Gutteridge, Alan Gordon (Gordon) (1892 - 1942)

Summary

Gordon Gutteridge, BCE MSc MIEAust, was the Director, Division of Public Health Engineering, Commonwealth Department of Public Health from 1924 to 1928, and a consulting engineer specialising in water supply and sewerage schemes from 1928 until his death in 1942. Through these roles he had a major influence on public health and successfully guided the design and construction of major town water supply and sewerage schemes throughout Australia, that continue to provide on-going public health benefits. In 1939, he partnered with Gerald Haskins and Geoff Davey - the Sydney consulting engineering partnership of Haskins and Davey - to form the major firm Gutteridge, Haskins and Davey (GHD).

Details

Associated Works:
* Deloraine water supply (1924);
* Royal Commission on sanitation, Victoria (1926);
* Port Moresby water supply and sewage (1926);
* Royal Commission of Inquiry into the Brisbane Water Supply (1927);
* Glenelg sewerage scheme (c1930);
* Warrnambool sewerage scheme;
* Devonport sewerage scheme;
* Abattoir, Wangaratta.

Chronology

1914 - 1918

Military service - First World War. Sergeant, Canadian army [Served in Bermuda and France. German POW]

1921

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

1921 - 1922

Career position - Engineer, Melbourne Harbor Trust

1922 - 1923

Award - Rockefeller Scholarship, Post graduate studies in Sanitary engineering (Harvard)

1923

Career position - Assistant to Director, Division of Public Health Engineering, Commonwealth Department of Health [Assistant to Colonel Longley]

1923

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

1923

Education - Masters of Science (MSc) Sanitary engineering, Harvard University

1924

Career event - Report on the water supply for Deloraine, Tasmania

c. 1924 - 1928

Career position - Director, Division of Public Health Engineering, Commonwealth Department of Public Health

1926

Career position - Report on Port Moresby - water supply, sewage treatment and mosquito control

1926 - 1927

Career position - Chairman, Royal Commission on Sanitation, Parliament of Victoria

1927

Career event - Chairman, First Commonwealth Conference on Public Health Engineering

1927 - 1928

Career event - Commissioner, Royal Commission of Inquiry into Brisbane's Water Supply, Parliament of Queensland

1928 - 1939

Career position - Consulting engineer, specialising in water and sewerage schemes

1929 -

Career position - Councillor, City of Kew

c. 1930 -

Career position - Design of Glenelg sewerage scheme, South Australia

1933

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

1933 - 1934

Career position - Mayor, City of Kew

1939 - 1942

Career position - Partner, Gutteridge, Haskins and Davy, consulting engineers

1939 - 1942

Career position - Wartime work - design and construction of camps, training schools and plants

Related entries

Published resources

Books

• Arneil, Stan Foch, A Firm Foundation: The Story of Gutteridge Haskins and Davey, Consulting Engineers 1928 -1988 (Railway Square, NSW: Gutteridge Haskins and Davey, 1988), xiii, 288 pp. Details

Book Sections

• Gutteridge, A. G., 'The history of the Brisbane Water Supply. [Appendix 1]' in Report of the Royal Commission of Inquiry into the Brisbane Water Supply, A. G. Gutteridge, ed. (Brisbane: Government Printer, 1928), pp. 6-9. https://www.parliament.qld.gov.au/Work-of-the-Assembly/Tabled-Papers/docs/2428T1S3/2428t1003.pdf. Details

Conference Papers

• Gutteridge, A. Gordon, 'Presidential address', in Proceedings of the First Commonwealth Conference on Public Health Engineering, Melbourne, 19th - 27th September, 1927 (1928), pp. vii-xviii.. Details

Conference Proceedings

• Proceedings of the First Commonwealth Conference on Public Health Engineering, Melbourne, 19th - 27th September, 1927, Division of Public Health Engineering (Melbourne: Commonwealth Department of Health, 1928), xviii, 229 pp. Details

Gazette Articles

• 'Appointments - Department of Health', Commonwealth of Australia Gazette (1926), 531, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article232534615. Details

Journal Articles

• Gutteridge, A. G., 'The collection and disposal of municipal refuse', Transactions of the Institution of Engineers Australia, 5 (1924), 210-251, https://search.informit.org/doi/10.3316/informit.862347837758979. Details
• Gutteridge, A. G., 'The water supply of Brisbane', Journal of the Institution of Engineers, Australia, 1 (11) (1929), 397-409. Details
• Gutteridge, A. G.; Newman, R. K.; Poole, W.; Stevenson, L.; Dewar, J. D.; Holland, W. B., 'Discussions and communications: The collection and disposal of municipal refuse, by A. G. Gutteridge', Transactions of the Institution of Engineers Australia, 5 (1924), 387-392, https://search.informit.org/doi/10.3316/informit.862869560954209. Details
• Hodgson, H. J. N.; Murrell, J. W.; Gutteridge, A. G., 'Glenelg Sewage Treatment Works [Discussion]', Journal of the Institution of Engineers, Australia, 8 (1936), 215-218. Details

Parliamentary papers

• Gutteridge, A. G., Report of the Royal Commission of Inquiry into the Brisbane Water Supply (Brisbane: Government Printer, 1928), https://www.parliament.qld.gov.au/Work-of-the-Assembly/Tabled-Papers/docs/2428T1S3/2428t1003.pdf. Details
• Royal Commission on Sanitation, Interim report of the Royal Commission on Sanitation, 1926 (Melbourne: H. J. Green, Government Printer, 1926), 4 pp, https://pov.ent.sirsidynix.net.au/client/en_GB/parl_paper/search/detailnonmodal/ent:$002f$002fSD_ILS$002f0$002fSD_ILS:22930/one. Details
• Royal Commission on Sanitation, Report of the Royal Commission on Sanitation, 1926 (Melbourne: H. J. Green, Government Printer, 1927), 8 pp, https://pov.ent.sirsidynix.net.au/client/en_GB/parl_paper/search/detailnonmodal/ent:$002f$002fSD_ILS$002f0$002fSD_ILS:22931/one. Details

Resources

• CA 1792, Deputy Commissioner of Invalid and Old-Age Pensions, Maternity Allowances, and War Pensions, Victoria, 'NAA: B73, R65015', B73 Personal case files, World War I, National Archives of Australia, RecordSearch, https://recordsearch.naa.gov.au/scripts/AutoSearch.asp?O=I&Number=20604454. Details

See also

• 'Promotions - Department of Health', Commonwealth of Australia Gazette (1928), 3225, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article232533233. Details
• Hodgson, H. J. N., 'Glenelg Sewage Treatment Works', Journal of the Institution of Engineers, Australia, 7 (1935), 229-250. Gordon Gutteridge was the consulting engineer for the Glenelg Sewage Treatment Works. Details
• Murrell, J. W., 'Sewage treatment works, Port Adelaide', Journal of the Institution of Engineers, Australia, 8 (1936), 445-462. Gutteridge was consulted on the project. Details
• Murrell, J. W.; Gutteridge, A. G.; Clark, E. V.; Farrer, A.; Dumas, R. J., 'Sewage treatment works, Port Adelaide [Discussion]', Journal of the Institution of Engineers, Australia, 9 (1937), 358-359. Details