Home and Away - A Civil Engineering Odyssey draws on the author's long
career as an engineer responsible for many projects around the world. In
the memoir he highlights some of those projects with descriptions of the
design processes and the construction methods used to bring the works to
successful completion, keeping technical detail to the minimum needed
for the reader's understanding of the projects. Personal reminiscences
of his travels complement descriptions of life as an engineer.
Developments in analysis of structures during the author's working life
have enabled all manner of structures to be designed to display elegance
of form in a natural way without unnecessary embellishment. Practising
engineers understand the satisfaction to be found in designing such
engineering works and seeing them built as they envisaged. It is hoped
the author's enthusiasm for his work as expressed in the memoir may
inspire others to become the civil engineers of the future.