Published Resources Details
Journal Article
- Title
- King Street Bridge Project
- In
- Journal of the Institution of Engineers, Australia
- Imprint
- vol. 32, no. 9, Sep 1960, pp. 167-182
- Description
This paper, No.1437, originated in the Melbourne Division of The Institution.
The papers by Mr. Darwin, Mr. Mathieson and Mr. Wilson were presented before a General Meeting of the Division on 19th May, 1959, and Mr. George's paper was presented before a meeting of the Highway and Traffic Engineering Branch in November, 1959.Mr. D. V. Darwin MM MCE MIEAust, is the Chairman of the Country Roads Board, Victoria.
Mr. H. P. George AMIEAust was formerly Traffic & Location Engineer and is now Dandenong Divisional Engineer.
Mr. J. Mathieson MCE MIEAust is Chief Engineer and Mr. C. A. Wilson BCE AMIEAust is Senior Designing Engineer, all of the Country Roads Board, Victoria.
This paper is in four parts:
* Part I - Development of project, by D. V. Darwin;
* Part II - Traffic engineering aspects, by H. P. George;
* Part III - Specification for tendering, by J, Mathieson;
* Part IV - Foundation investigations, requirements and their evaluation, by C. A. Wilson.- Abstract
This paper is an account of:
(a) the reasons, briefly stated, why the project was initiated;
(b) the broad features of the project;
(c) the procedure involved in preliminary investigations;
(d) the basis adopted for invitation of tenders; and
(e) the current organisation of the work.
