Len T Frazer, MIEAust, was the City Engineer, City of Melbourne and helped to plan the facilities for the 1956 Olympic Games. He was a pioneer in highway and traffic engineering in Australia, and later as a consulting engineer, led the development of the major suburban shopping centres at Chadstone, Northland, Southland and Eastland; the Melbourne Transportation Study in conjunction with Wilbur Smith; as well as other major projects including the layout of Latrobe University, and Woden district in Canberra.
A few weeks before his sudden death, his firm, Len T. Frazer & Associates was merged with the firm of Scott & Furphy in which he became a partner and associate director.
Associated major projects included:
* Macaulay Stormwater pumping station;
* Degraves Street Subway, Melbourne;
* Olympic Games facilities, Melbourne;
* Planning provisions to grade separate pedestrians from traffic in the CBD;
* Traffic analysis, sitework design and supervision for Chadstone, Northland, Southland, and Eastland shopping centres, initially liaising with the American planner Victor Gruen;
* Ring road, Ballarat;
* Playford Bridge, Prairie Bridge and Gorge Road, Adelaide Hills (1962);
* Sitework design and supervision, GMH Test tracks at Lang Lang;
* Traffic analysis, sitework design and supervision of Master plan for La Trobe University;
* Transportation Study for Melbourne, with Wilbur Smith and Associates;
* Traffic analysis and sitework design for Woden District Centre, Canberra for NCDC;
* Traffic analysis and planning of the Freeway network for Canberra;
* Highway and freeway design for Country Roads Board;
* Sitework design for many neighbourhoods in Canberra, for NCDC;
* Master plan for Box Hill Shopping Centre, including proposals for undergrounding the railway station;
* Carpark and road design for Tullamarine Airport.
1924
1926
Education - Studied Diploma Course, Melbourne Working Men's College
1926
1927
Career position - Pupillage, Messrs Woodcock and McCormack
1927
1928
Career position - Survey Assistant, State Electricity Commission [under Ralph Alec Hunt, DSO, BCE, Foundation.AMIEAust AssocMInstCE]
1928
1932
Career position - Pupillage, Melbourne City Council [under Ronald Melville Scott BE AssocMInstCE, MIEAust; Percy Stanley Robinson CE AMIEAust]
1928
1934
Career position - Junior Engineering Assistant, City engineer's Department, Melbourne City Council
1932
1932
Career event - Certificate of Competency (no.580) Municipal Surveyors Board [Feb 1932]
1934
1936
Career position - Engineering Assistant, City engineer's Department, Melbourne City Council
1936
1937
Career position - Senior Engineering Assistant, City engineer's Department, Melbourne City Council [wood block, concrete, asphalt, penetration macadam roadways. Macaulay Stormwater pumping station, South Kensington swamp reclamation, works at City abattoirs]
1937
1937
Career event - Associate Member (AMIEAust), Institution of Engineers Australia
1940
1945
Military service - Second World War. Major, Royal Australian Engineers [Served n the Middle East and the Pacific]
1948
1953
Career position - Deputy City Engineer, Melbourne City Council [under P.S. Robinson, City Engineer. Projects: Degraves Street Subway, mechanisation of laying and construction of asphalt roads.]
1953
1956
Career position - City Engineer, Melbourne City Council [Responsible for establishing and directing a Traffic Engineering section; for all roads, bridges, street cleansing, garbage collection and disposal, abattoirs works, and workshops. over £1,000,000 per annum. Engineer adviser to and member of the construction committee for Olympic Games. Directly responsible for design and supervision of Velodrome, athletic stadium, and football oval at Olympic Park, and consultant for all other projects.]
1956
1958
Career position - Consulting engineer, own practice Len T Frazer and Associates. [Civil engineering works, carried out include: For municipalities: Survey, design and supervision of Private streets, roads and drainage works; drive-in theatres. For contractors: assistance in preparation of tenders and advice on construction methods (King Street bridge tender £2,750,000); For private clients: private street design and supervision, traffic and planning schemes; Also consultant Town Planner.
1958
1958
Career event - Member (MIEAust), Institution of Engineers Australia
1958
1968
Career position - Director, Len T Frazer and Associates, Consulting engineers
1968
1968
Career event - Associate Director, Scott and Furphy Consulting Group, when Len T Frazer and Associates, became part of the Group