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 helped to successfully guide the design and construction of many major town water supply and sewerage schemes throughout Australia, that today, still 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);
* Commission on Brisbane's 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 event - Associate Member (AMIEAust), Institution of Engineers Australia

1923

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

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, 1926, Victoria

1927

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

1927 - 1928

Career event - Commissioner, Inquiry into Brisbane's Water Supply

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

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

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