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 English AACR2 Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules Person created 2024-12-19 human Ken McInnes updated 2026-04-29 human https://www.eoas.info/biogs/P007570b.htm person Dempster Andrew Marsden Gresham AACR2 27 March 1899 30 October 1968 Place of Birth Esperance, Western Australia, Australia Place of Death late of Canterbury, Victoria, Australia Civil engineer Marsden Dempster, BScEng MCE ME LS CE HE AMIEAust MASCE, was Chief Civil Engineer, Commonwealth Department of Works and Housing from 1946, and was involved with the reconstruction of Darwin after the Second World War. Earlier, as an innovative bridge design engineer with the Country Roads Board of Victoria, between 1927 and 1942, he was associated with the pioneering use of electric arc welded bridge superstructures including the Sunday Creek Bridge (1930), the McKillops bridge over the Snowy River at Wulgulmerang (1931-1934); and other significant bridges including the Hoddle Bridge over the Yarra River (1938) and the Phillip Island suspension bridge (1940). He produced the book "Specification for the Design of Road Bridges" (1936), contributed many journal articles to the "Commonwealth engineer" and was a Councillor of the Victoria Division, Institution of Engineers Australia.

Associated engineering works:
* 1929 Pyke's Creek Reservoir bridge;
* 1930 Sunday Creek Bridge, Hume Highway, Seymour;
* 1931-32 and 1934-35 McKillops Bridge, over Snowy River, Wulgulmerang;
* 1934 Orbost bridge, over Snowy River;
* 1934 Centenary Bridge, road over rail, at Port Melbourne;
* 1936 Hoddle Bridge, Punt Road, Melbourne;
* 1937 Huntingdale Golf Course;
* 1940 Phillip Island suspension bridge;
* 1946 Reconstruction of Darwin.

1919 1919 Education - Bachelor of Science in Engineering (BScEng), University of Western Australia 1922 1922 Career event - Certificate of competency as a land surveyor, Victoria 1922 [No.194] 1922 1927 Career position - Assistant engineer, State Electricity Commission, Victoria [Morwell brown coal mine and power station] 1923 1923 Career event - Licensed Surveyor under the Land Surveyors Act 1923 [No.503] 1923 1923 Education - Bachelor of Civil Engineering (BCE), University of Melbourne 1924 1924 Career event - Granted Certificate of Qualification as Municipal Surveyor (CE), Local Government Act 1903 VIC 1926 1926 Career event - Associate Member (AMIEAust), Institution of Engineers Australia 1927 1942 Career position - Bridge engineer, Country Roads Board, Victoria 1928 1928 Education - Master of Civil Engineering (MCE), University of Melbourne 1928 1928 Award - Argus Scholarship, Civil Engineering, University of Melbourne (shared with A.C. Tregoning and R.H.A. Cochrane) 1936 1936 Publication - "Specification for the Design of Road Bridges", published 1942 1945 Career position - Engineering consultant, US Arrmy 1946 Career position - Chief Civil Engineer, Commonwealth Department of Works and Housing [Involved in the reconstruction of Darwin after WWII] Chapman, Wilfrid Dinsey (1891 - 1955)

Dempster and Chapman were both conferred with degree of Bachelor of Civil Engineering, 1923.

 Frazer, Leonard Thomas (Len) (1908 - 1968)

Dempster, then engineer, Country Roads Board Victoria, supported Len Frazer's application for AMIEAust 1937

 'Dempster, Andrew Marsden Gresham (Marsden)', in Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation, Centre for Transformative Innovation, Swinburne University of Technology Dempster, Andrew Marsden Gresham (Marsden) Swinburne University of Technology, Centre for Transformative Innovation Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Journal Article: Some notes on proportioning concrete (Discussions and communications) Vogan, H. J. (Dempster, M. G.) Some notes on proportioning concrete (Discussions and communications) 1931 Journal of the Institution of Engineers, Australia 3 5 170-171 Edited Book: Who's who in Australia 1950 Alexander, Joseph A. Who's who in Australia 1950 Melbourne Colorgravure Publications 1950 Thesis: Rigid framed bridge Dempster, M. G. Rigid framed bridge University of Melbourne 1928 Journal Article: Some impressions of engineering in Western Australia Dempster, M. G. Some impressions of engineering in Western Australia 1936 Commonwealth Engineer 23 10 309-312 Journal Article: Roller compacted concrete pavements Dempster, M. G. Roller compacted concrete pavements 1933 Commonwealth Engineer 21 1 26 Journal Article: The Snowy River flood of January, 1934 Dempster, M. G.; Ozanne, W. A. The Snowy River flood of January, 1934 1934 Commonwealth Engineer 21 8 227-234 Journal Article: Hoddle Bridge, Melbourne, design and construction details Dempster, M. G.; Ozanne, W. A. Hoddle Bridge, Melbourne, design and construction details 1939 Commonwealth Engineer 26 284-291 Book: Specification for the Design of Road Bridges Dempster, M. G. Specification for the Design of Road Bridges Melbourne Tait Publishing Company 1936 Journal Article: Road bridge over Snowy River, Woolgoolmerang, Victoria Dempster, M. G. Road bridge over Snowy River, Woolgoolmerang, Victoria 1932 Commonwealth Engineer 20 2 33-38 Journal Article: Economics in concrete design and practice Dempster, M. G. Economics in concrete design and practice 1933 Commonwealth Engineer 20 8 233-240 Journal Article: Continuous beams and moment distribution Dempster, A. M. G. Continuous beams and moment distribution 1956 Journal of the Institution of Engineers, Australia 28 4-5 108 Journal Article: Atmospheric corrosion of structural steel and paint protection. Part I Introduction Dempster, A. M. G. Atmospheric corrosion of structural steel and paint protection. Part I Introduction 1941 Journal of the Institution of Engineers, Australia 13 9 221-222