Sam Thorburn
British civil engineer
Sam Thorburn
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1930
Glasgow
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Nationality | Scottish |
Education | Royal Technical College, Glasgow now the University of Strathclyde , |
Occupation | Engineer |
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Discipline | Structural engineer , civil engineer |
Projects | Ibrox Stadium |
Samuel Thorburn , CBE , [1] FREng , [2] FIStructE, FICE, is a British civil engineer . He was president of the Institution of Structural Engineers (IStructE) in 1997-1998 and the 2003 recipient of their Gold Medal . He served as Chairman of the Scottish Building Standards Advisory Committee. [3]
Early life and education
Thorburn was educated in Hamilton Academy, which he left at 16 to work under a training agreement with a civil engineering contractor, [4] and studied during the evening at the Royal Technical College, Glasgow — now the University of Strathclyde. [4]
Career
In 1966 Thorburn founded the consultancy known latterly as Thorburn Colquhoun. [4] The company was taken over by American Consultant URS in 1999. [5] One of his significant projects was the design of Ibrox Stadium , Glasgow [6] Thorburn was Chairman of the Glasgow and West of Scotland Association of the Institution of Civil Engineers for the session 1975-76 [7] He was appointed to the Football Licensing Authority formed in 1990 after Lord Justice Taylor's Report on the Hillsborough Disaster in 1989. [8] He served on the Football Licensing Authority between 1993 and 2001. [9] He was chairman of the Working Party responsible for the fourth edition of the Guide to Safety at Sports Grounds (The Green Guide 1997). [10] He was appointed first chairman of the new Scottish Registration Board for Approved Certifiers of Design (Building Structures) formed in 2004 [7]
Awards and honours
Thorburn was the first recipient of the Rear Admiral John Garth Watson Medal awarded by the Institution of Civil Engineers in 1993. He was awarded a CBE for services to Construction and Engineering in 2003. [1] He was awarded an Hon DSc by the University of Strathclyde in 1993. [11] He was awarded the Gold Medal of the Institution of Structural Engineers in 2003
References
- 1 2 "CBE" .
- ↑ "List of Fellows" .
- ↑ "Building Standards Advisory Committee" .
- 1 2 3 The Structural Engineer (16 September 1997), Profile: The President 1997-98 , vol. 75, Institution of Structural Engineers
- ↑ "URS Takeover of Thorburn Colquhoun" . 4 February 1999.
- ↑ "The design and construction of the new Ibrox Stadium" (PDF) .
- 1 2 "125 Years of ICE Glasgow & West of Scotland" (PDF) .
- ↑ "Stadia" . 7 March 1990.
- ↑ "Football Licensing Authority" .
- ↑ Thompson, P.; Tolloczko, J.; Clarke, N. (November 2002). Green Guide . ISBN 9781482272147 .
- ↑ "Hon DSc (University of Strathclyde)" (PDF) .
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