CIBSE Australia and New Zealand 30th Anniversary

REMEMBERING WHEN...
Drawings were manual and the pen used was a ‘Graphos’
nib style – later pens became the ‘Rapidograph’ (different
“Companies had their favourite choice for either).
Drawing notes were hand written using pen and ink. After
a while the nib became worn to the writing approach/style
“that you adopted.
Image supplied by A.G. Coombs
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Don’t
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I had the first car phone in the office that took half a day
to install and was like a brick fixed to the side of the dash
console – used as a ‘mobile’ in the car; but not transferable “as a mobile externally.
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forget the Gestener for copying – often large ink blobs
“through the ‘sandwiched’ paper. This was hand operated.
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Good times and great memories
David Robinson - South Australia Chair 2014-17
PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE
PAST
Ian Small, CIBSE ANZ Chair (2014-17) reminisces
his journey with the ANZ Region, which began
approximately 20 years ago over a few red wines with
John Tyerman (the first of many!). John was one of the
founding fathers of the Region, Ian had known John
from his early days in Australia with Frigrite Mechanical
Services, now FMS Commercial Pty Ltd. John convinced
Ian to renew his membership, which had relinquished
after migrating in 1974, due to there being no CIBSE
presence during this time.
Ian subsequently joined the CIBSE South Australia
(SA) Chapter committee, circa 1990-91. He then
progressed to SA Chapter Chair role a few years later.
It was in this capacity where Ian was exposed to the
regional committee, and he met many of the founding
members, including Grahame Gibb, Phil Leach, Neil
Lobley, Nicholas Flint and John Redding. The region
had previously organised two very successful national
conferences in 1988 and 1991. The majority of the
quarterly regional committee meetings where in the
Qantas club in Sydney or Melbourne or Haden’s offices
in Melbourne.
Ian recalls, ‘Building Services Engineering was very
different back then, with the use of drawing boards,
tee squares, slide rules, log tables and Texas scientific
calculators. There were tracers and typists who were
often the only women in the office and were much sought
after by young engineers to assist on projects’.
Nearly all the engineers he worked with had beards and
architects wore bow ties and black turtle neck sweaters.
When Roger Turvey stepped down, following his
successful period as Regional Treasurer, Ian volunteered,
after some persuasion and a few glasses of red wine, to
take on that important role as Treasurer. Ian successfully
volunteered in this position for approximately 15 years,
where he stood down and handed the keys to Mathew
Klintfält, to further progress on his CIBSE journey
becoming Chair of the Region in 2014.
Since his involvement circa, 1990-91, Ian has witnessed
first-hand the ANZ region membership grow to over
700, the CIBSE ANZ profile and presence is continuing to
increase through the drive and enthusiasm of the Chapter
committee, hundreds of great technical sessions, high
profile regional seminar series – including international
speakers, CIBSE ANZ involvement in ARBS Exhibitions,
plus commitment to excellence via CIBSE involvement
through ANZ Standard Committees.
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