Date of birth: 28^th August, 1932.

Qualifications: ARMIT Associate of the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (Quantity Surveying Diploma).

Prizes: L. A. Casey Prize for Quantity Surveying.
(Top student in final year Quantity Surveying at RMIT).

Areas of expertise: Specification writing, measurement, teaching and training, terminology.

Specifications: Specifications and Specified Bills of Quantities.

• 11 apartments, units, flats, APUs and housing projects
• 4 motels
• 4 students’ residences
• 7 schools
• 1 embassy
• 1 high commisioner’s residence
• 1 resort centre
• 4 office blocks and post offices
• 1 workshop
• 2 service stations
• 2 sports pavilions

• 2 toilet blocks

Alterations and additions

• 1 Heritage convent
• 2 churches
• 2 conference centres
• 1 hotel

Refurbishment

• 1 apartment building
• 1 specialist school fitout
• 5 office fitouts
• 4 workshop and laboratory fitouts
• 1 conference centre
• 3 restaurants and clubs

Architectural: Involved in the design and documentation of an office building and renovations and alterations to existing buildings including offices, police stations and schools. Also involved in the supervision of two projects including progress payments, variations and final accounts.

Quantity surveying: Measurement of trade sections for bills of quantities, project management contracts, builder’s quantities and civil engineering projects for tendering purposes.

Remeasurement of bills of quantities and civil engineering quantities for schedule of rates contracts.

Measurement of work for estimates and variations and agreeing of variations, progress payments and final accounts.

Remeasurement of work already carried out, including site measurements, and the checking of documents, prior to legal proceedings.

Building projects ranging from small to large including housing projects, schools, offices, hospitals, scientific establishments, defence establishments and sporting venues.

Engineering projects included roads and bridges, bulk earthworks for roads and mines, a pumping station, dams, a wharf and power pylons.

Teaching: Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology.

(20 years part time) Port Moresby Technical College.
Canberra Institute of Technology
Canberra College of Advanced Education.
University of Canberra.

• 22 years self employed: the last 8 years specialising in specification writing.
• 2·5 years with government Architectural section.
• 7·5 years with government Quantity Surveying sections.
• 11 years with Quantity Surveying firms.
• 4 years with Builders and Architectural estimating sections.
• 8 years with Joinery firms: 5·5 years apprenticeship and 6 months as acting foreman.