The next meeting of the engineering heritage branch, Engineering Heritage Australia (Victoria), will be held on
| Speaker: | Dr Max Lay |
| Date: | Thursday, 27 June 2002 |
| Time: | 5.30 for 6.00 pm. |
| Location: | Auditorium, Ground Floor, IEAust Building,
21 Bedford Street, North Melbourne |
The talk will discuss the various underlying factors - technical, social, political - that determined metropolitan Melbourne's street and road layout.
It will also examine how those factors arose and what were their antecedents. Further it will explore how a few decisions can have major impacts. Roads are one of the strongest silver threads by which we can retrospectively observe a developing community and Dr Lay hopes to give the members a few new insights of early Melbourne.
Dr Max Lay is a Principal of Sinclair Knight Merz, consulting engineers, and has been Independent Reviewer for the Melbourne City Link Project from 1996 to the present.
He was the Executive Director of the then Australian Road Research Board from 1975 until he moved to a senior position at VicRoads in 1989. He is a Professorial Associate at the University of Melbourne.
Max is a Fellow of the Academy of Technological Sciences and the Chartered Institute of Transport, as well IEAust.
He is currently President of RACV and of the Australian Automobile Association.
| Presented By: | Engineering Heritage Australia (Victoria) | ||
| Cost: | Free of Charge | ||
| Registration: | Not required | ||