Activities
Engineering Heritage Australia run a number of programs across the country. To find out more about a particular program, just follow the links below.
Engineering Heritage National Conference
Engineering Heritage Australia organises through its division heritage groups a biennial conference on Engineering Heritage. This event is typically held in spring every second year and is rotated through the various division cities including New Zealand.
The 3rd Australasian Engineering Heritage Conference was held at Dunedin - New Zealand on 22-25 November 2009.
Engineering Heritage Recognition Program
The Engineering Heritage Recognition Program is an updated version of the Australian Historic Engineering Plaquing Program which was established in 1984 as a means of bringing public recognition to engineering works of historic or heritage significance and to the engineers who created them. The aims of the program are to encourage the conservation of Australian engineering heritage, and to raise community awareness of engineering and the benefits it provides.
Oral History Program
The National Engineering Oral History Program was established in June 2001. Its purpose is to record the experiences and achievements of nationally significant engineers. Over time it will also establish an engineering oral history data-base which can be accessed by researchers, biographers, historians, journalists, social scientists etc.
Conservation & Management of Engineering Heritage
Engineers Australia is dedicated to conserving significant items of engineering heritage in a manner that conforms to both statutory requirements and the philosophy of the Burra Charter and to help provide the skills required by engineers for conservation of all the nation's built heritage.
An engineer's role in conservation of built heritage requires understanding of the conservation process. Most existing guidelines are not entirely applicable to engineering heritage in particular or the engineering aspects of built heritage in general, consequently EHA has prepared and published "Engineering Heritage and Conservation Guidelines", aimed specifically at engineers, in order to assist professionals in protecting significance during conservation projects.
