Colin Crisp Award (2001 - )

Summary

The Colin Crisp Award is a project based award given for excellence: in the conservation and recording of items of heritage significance; in recording engineering accomplishment and the development of technology; or in education and raising awareness in engineering heritage.

It was originally known as the Colin Crisp Engineering Heritage Excellence Award, presented by the Sydney Division, Engineers Australia. Since 2005 it has been awarded by Engineering Heritage Australia (EHA), a national committee of Engineers Australia, and is usually presented annually, except when in the opinion of the EHA Board, there is no worthy nomination.

The Colin Crisp Award perpetuates the memory of Colin Francis Correll Crisp (1928 - 1991), who was a structural engineer well known for his work in the conservation of heritage structures.

Details

The criteria to which the judging panel will refer in assessing entries may include, but are not limited to:

* For Conservation Projects
- Excellence in engineering heritage, including adherence to the principles of the Burra Charter or other relevant accepted heritage practices;
- Pertinence of the solution;
- Benefit to the community;
- Originality, innovation and ingenuity of the solution;
- Use of sound engineering practice and principles.

* For Documentation Projects
- Excellence in engineering heritage, including adherence to the principles of the Burra Charter or other relevant accepted heritage practices;
- Pertinence of the solution;
- Benefit to the community;
- Originality, innovation and ingenuity of the solution.

Related entries

Published resources

Books

• Baker, Keith, A Century of Canberra Engineering (Barton, Australian Capital Territory: Engineers Australia, Canberra Division, 2013), 292 pp. '2013 Colin Crisp Award - Winner - Documentation Project'. Details
• Chambers, Don (Donald), Wooden wonders : Victoria's timber bridges (Flemington, Vic.: Hyland House, 2006), 207 pp. '2007 Colin Crisp Award - Highly Commended Award - Documentation Project'. Details
• Hartley, Richard G., River of steel: a history of Western Australian goldfields and agricultural water supply, 1903 - 2003 (Bassendean, W.A.: Access Press, 2007), 522 pp. '2009 Colin Crisp Award - Winner - Documentation Project'. Details
• Jehan, David, Tulloch: a history of Tulloch engineers & manufacturers: Pyrmont & Rhodes, 1883-1974 (Matraville, NSW: Eveleigh Press, 2015), 296 pp. '2015 Colin Crisp Award - Winner - Documentation Project'. Details
• Jehan, David, Hudson Brothers: a history of Hudson Brothers Carpenters, Engineers and Manufacturers, 1866 to 1898: the foundation of Clyde Engineering (Matraville, N.S.W.: Eveleigh Press, 2019), 256 pp. '2019 Colin Crisp Award - Highly Commended Award - Documentation Project'. Details
• Phippen, Bill, The Hawkesbury River railway bridges (Redfern, NSW: Australian Railway Historical Society, New South Wales Division, 2018), 336 pp. '2019 Colin Crisp Award - Winner - Documentation Project'. Details