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The aim of the event is to have students and graduates interact, engage and interpret with various
elements of heritage in and around The Rocks area of Sydney. The outcome of this process is to
communicate this information to other young engineers and the general public through the use of
mobile device technology.
Young engineers will explore parts of The Rocks with heritage engineer, Michael Clarke and will
learn from Daniel Woo about the process and technology they have used to create a podcasts for
walking tours.
Key areas of interest include:
Sydney Harbour Bridge
- Removed the need for horse (and later) car ferries.
- Huge fabrication workshops erected on north side (now Luna Park) where steel was cut to size
and fabricated into components.
- Until they joined, the half arches were restrained by steel cables passing through tunnels in the rock on both sides of the harbour.
- Approximately 6 million rivets were required to fasten the bridge together.
Dawes battery
- Constructed in 1791 in order to guard Sydney Cove from potential invasion.
- Some the buildings demolished in 1920s to make way for Sydney Harbour Bridge.
- Archaeological work in 1995 resulted in the battery restoration and interpretation. The process revealed one of the
(huge) concrete blocks that contained the guide tubes for the steel cables that held back the southern half of the bridge
arch during its erection; this can be seen.
Biographies
Heritage professional - Michael Clarke is a civil engineer who spent 40 years with the Public Works Department of NSW,
retiring in 1992 as Chief Engineer. He has been a member of the Sydney Engineering Heritage Committee since 1990 and was
Chair of Engineering Heritage Australia in 2001-02. He is the author of an award-winning walking guide to Sydney′s
engineering heritage and has conducted over 120 heritage walks and harbour cruises since 1994. Michael has had various
board appointments including: the first engineer member of the Sydney Opera House Conservation Council; member of the
Management Committee of the History Council of NSW in 2003; member of the Management Committee of the Oral History
Association of Australia (NSW) since 1996; and since April 2005 a member of the NSW Heritage Council′s Register Committee.
Technology guru - Dr. Daniel Woo is the leader of Human Computer Interaction and Usability in the School of Computer Science
and Engineering at The University of New South Wales. He has designed and developed a range of technologies spanning mobile devices,
speech and audio technologies, location-based services and desktop solutions. In 2000, he established the formal usability testing
laboratory at the University of New South Wales. Since 2003 Daniel has been leading the Audio Nomad project developing location-based
media experiences under the Australia Research Council and Australia Councils joint Synapse initiative which aims to fuse art+science
research. Audio Nomad has developed location-based artworks for the Baltic Sea (2004), Sydney Harbour (2006) and The Rocks
(forthcoming History Week 2008). He teaches usability and object oriented software development for user interfaces at the University
of New South Wales. Prior to UNSW he has worked in research and development for government and commercial organisations. He is a member
of the IEEE and ACM CHISIG.
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