Engineering Heritage Australia (EHA) (1975 - )

Summary

Engineering Heritage Australia (EHA) is a special interest group of Engineers Australia and is it's peak heritage body. The EHA National Committee is comprised of representatives from each of the Engineers Australia Division heritage groups.

Details

The EHA National Committee:
- represents Engineers Australia nationally on engineering and industrial heritage matters;
- develops policies and guidelines about engineering heritage and its conservation;
- manages the Australia-wide Australian Engineering Heritage Recognition Program, the Australian Engineering Oral History Program, and the biennial Engineering Heritage Conference;
- publishes the EHA Magazine and
- creates and maintains an awareness of the value of engineering heritage within the community and the profession.

Chronology

1975 - 1977

Event - Ad hoc network of Engineering Relics and History sub-commitees, at Division level, Institution of Engineers Australia

1977 - 1979

Event - Sub-committee on Historical Engineering Relics, General College of Engineering, Institution of Engineers Australia

1979 - 1990

Event - National Panel for Engineering Heritage, General College of Engineering, Institution of Engineers Australia

1990 - 2000

Event - National Committee on Engineering Heritage, General College of Engineering, Institution of Engineers Australia

2001 -

Event - Engineering Heritage Australia, a Special Interest Group, Engineers Australia

Related entries

Published resources

Books

• Cole, Bruce, Australia's 500 large dams: conserving water on a dry continent (Carnegie, VIC: Australian National Committee on Large Dams, 2003), 105 pp. National Committee on Engineering Heritage had oversight of the Heritage Dams project, on which this book is based. Details
• Cumming, D. A,; Moulds, A.; Wrigley, L. J., A bibliography of Australian engineering history and heritage, prepared from the database ENGINE (Barton, Australian Capital Territory: Institution of Engineers, Australia, 1991), 74 pp. Details
• O'Connor, Colin, How to look at bridges : a guide to the study of Australian historic bridges (Barton, Australian Capital Territory: Institution of Engineers, Australia., 1983), 50 pp. The National Panel for Engineering Heritage had oversight of the Historic Bridges project. Details
• O'Connor, Colin, Register of Australian Historic Bridges (Barton, Australian Capital Territory: Institution of Engineers, Australia, 1983), 79 pp. The National Panel for Engineering Heritage had oversight of the Historic Bridges project. Details
• O'Connor, Colin, Spanning Two Centuries: Historic Bridges of Australia (St. Lucia, Queensland: University of Queensland Press, 1985), 225 pp. National Panel for Engineering Heritage had oversight of the Historic Bridges project, on which this book is based. Details

Conference Proceedings

• Second National Conference on Engineering Heritage 'The Value of Engineering Heritage': Preprints of Papers. (Barton, Australian Capital Territory: Institution of Engineers, Australia, 1985), 110 pp. https://search.informit.org/doi/book/10.3316/informit.0858252503. Details
• Third National Conference on Engineering Heritage 1986: Practices and Responsibilities of Engineering Heritage; Preprints of Papers (Barton, Australian Capital Territory: Institution of Engineers, Australia, 1986), 75 pp. https://search.informit.org/doi/book/10.3316/informit.0858253143. Details
• Fourth National Conference on Engineering Heritage 1988: Preprints of Papers (Barton, Australian Capital Territory: Institution of Engineers, Australia, 1988), 133 pp. Details
• Fifth National Conference on Engineering Heritage 1990: Interpreting Engineering Heritage; Preprints of Papers (Perth, Western Australia: Institution of Engineers, Australia, 1990), 139 pp. https://search.informit.org/doi/book/10.3316/informit.0909421234. Details
• Sixth National Conference on Engineering Heritage, 1992, Hobart 5-7 October 1992: Preprints of Papers (Hobart, Tasmania: Institution of Engineers, Australia, Tasmania Division, 1992), 140 pp. https://search.informit.org/doi/book/10.3316/informit.0858255677. Details
• First Australasian Conference on Engineering Heritage 1994: Old Ways in a New Land; Preprints of Papers (Barton, Australian Capital Territory: Institution of Engineers, Australia, 1994), 209 pp, https://search.informit.org/doi/book/10.3316/informit.0858256223. Details
• First International and Eighth Australian Engineering Heritage Conference 1996: Shaping Our Future; Proceedings (Barton, Australian Capital Territory: Institution of Engineers, Australia, 1996), 210 pp, https://search.informit.org/doi/book/10.3316/informit.0858256614. Details
• Sustaining Heritage: Second International and Thirteenth National Engineering Heritage Conference and NSW Railways Seminar (Sydney, New South Wales: Engineers Australia, 2005), 268 pp, https://search.informit.org/doi/book/10.3316/informit.085825820X. Details
• Third Australasian Engineering Heritage Conference. Engineering in the Development of a Region: History and Heritage. Dunedin 22-25 Nov 2009 (Institution of Professional Engineers New Zealand, 2009), 365 pp, https://www.engineeringnz.org/documents/1274/Proceedings_of_the_Third_Australasian_Conference_on_Engineering_Heritage_Dunedin_2009.pdf. Details
• 16th Engineering Heritage Australia Conference: Conserving Our Heritage - Make a Difference! (Barton, Australian Capital Territory: Engineers Australia, 2011), 551 pp, https://search.informit.org/doi/book/10.3316/informit.9780858258877. Details
• 17th Engineering Heritage Conference: Canberra 100 - Building the Capital, Building the Nation (Barton, Australian Capital Territory: Engineers Australia, 2013), 189 pp, https://search.informit.org/doi/book/10.3316/informit.9781922107121. Details
• Proceedings of the 4th Australasian Engineering Heritage Conference. Engineering, Heritage and Nature: Finding the Right Balance. 24-26 Nov 2014, Christchurch, New Zealand (Wellington, NZ: Institution of Professional Engineers New Zealand, 2014), 158 pp, https://www.engineeringnz.org/documents/1275/Proceedings_of_the_Fourth_Australasian_Conference_on_Engineering_Heritage_Chri_FP8ZEMh.pdf. Details
• From the Past to the Future: 18th Australian Engineering Heritage Conference 2015 [Newcastle] (Barton, Australian Capital Territory: Engineers Australia, 2015), 230 pp, https://search.informit.org/doi/book/10.3316/informit.9781922107435. Details
• Australasian Engineering Heritage Conference: AEHC 2022 (Barton, ACT: Engineers Australia, 2023), 133 pp, https://search.informit.org/doi/10.3316/informit.9781925627695. Details
• Eleventh National Conference on Engineering Heritage: Federation Engineering a Nation; Proceedings edited by Baker, Keith (Barton, Australian Capital Territory: Institution of Engineers, Australia, 2001), 262 pp, https://search.informit.org/doi/book/10.3316/informit.1740922155. Details
• 19th Australasian engineering heritage conference: putting water to work: steam power, river navigation and water supply edited by Engineers Australia and Engineering Heritage Australia (Barton, Australian Capital Territory: Engineers Australia, 2017), 536 pp. Details
• Second Australasian Conference on Engineering Heritage, Auckland, 14-16 February, 2000: Proceedings edited by Lowe, P. G.; Hill, R .F. (Auckland, New Zealand: Institution of Professional Engineers New Zealand, 2000), 248 pp, https://search.informit.org/doi/book/10.3316/informit.0980960352. Details
• 9th National Conference on Engineering Heritage: Proceedings edited by Martin, Ray L (Melbourne, Vic.: Institution of Engineers, Australia, 1998), 213 pp, https://search.informit.org/doi/book/10.3316/informit.1858256843. Details
• Engineering Heritage Matters: Conference Papers of the 12th National Conference on Engineering Heritage, Toowoomba, 29 Sept to 1 Oct 2003 edited by Sheridan, Norman (Barton, Australian Capital Territory: Engineers Australia, 2003), 183 pp, https://search.informit.org/doi/book/10.3316/informit.064642775X. Details
• The protection of the engineering heritage: Brisbane 9-12 May 1982: preprints of papers edited by Whitmore, R. L. (Barton, Australian Capital Territory: Institution of Engineers, Australia, 1982), 102 pp. Details

Edited Books

• Cole, Bruce ed., Dam Technology in Australia 1850-1999 (Penrith NSW: Australian National Committee on Large Dams, 2000), 248 pp. National Committee on Engineering Heritage had oversight of the Heriatge Dams project, on which this book is based. Details

Journal Articles

• 'Annual Report of the Colleges [1979]', Journal of the Institution of Engineers, Australia, 52 (4) (1980), 40-45. 'General College of Engineering - National Panel for Engineering Heritage. Now a National Panel, Prof Ray Whitmore, chairman', p.45. Details
• 'Annual Report of the Colleges [1980]', Journal of the Institution of Engineers, Australia, 53 (3) (1981), 38-43. 'General College of Engineering - National Panel for Engineering Heritage - First complete year of operation as a National Panel', p.43. Details
• 'Second Australasian Engineering Heritage Conference - Selected Papers (2000 : Auckland)', Transactions of Multi-disciplinary Engineering, Australia, GE26 (2002), https://search.informit.org/toc/10.3316/tmdea.VolGE26_2002. Details
• '11th National Engineering Heritage Conference - Selected Papers (2001 : Canberra)', Australian Journal of Multi-disciplinary Engineering, 2 (1) (2004), https://search.informit.org/toc/ajmde/2/1. Details
• '12th National Engineering Heritage Conference - Selected Papers (2003 : Toowoomba)', Australian Journal of Multi-disciplinary Engineering, 3 (1) (2005), https://search.informit.org/toc/ajmde/3/1. Details
• 'Inaugural Award of Merit recipients. [2005 - Rob Breen and Henry McFie]', Engineers Australia, 77 (2) (2005), 59. Details
• '14th National Engineering Heritage Conference - Selected Papers (2007 : Perth)', Australian Journal of Multi-disciplinary Engineering, 6 (1) (2008), 128, https://search.informit.org/toc/ajmde/6/1. Details
• '3rd Australasian Engineering Heritage Conference - Selected Papers (2009 : Dunedin)', Australian Journal of Multi-disciplinary Engineering, 8 (1) (2010), 96, https://search.informit.org/toc/ajmde/8/1. Details
• Institution of Engineers Australia, 'Annual Report - Colleges [1978]', Journal of the Institution of Engineers, Australia, 51 (4) (1979), 33-37. 'General College of Engineering - Sub-committee of Engineering History and Heritage', p.37. Details