Borrie, Edwin Fullarton (1894 - 1968)

Summary

Edwin Borrie MC MCE MIEAust, graduated from the University of Melbourne with first-class honours in civil engineering. He served with the British Army's Royal Engineers as an officer during World War I and was posted in France and then Egypt. Upon his return to Australia, he joined the Tasmanian Hydro-Electric Department and assisted with the design and construction of the Great Lake Dam. He was then employed by the State Electricity Commission of Victoria in Yallourn. In 1924 Borrie became the first engineer of main drains for the Metropolitan Board of Works and as Chief Engineer of sewerage (1929-1950), was in charge of managing Melbourne's sewerage infrastructure. He was seconded to the Allied Works Council from 1941 to 1944 as director of engineering. In 1950 Borrie became Chief Planner in the Board of Works with an interest in town planning. He travelled to Los Angeles and worked on a city development plan for Melbourne upon his return. This plan was published in 1954 and met critical acclaim. Borrie was awarded the Sir James Barrett medal by the Town and Country Planning Association of Victoria.

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Chronology

1915

Career position - Lieutenant, Melbourne University Rifles

1915

Career event - Student Member, Victorian Institute of Engineers

1915

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

1916

Award - The "Argus" Civil engineering Scholarship, University of Melbourne

1916 - 1917

Military service - Second Lieutenant, Corps of Royal Engineers, British Army

1917 - 1919

Military service - Lieutenant, Corps of Royal Engineers, British Army

1918

Award - Military Cross (MC)

1919

Career event - Foundation Associate Member (AMIEAust), Institution of Engineers Australia

1924 - 1929

Career position - Engineer, Main Drains, Melbourne and Metropolitan Board of Works

1927

Education - Master of Civil Engineering (MCE), University of Melbourne

1929 - 1950

Career position - Chief engineer, Sewerage, Engineer, Melbourne and Metropolitan Board of Works

1935

Career position - Consulting Engineer, Auckland Drainage Board, New Zealand

1937

Career event - Member (MIEAust), Institution of Engineers Australia

1941 - 1944

Military service - Director of Engineering, Allied Works Council

1947 - 1948

Career position - Chairman, Melbourne Division, Institution of Engineers Australia

1950 - 1959

Career position - Chief Planner, Melbourne and Metropolitan Board of Works

Related entries

Published resources

Book Sections

• Rasmussen, Carolyn; Dingle, Tony, 'Borrie, Edwin Fullarton (1894-1968), civil engineer and town planner' in Australian dictionary of biography, volume 13: 1940 - 1980 A-De, John Ritchie, ed. (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1993), pp. 223-224. http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A130254b.htm. Details

Journal Articles

• Borrie, E. F., 'Design, Construction and Operation of the Melbourne Sewerage System', Journal of the Institution of Engineers, Australia, 10 (1938), 351. Details
• Borrie, E. F., 'The Future Population of Melbourne', Journal of the Institution of Engineers, Australia, 17 (1945), 150, Discussion p.227. Details
• Borrie, E. F., 'Problems in the Planning of the Future Melbourne Sewerage System', Journal of the Institution of Engineers, Australia, 20 (1948), 63. Details
• East, L. R. (editor), 'One hundred years of engineering in Victoria.', Journal of the Institution of Engineers, Australia, 6 (10) (1934), 353-420. 'The Sewerage and Main Drainage Systems of Melbourne' pp.383-384. Details

Reports

• Borrie, E. F., The Future Population of Melbourne : report presented to the Chairman and Commissioners of the Melbourne and Metropolitan Board of Works (Melbourne: Melbourne and Metropolitan Board of Works, 1944), 35 pp. Details
• Borrie, E. F., The future urban boundaries of Melbourne and the distribution of population therein : a study in connection with the investigation of proposals for the amplification of the Melbourne Sewerage system : report / presented to the Chairman and Commissioners of the Melbourne and Metropolitan Board of Works (Melbourne: Melbourne and Metropolitan Board of Works, 1947), 22 pp. Details

Resources

• Wikidata, http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q21537197. Details
• 'Borrie, Edwin Fullarton (18940417-19680827)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-1470785. Details

Resource Sections

• Rasmussen, Carolyn, 'From the Significant to the Indispensible: The Working Lives of Seventeen Figures in the History of the Melbourne Metropolitan Board of Works', in Australian dictionary of biography, Australian National University, 2019, http://adb.anu.edu.au/essay/20. Details