 | SCOTT, Frederick WBorn:Engineer | ||||||||||
On graduation in 1910 Mr Scott joined the Londonderry County Council and for three years was engaged on the design and supervision of construction of roads, bridges and culverts, as well as on routine maintenance works. He emigrated to South Africa in 1911 and joined the South African Government Railways, first as Assistant Engineer and later as Engineer in charge, Construction Department. He was based in Natal where he was involved with new line route location, design of bridges and tunnels, and construction of earthworks, rock excavation, tunnels, culverts, bridges, platelaying and stations. He also undertook the reconstruction of the Durban Harbour Yards whilst under traffic conditions. Mr Scott then joined the Johannesburg Consolidated Investment Co Ltd and for two years undertook underground surveys and surface layouts of roads and railways. This was followed by four years with the Irrigation Department for the Government of the Union of South Africa, where he was the Senior Resident Engineer in charge of design and construction by direct labour of the Hartebeespoort Irrigation Works, which included a 198 ft [60.3 m] high concrete dam, spillways, outlets tunnels and canals at an approximate cost of £1.25-million. This was followed by a spell in Brazil where he was in charge of the construction of two concrete and masonry irrigation dams. In 1924 Scott joined The Foundation Company with branches in London and New York as Advisory and Estimating Engineer and Agent during which time he was associated with the Lochaber Power Scheme, Morsey Tunnel, Morden Underground Extension of the City & South London Railways and the Salonika Plain Reclamation Works, Greece. This latter project encompassed river training, diversion and protection works, river and canal control, the construction of new bridges, roads and railways. The project, which included major earthworks of over 60 000 000 cubic yards [47 160 000 cubic metres] was completed at a cost of £3.5-million. Further river, tunnel and heavy steel work projects followed in Northern Ireland, Canada and London before he returned to South Africa in September 1934 to take up an appointment as Resident engineer on the alterations to the Bongolo Dam, Queenstown [now Komani], for GA Stewart. This was followed by the design and construction of heavy foundation work for New Consolidated Goldfields Ltd. Immediately prior to starting his own practice Scott was the Local Representative of the Board of Engineers, Kromme River Scheme, Port Elizabeth Water Supply, where he was in charge of surveys, designs, preparation of plans, reports and contract documents. He was also in charge of construction of a multiple arch dam 140 ft [42.6 m] high and 725 ft [221 m] long, pipelines, tunnels, bridges, aqueducts, purification works and service reservoir. This impressive project was completed at an estimated cost of £1.750 million. Frederick Scott was a founder member of the South African Association of Consulting Engineers in 1952 and was elected President from 1953 to 1955. (Information extracted from Stewart Scott International (SSI) History* submitted by Jane Carruthers) * SSI HISTORY: ONE List of projects With photographs With notes
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