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) completed

1961

Education - Master of Engineering Science (MEngSc) completed

1964

Career position - Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) completed

1965 - 1968

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

1968 - 1975

Career position - Engineering Research Manager at BHP

1975 - 1988

Career position - Executive Director of the 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 - Quality and Technical, VicRoads

1994 - 1996

Career position - Director of Major Projects at VicRoads

1995

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

1995 - 1996

Career position - President, Royal Society of Victoria

2001

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

13 June 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

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Published resources

Books

• Lay, M. G., Strange ways (Crows Nest (N.S.W.): EA Books, 2010), 254 pp. Details
• Lay, M.G., Melbourne miles : the story of Melbourne's roads (Melbourne, Vic.: Australian Scholarly Publishing, 2003), 301 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

Conference Papers

• 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., '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., '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., '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

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
• 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