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Alan Levy
Grand designs and movie-making Alan Levy is a civil engineer whose colourful career spans four continents and includes grand designs such as the Sydney Opera House and forays into film-making.
PHOTO: Sydney Opera House Getty IMAGES
By Deborah Minors
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lan Levy graduated from Wits in 1956, married Witsie Jeanette Davis in 1959 and then sailed to London, where he landed a job as a principal engineer. Eighteen months later, on the eve of the couple’s departure to Canada, the head of design firm Ove Arup & Partners
persuaded Levy to accept the position of resident engineer managing construction of the Sydney Opera House (of which Sir Jack Zunz, a Wits Engineering alumnus, was the principal structural designer).
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