout the Challenge but at the end of the day, their success at the bridge building activity got the team St Philips’s College

across the line with a final score of 1693.

Congratulations to all the teams for their enthusiasm, participation and teamwork. We wish Darwin High School all the best at the Grand Challenge later in the year.

The 2009 Alice Springs Challenge was sponsored by Power and Water Corporation, Desert Knowledge CRC, Engineers Australia, Charles Darwin University Dept of Education and Training & the Rotary Clubs of Alice Springs. Thank you to our sponsors and the volunteers who gave their time to work alongside the students on the day.

SMART (Science, Maths & Real Technology) PRIMARY SCHOOLS GET tv SMART In semester one 2009 over 700 primary school students in the Northern Territory enjoyed a Science, Maths and Real Technology (SMART) road show sponsored by Engineers Australia Northern Division and Rotary Alice Springs Mbantua.

The road show was presented by Dr Terry Burns from the Newcastle University.

The purpose of the road show is to inspire the imagination of students to consider a career in related fields.

Palmerston Lutheran Primary School is where learning in the 3rd dimension was a new and delightful experience.

Students were shown the science of entertainment and discovered that things like movies, TV and video games have a lot to do with science and maths.

The presenter, Dr Burns said, “Historically, upper primary school is where students make most of their decisions about what sort of field they want to be working in.”

This year students got to see how the Playstation ‘EyeToy’ worked, how much computer-generated animation relied on maths, and how sound effects in movies and video games worked.

Berry Springs Primary students are enthralled with the presentation delivered by Terry.

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Sponsor’s Cocktail Function The sponsor’s cocktail function was held at Cornucopia Museum Café on Wednesday, 29th April.

Sponsors were provided with their certificates of appreciation to thank them for the continued and valuable support to the Division.

It was also an opportunity for our new sponsors to attend the event for the first time.

The event also provided an opportunity for sponsors and members alike to meet the National President during his trip to the Top End. A good afternoon was enjoyed by all and guests enjoyed the ambience of the sunset and took the opportunity to have relaxing good time.

Our sponsors Vital to your Organisation Thank you

Colin Crisp Award 2009 CALL FOR ENTRIES –

CLOSING DATE 31 JULY 2009

The Colin Crisp Award shall be awarded for the most outstanding effort deemed by the Award Committee to have demonstrated excellence through the conservation of an engineering work of historic or heritage significance; engineering work that facilitates the successful conservation of an historic or heritage structure or building; recording, research, or documentation of an engineering history or heritage nature; education, or the creation of awareness in engineering history or heritage and related endeavours The award will be made at the 3rd Australasian Engineering Heritage Conference in Dunedin New Zealand 22-25 November 2009. For more information refer to the Engineering Heritage Australia page on the Engineers Australia web site at www.engineersaustralia.org.au or contact the Administrator on (02)6270 6525

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Poole’s Ponderings - Engineer DD Smith It is interesting when researching our engineering heritage that across various projects, disciplines, time periods and professions the same names appear; one such identity is Engineer DD Smith. Smith worked in the Northern Territory from 1926 until his retirement from the public service in 1957; he then went on to become an elected member of the Northern Territory Legislative Council from 1962 to 1965.

In the records of the time the more common reference to him is “DD Smith” and this is how most people remember him. I asked several old timers who knew DD what his first name was and none knew, they responded, “he was always DD!” A search of the internet reveals that in modern records his full name of David Douglas Smith appears in most references in addition to “DD Smith”.

gions in 1926 this resulted in additional funding for Central Australia particularly for roads. DD was appointed to the position of Resident Engineer Alice Springs in June of 1928; he was employed as an Engineer working from Alice Springs until his retirement.

The works undertaken by DD were many and varied. Pastoral properties were held under lease agreements with the Commonwealth, pastoralists were obliged to make improvements to their properties. DD was appointed to the Pastoral Lease Investigation Committee whose roll was to inspect properties to assess the level of compliance with lease conditions. Inspection tours took place through out the Territory.

The track following the Overland Telegraph was the main North South “road” and tracks along the network of stock routes provided access to the balance of DD was born in Perth, Western Austhe Territory. Construction and maintetralia on 19 November 1897 to parents nance of roads had been under taken by George and Jean Smith. He attended prisoners under the supervision of po(D.D.) Smith Scotch College Melbourne and University in lice however as traffic increased and more fundNT Library PH0107-0205 Hobart Tasmania. He was a Cadet with the Tasing became available modern equipment, inimanian Public Works Department and worked for the PWD and tially fire ploughs, and latter early varieties of graders, trucks the Hydro-electricity Commission as a Civil Engineer. and end loaders were introduced.

He enlisted in the Australian Army in World War 1 on 21 November 1917, undertook training in Hobart as a Trooper and Private, was transferred to the Australian Flying Corps at Laverton Victoria as a “3 rd Air Mechanic” for a month in August 1918 and was discharged on 24 December 1918.

DD was employed by the Commonwealth Railways in 1926 to under take surveys for three railway extensions proposed for the North Australian Railway from Daly Waters. The Commonwealth Government had taken over the Northern Territory from South Australia in 1911 and the improvement of transport infrastructure to provide access to pastoral properties was seen as a priority.

South Australia had focused on constructing a north south railway through the arid interior. The Commonwealth advisors saw more benefit in linking the north with Queensland and Western Australia through the rich Barkly Tableland and the Victoria River District pastoral areas. The Commonwealth was extending the NAR from Katherine to Daly Waters so surveys for the lines to the east and west commenced from Daly Waters. The line never reached Daly Waters as the funding ran out when the line reached Birdum in September 1929.

The Commonwealth government divided the Northern Territory into Northern and Central Australia as administrative re-

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DD was responsible for the upgrading of the road north from Alice Springs with the identification of a suitable alignment, survey and construction taking place sequentially. The administration of the Territory as two separate zones ended in June 1931. The discovery of gold near Tennant Creek in 1934 resulted in the road from Alice Springs being further upgraded to a formed and in some parts gravelled standard. DD convinced of the need for a north south road over spent his budgets.

In an interesting administration / management set up in October 1938 DD became responsible to the NT Administrator for the construction and maintenance of roads and stock routes in the Territory. The Administrator at the time was more involved in the day to day running of the Territory however public servants normally reported to their departmental heads and Ministers in the south.

The military authorities were concerned at the deteriorating security situation in the Asian region in the mid 1930’s and commenced moves to upgrade infrastructure in the North. DD was directed in May 1936 to go to Darwin to “provide local knowledge” to visiting engineers on the identification of suitable water supply dams and then to escort the same engineer south so he could familiarise himself with the status of the north south road.

DD was again called upon in August 1940 to escort military and

Poole’s Ponderings - Engineer DD Smith state road authority officers who had been asked to visit the Territory with the objective being to construct a gravel road from Tennant Creek to Birdum before the 1940/ 1941 wet season. At the time of the inspection it was identified that a formed road with some gravelled sections existed between Alice Springs and Tennant Creek, north of Tennant Creek various stages of survey, clearing, forming and gravelling occurred to near Newcastle Waters with a road alignment identified to Birdum. (In the north a formed road from Darwin to Manton Dam had been constructed and an alignment identified as far as Adelaide River.

DD in 1941 in an attempt to gain additional maintenance and construction equipment approached Canberra directly. A short time latter an interstate engineer was appointed to be responsible for road construction in the Territory. Locals protested at DD being passed over however it was to no avail.

The Northern Territory was under Military control until mid 1945. The war had resulted in dramatic upgrades in the standards of roads and the trucks using them, the early post war effort was to maintain the assets.

Look out for our next newsletter which will feature DD’s driving exploits, life in Alice Springs and post retirement activities.

Peter Poole

1920’s Railway Survey Map

REMINDER TO ALL MEMBERS

A late payment fee will be added to your membership subscription on July 1 2009 if you have not paid.

Please contact us if you do not have an invoice.

tkeogh@engineersaustralia.org.au Or phone 8981 4137 and speak to Tara

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Engineering Technologists Hi, my name is Len Chappell and I’m your local divisional and national representative I’d just like to keep in touch with all of the Technologists in the Northern Division and let you all know what has been happening at the national level.

We’ve had two national meetings this year.

The first meeting in early April focused on the outcomes of the Year of the Engineering Team and ways we can keep promoting Technologists. There were a number of options put forward, the two favoured by most was to keep profiling Technologists in the local and national newsletters and in Engineers Australia magazine. The second was to ensure that Technologists are well represented in the divisional award nights in each State and Territory.

We also discussed in detail stage 1 competency requirements and articulation issues ie articulating from Technologist to Professional Engineer and from Associate grade to Technologist grade.

The second meeting held in early May was focused on the accreditation and competencies for Engineering Technologists. The Engineers Australia Accreditation board is updating the competency requirements for Professional Engineers, Technologists and Associates. We decided that it was very important for the Technologists to have a detailed input into the rewriting of this document to ensure that our competencies and roles in the engineering workforce is well defined and easily understood by all members of Engineers Australia.

There are only 9 or 10 Technologists in the NT and I am sup-

posed to be representing you at both a local divisional level and at a national level. We really haven’t had many meetings at a local level and I’m not sure whether you want to have face to face meetings. Please contact me and let me know if you would like some local meetings either at Engineers Australia office in town either lunch time or after work or in a local hotel somewhere .

There is one very important matter I would like you all to consider at the moment and that is nominations for a Technologist entrant or entrants in this year’s People in Engineering awards. It is very, very important that we have at least one entrant each year to help maintain a high profile within the engineering community or we run the risk of becoming obsolete. So please nominate yourself or another Technologist.

Finally, if you know any other people who may have suitable qualifications to become Technologists please ask them to get in contact with us.

If you would like to obtain chartered status or if you think you might have suitable qualifications to articulate to a higher grade please let us know and we will do everything we can to assist you.

If you have any ideas on how to increase our numbers or our profile please let me know as the more ideas we get the easier it becomes to promote us.

Please contact Bronwyn or Karen in the Engineers Australia office or email me at len.tcm@bigpond.net.au Regards Len Chappell

CALLING ALL UNDER 35 YEAR OLD ENGINEERS, TECHNOLOG TECHNOLOGIST, IST, ASSOCIATES OR STUDENTS!!!

YOUNG ENGINEERS AUSTRALIA NORTHERN DIVISION WANTS YOU. Now is the time to contribute to your organisation and get involved.

We have lots of opportunities from participation in events right through to working with the Young Engineers Australia Committee. Call Andrew or Adam for more information on how you can participate. Or attend the next monthly meeting.

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• Next major event is the Young Engineers Australia Annual Golf Day 23rd July Regular monthly meetings are held on the first Tuesday of each month at Lizards Bar at 5.30pm.

Andrew Gane Telephone 8947 4400 Adam James Telephone 8941-1678

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Email andrew.gane@douglaspartners.com.au Email adam@rfpeng.com

2009 Engineering Excellence Awards Have your say!

Peoples Choice Awards •

Desert Knowledge Australia Solar Centre - CAT Projects Pty Ltd

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Crowne Plaza Alice Spring—Solar Array - CAT Projects Pty Ltd Bonaparte High Pressure Natural Gas Pipeline - APA Group

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Darwin Waterfront Pedestrian Bridge—Macmahon Contractors Pty Ltd •

Arnhem Land Fibre Project—Telstra Networks & Services

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Works Section of the 1st Mentoring & Reconstruction Task Force Afghanistan—Australian Defence Forces

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Report for Nationally Significant Infrastructure for the Northern Territory—GHD Pty Ltd Bradshaw ICTC Towers—Macmahon Pty Ltd

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Leanyer Recreation Facility Upgrade—Stage 2—GHD Pty Ltd •

Power and Water Ben Hammond Centre—GHD Pty Ltd •

DCW Water Recreation Works—Sitzlers

Vote for your favourite entry at Casuarina Shopping Centre Amart Mall (outside House of Knives) From 12 July to the 19 July 2009 during opening hours Voting is open to everyone, members and non-members

Wave Pool Site Visit

YEAND—Gen X Engineers Australia staff and over 30 members enjoyed a site visit to the Darwin Convention Centre Wave Pool on Thursday 4 June.

Sam Hatzi, the Operational Site Manager for the Darwin Waterfront and Terry O’Neill, NT Government Representative for the Darwin Waterfront took everyone into the bowels of the pumping rooms and provided an insight into the engineering and mechanics of the wave, chlorination filtration systems. There are a total of 10 different wave movements that can be individually generated or at a press of a button all 10 can be made to work collectively.

Currently there are 400-600 people visiting the wave pool during the week with over 2,000 visiting throughout the weekend.

Friday night saw about 40 predominantly young people at the Larrakeyah Officers Mess for a trivia night. The event was organized by the Young Engineers with a view to showing the oldies how much they knew! Well there weren’t too many oldies there but those who were found that they didn’t know too much about movie tag lines or advertising slogans, demonstrating that young people watch far more TV than the rest of us! Some of us knew when Vegemite was made for the first time, this coming from the list of questions that potential Australians have to know to obtain citizenship!

Overall winner for the night was the team from GHD even though someone tried to nobble them in the last round with a fake list of answers! Well done to those who competed and next time we will have some other helpers to create the questions!

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2009 Golf Day & BBQ Engineers Young and OLD and anybody keen for a hit of golf are invited along to Young Engineers Australia’s annual golf Day! (Players don’t have to be part of your company or a member) Beginners also welcome

When: Thursday 23rd July 2009, Tee-off @ 1:00pm Registration for a 1:30 Shotgun start Where: Palmerston Golf Course How:

The day will be an Ambrose format (teams of 4)- Followed by BBQ and drinks afterwards

Why:

For your chance to win the Young Engineers Australia – Northern Division Golf Shield!

Cost:

$20 per member player ($30 non-member) includes green fees, BBQ and drinks afterwards. BYO clubs (hire clubs also available.)

—————————————————————————————————————REGISTRATION: 2009 Young Engineers Golf Day Team Name: Player 1: Player 2: Player 3: Player 4:

Name:__________________________________________________________________Number attending:____ Payment Method (circle which applies): Cheque (attached)/ Visa / MasterCard / Bankcard / Diners / American Express Amount $___________________Card Name:___________________________________________________________ Card Number: _ _ _ _ / _ _ _ _ /_ _ _ _ /_ _ _ _ Expiry Date: ___/___ Signature: ____________________________ Please fax this form to EA-Northern Div. (Fax: 8941 3449) before 17 July to register your team.

Calendar of Events Date

Event

Speaker/Venue

23rd July

Young Engineers Golf Day

Palmerston Golf Club

29th July

Technical Presentations Engineering Excellence Awards

Darwin City Council Function Room

3rd August

Inaugural Race Day - Engineering week

Darwin Turf Club, Fannie Bay

4th August

Launch of Engineering Week by Deputy Chief Minister

Parliament House

13th August

Women in Engineering Breakthrough Strategies Workshop

TBA

17th August

Science Week

TBA

18th September

Engineering Excellence Awards 2009

Darwin Convention Centre

12th—16th October

National Assessor’s Visit—Ewan Hazeldine

Engineers Australia

Sept/October

Sunchase

Alice Springs and Darwin

3rd December

Annual General Meeting

14 Shepherd Street, Darwin

Date

Conferences

Speaker/Venue

22-25 November 2009

3rd Australasian Engineering Heritage Conference

30 Nov - 3 December 2009 8-10 August 2010

32nd Hydrology and Water Resources Symposium 2009

University of Otago, New Zealand Newcastle City Hall, Newcastle

The 5th Civil Engineering Conference in the Asian Region and Australasian Structural Engineering Conference 2010

Sydney Convention & Exhibition Centre

!!OFFICE SPACE AVAILABLE!!

Office space has become available for rent within Engineers Australia Northern Division.

If you are looking for office space within the heart of Darwin City please give Karen a call on 8981 4137 or email her at krelph@engineersaustralia.org.au

Young Engineers Northern Division monthly meetings are held on the first Tuesday of each month at Lizards Bar, 5:30pm. All Young Engineers are welcome to come along and get involved.

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