Lay, Maxwell Gordon (1936 - )

Summary

Maxwell Lay was Executive Director of the Australian Road Research Board before moving to VicRoads in 1989. He later became an independent Reviewer for the Melbourne City Link Project, Principal of Sinclair Knight Merz, Professorial Associate at the University of Melbourne and Chairman of the Royal Automobile Club of Victoria.

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Chronology

1958

Education - Bachelor of Civil Engineering (BCE), University of Melbourne

1961

Education - Master of Engineering Science (MEngSc), University of Melbourne

1964

Career position - Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Lehigh University

1965 - 1968

Career position - Engineer-in-charge of major steel structures, State Electricity Commission of Victoria

1968 - 1975

Career position - Engineering Research Manager, BHP

1975 - 1988

Career position - Executive Director, Australian Road Research Board

1978

Career position - Member (Victoria), Board of the General College of Engineering, Institution of Engineers Australia

1980

Award - W. H. Warren Award 1980, Civil Engineering College, Institution of Engineers Australia

1985 - 1987

Award - Fellow, Australian Academy of Technological Sciences (FTS)

1987

Award - Fellow, Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering (FTSE) [Awarded by AATS 1985]

1989 - 1993

Career position - Director, Quality and Technical, VicRoads

1992

Publication - Book: Ways of the world : a history of the world's roads and of the vehicles that used them

1994 - 1996

Career position - Director of Major Projects, VicRoads

1995

Award - Transport Medal, Civil College, Institution of Engineers Australia

1995 - 1996

Career position - President, Royal Society of Victoria

1996 - 2003

Career position - Independent Reviewer, City Link Project

1 Jan 2001

Award - Centenary Medal - for service to Australian society in civil and structural engineering

2003

Publication - Book: Melbourne miles : the story of Melbourne's roads

2003 - 2010

Career position - Director, ConnectEast [Eastlink project]

13 Jun 2005

Award - Member of the Order of Australia (AM) - for service to engineering, particularly through leadership in the delivery of quality road infrastructure and the development of new contract management processes, and as an educator and historian.

2014

Award - Peter Nicol Russell Memorial Medal - Career Achievement Award in Engineering. Institution of Engineers Australia

2018

Publication - Book: The harnessing of power : how 19th century transport innovators transformed the way the world operates

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Published resources

Books

• Lay, M. G., Ways of the world : a history of the world's roads and of the vehicles that used them (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1992), 401 pp. Details
• Lay, M. G., Melbourne miles : the story of Melbourne's roads (Melbourne, Vic.: Australian Scholarly Publishing, 2003), 301 pp. Details
• Lay, M. G., Strange ways (Crows Nest (N.S.W.): EA Books, 2010), 254 pp. Details
• Lay, Maxwell Gordon, The harnessing of power : how 19th century transport innovators transformed the way the world operates (Newcatle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2018), 371 pp. Details

Book Sections

• Lay, M. G., 'Section - Roads' in Chapter 6: Engineering Construction and Building, John Holland, ed. (Melbourne: Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering, 1988), pp. 344-349, https://www.austehc.unimelb.edu.au/tia/346.html. Details
• Lay, Max, 'Before the CRB - Setting the scene' in VicRoads centenary : keeping Victorians connected for 100 years. 1913-2013, Darragh O'Keeffe, ed. (Bondi Junction, NSW: Faircount Media Group, 2013), pp. 16-21. Details

Conference Papers

• Lay, M. G., 'The history of roads in Australia', in 200 years of transport - what future?: a mini symposium, Brisbane. 28 September 1988 (Brisbane, Queensland: Institution of Engineers, Australia. Queensland Division, 1988), p. 14.. Details
• Lay, M. G., 'Establishing Engineering Heritage through Citation Searching', in Fourth National Conference on Engineering Heritage 1988: Preprints of Papers (Barton, Australian Capital Territory: Institution of Engineers, Australia, 1988), pp. 64-67.. https://search.informit.org/doi/10.3316/informit.623738120081410. Details
• Lay, M. G., '20th Century Victorian Engineers - Case studies of engineers as leaders in Victoria from 1890 to 1990', in Fourth International Conference on Engineering Management, 1994: Preprints (Barton, ACT: Institution of Engineers Australia, 1994), pp. 7-12., https://search.informit.org/doi/10.3316/informit.220235441294955. Details
• Lay, M. G., 'The Inadequate Impact of Federation on the Australian Land Transport System', in Eleventh National Conference on Engineering Heritage: Federation Engineering a Nation; Proceedings (Barton, Australian Capital Territory: Institution of Engineers, Australia, 2001), pp. 13-18., https://search.informit.org/doi/10.3316/informit.520343762569658. Details
• Lay, Max, 'The harnessing of power - How 19th century transport innovators transformed the way the world operates', in Engineering Heritage Victoria, Speakers Programme (2019)., https://www.engineersaustralia.org.au/event/2019/01/harnessing-power-how-19th-century-transport-innovators-transformed-way-world-operates. Details

Journal Articles

• Lay, M. G., 'Elastic buckling and structural reality', Civil Engineering Transactions, CE22 (1980), 186-192. Details
• Lay, M. G., 'History of Australian Roads', Accounting History Newsletter, 12 (Winter) (1986), 23-25. Details

Reports

• Institution of Engineers Australia, Annual Report 1980 [Sixty-first Annual Report] (1981), 16 pp. 'Institution Awards - W.H. Warren Medal 1980 awarded to Dr M G Lay, FIEAust', p.10. Details
• Institution of Engineers Australia, Annual Report 2002 (2003), 20 pp. 'Awarded Honorary Fellow, 2002', p.16. Details
• Lay, M. G., History of Australian Roads (Australian Roads Research Board, 1984), 35 pp. Details

Resources

• 'Lay, M G (19361014-)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-497475. Details

Resource Sections

• ARRB Transport Research Ltd, 'M G Lay Library', 2000, http://www.arrb.com.au/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=38. Details

Theses

• Lay, M. G., 'The behaviour of triangulated redundant steel trusses', MEngSc, University of Melbourne, 1960, 133 pp. Details

See also

• Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering, Technology in Australia 1788-1988, Online edn, Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre, Melbourne, 3 May 2000, http://www.austehc.unimelb.edu.au/tia/index_l.html. Details
• Draper, W.J. ed., Who's who in Australia 1983 (Melbourne, Victoria: Herald and Weekly Times Ltd, 1983), 960 pp. Pages 510-511. Details
• Vines, Gary, National Trust Study of Victoria's Rail and Masonry Bridges. Part 1 - Thematic History, Analysis and Recommendations (National Trust of Australia (Victoria), 2011), 253 pp, https://www.academia.edu/5781078/National_Trust_Study_of_Victoria_s_Masonry_Metal_and_Concrete_Rail_Bridges_and_Masonry_Road_Bridges_. Details
• Vines, Gary; McInnes, Ken, Metal Road Bridges in Victoria: Part 1 - History of Metal Road Bridges in Victoria (Melbourne: National Trust of Australia (Victoria), 2003), 126 pp, https://www.academia.edu/22073573/Metal_Road_Bridges_in_Victoria_Part_1_HISTORY_OF_METAL_ROAD_BRIDGES_IN_VICTORIA_National_Trust_of_Australia_Victoria_. Details