Terry worked in manufacturing to pay his way through university as a civil structural (thesis in traffic) engineer and spent many years in construction management many of which were leading edge.
Aircraft Facilities (Malaysia)
Terry was the site Engineer / Project manager for the erection of a the largest hangar of its type at the time using a patented stress erection technique and was large enough for two 747s.
Multistorey Construction (Fitzroy Street St.Kilda Victoria Australia)
Terry was the site / project manager for the structural phase of the project. The Basement construction was considered innovative in its day but is now standard construction.
Traffic Management Systems (Based in Melbourne Australia, above photo in Wollongong). Terry was National Marketing Manager and used his construction and contract management skills for Stratford Traffic. This project was required due to significant rear end collisions due to fog (sea mist). It was leading edge technology systems implementation at that time combining fog detectors, road traffic sensors and the fibre optic variable message signs. Terry also produced training video on Traffic Survey Technologies that was used by most universities and a paper on the use of Variable message signs in High Speed Environments that was published internationally!
Manufacturing Facilities (Wodonga Victoria)
Larger machines were required and the design for raising the roof of a significant manufacturing facility was considered. Designs showed that over 4km (when rationalised) of pipework and 600 cables were scheduled so that minimal downtime would occur. Some would define the design, scheduling and programming as complex but really just a lot of thought and hard work!
Gas Metering Stations (WA North West Shelf Gas Pipeline project)
Site Engineer – managed various inspectors and able to speed up this section of work.
Tieri township (Central Queensland)
Site Engineer and arrived when the trees were being cleared and managed various aspects (including elements of subdivision construction, shopping centre, Olympic pool, Water treatment facility etc) through to people moving into the 160 houses that were built to house the workforce for the Oakey Creek coal mine. The township now has its own website with a video of what is there now.