The Guyana Association of Professional Engineers (GAPE) is embarking on a project to write and publish a book featuring technical information about some major projects from 1945-2010.
In a press release GAPE said the book will be titled “An outline of civil engineering development in Guyana.” It will not only be a faithful record of development achievement but also “an inspiration to potential engineers to relate the progress of civilization to the application of civil engineering expertise.
The Association said mechanical and electrical engineering will be duly recognised but not detailed.
The project will be undertaken by one of GAPE’s most senior and honoured engineers in Guyana, Phillip Allsopp who pursued his undergraduate and postgraduate studies at the Imperial College of Science and Technology in London. It will include features on bridges such as the Canje swing bridge and the Denham suspension bridge; hydropower: Tumatumari, Sweco, the Amaila Montreal Engineering Studies; roads, economic studies and research by both local and foreign personnel; drainage and irrigation, the conservancies; mining engineering, bauxite and manganese extraction and railway development in the colonial era.
The book will also examine the roles of Guysuco, Guymine and the GGMC in enhancing the engineering profession and the Demerara Bauxite Company and its contribution to engineering development.
In addition it will end with the chapter titled “The Future, nationally and internationally” which will discuss why Guyana, of all Caricom countries, has the most varied conditions for attracting engineering research.
