Scott Woolcock
Director

 

Key Competencies

Structural and civil design and coordination as project leader on a wide range of project types including defence, mining, aircraft hangars, heavy industrial, water treatment structures and busways.

Qualifications

Bachelor of Engineering, First Class Honours, University of Queensland, 1969

Doctor of Philosophy, University of Sydney, 1974

Registered Professional Engineer, Queensland

Member, Institution of Engineers, Australia

Fellow, Society of Professional Engineers of Papua New Guinea

Registered Structural Engineer, Papua New Guinea

The Edwin John Grigg Lectureship in Innovative Structural Engineering 1987, University of Queensland

Experience

1989 to date: Director, Bonacci Group (Qld) Pty Ltd - Projects include:

55m span hangar, Port Moresby

Tilt-up warehouses at Tennyson and Acacia Ridge

Gymnasia at Corinda and Arana Hills

Meat packing store Aberdeen NSW

Mail sorting annexe in Brisbane

Communications Centre, Brisbane Girls Grammar School

Workshop and warehouse, Porgera PNG

Tilt-up office for John Deere Marsden

180 units and central complex, North Goonyella

Sports centre, Brisbane Girls Grammar School

General cargo wharf, Cairns

Communication towers, Darwin, Perth, Sydney

Refurbishment BSHS Blocks K, L and M

Ansett Hangar Extension 72m span, Brisbane

Warehouse at Tingalpa

Water treatment structures at Rocky Creek, NSW

Kallangur Community Hall

2 industrial buildings at Carole Park

Mining structures in Papua New Guinea

Auditorium at Iona College

Stanwell coal loading bridges

Tilt-up office and warehouse, Rocklea

Water treatment structures, Melaka, Malaysia

7 hangars, Port Moresby, PNG

Tering River Village Resort Malaysia

Warehouse for Colgate Palmolive, Lae

Bleach facility for Colgate Palmolive, Lae

Analysis of 90m communication tower for CAA

1986 to 1989: Director, Cardno & Davies Brisbane – Responsible for numerous commercial and industrial buildings and civil engineering projects.

Structural Works

Caloundra retail building

Petrie Terrace office building

James Hardie factory

Noosa River Harbour Town

Canadian Expo Pavilion

Cornflour warehouse

24 reservoir roofs with aluminium purlins and trusses

Fabric and cable structure, Brisbane

 

Civil Works

Residential and industrial subdivisions

Roads

Marinas

Bridges

Canal subdivisions

Ferry terminals

1981 to 1985: Director and Associate Director, Cardno & Davies, Townsville – Responsible for numerous commercial and industrial projects.

 

Structural Projects

Hardie Containers factory, Townsville

COD warehouse Gladstone

Palm Island Community Hall

NORQEB office Bowen

Westpac office Townsville

Cluden Park Motor Inn

150 x 60m aluminium reservoir roof Brisbane

8 reservoir roofs Tweed Shire

Seafood factories and cold stores in Cairns and Karumba

 

Civil Projects

Residential and industrial subdivisions

Wharves in Karumba

Tender designs for marinas in Cairns

Tender designs for marinas in Cairns and Townsville

 

1980 to 1981 Resident Director, Cardno & Davies, PNG – Responsible for various structural projects, including bridges.
1976 to 1979 Structural Engineer, Cardno & Davies, Brisbane – Design and supervision of structures in steel, concrete and timber. Projects included 38m cantilevered roof for QE II Stadium, Brisbane, Greenmount Tourist Resort, Alexandra Hills shopping centre, Pacific Regis Burleigh (15 storeys), reservoirs and pumping stations, Runaway Bay Marina, Iwasaki Units Yeppoon.
1975 to 1976 Bullen and Partners, England – Engineer. Design of composite plate girder and box girder bridges.
1974 to 1975 Freeman Fox and Partners, London – Engineer. Strength check of Erskine Bridge, Scotland, a cable stayed box girder bridge.
1971 to 1974 University of Sydney – Research student.
1970 to 1971 Commonwealth Department of Works, Sydney – Engineer. Design of structures in steel and reinforced concrete, including Dundas Power House, Sydney and CSIRO National Standards Laboratory, Sydney.

 

Publications

1972 to 1975 Four papers in the Journal of Engineering Mechanics, American Society of Civil Engineers, one paper in the Journal of Structural Mechanics.
1979 "The Design and Construction of the 1982 Commonwealth Games Grandstand, Brisbane", Queensland Division Technical Papers, Institution of Engineers, Australia, Vol. 20, No. 27, October 1979.
1981 "Single Angle Struts" Steel Construction, Journal of the Australian Institute of Steel Construction, Vol. 14, No. 4, 1980.
1985 "Tension Members and Self Weight", Steel Construction, Journal of the Australian Institute of Steel Construction, Vol. 19, No. 1, 1985.
1985 "Design of Diagonal Roof Bracing Rods and Tubes", Journal of Structural Engineering, American Society of Civil Engineers, Vol. III, No. 5, May 1985.
1986 "Single Angle Struts in Trusses", Journal of Structural Engineering, American Society of Civil Engineers, June 1986.
1986 "Some Factors Influencing the Design of Industrial Structures", Pacific Structural Steel Conference Proceedings, Auckland, August, 1986.
1986 "Deflection Limits for Portal Frames", Steel Construction, Journal of the Australian Institute of Steel Construction, November, 1986.
1988 "The Design of Portal Frame Buildings", book published by the Australian Institute of Steel Construction, January, 1988.
1990 "Limit State Design of Portal Frame Buildings", 1st edition, book published by the Australian Institute of Steel Construction, January, 1991.
1993 "Limit State Design of Portal Frame Buildings", 2nd edition, book published by the Australian Institute of Steel Construction, February, 1993.