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A disgrace to our engineering profession; Fake engineer worked on Queensland coal projects
Topic Started: 10 Aug 2014, 12:55 PM (438 Views)
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This is not something which is out of the ordinary. Had the Christchurch quake never happened, this Wiesel would have gone down as an anonymous incompetent. Many out there even today............fuck me, you run into em on a daily basis.

Thank god he's barred from practicing engineering in Australia anymore.

Fake engineer worked on Queensland coal projects

August 9, 2014 - 11:45PM
Cameron Atfield

20082012 FAIRFAX PHOTO KIRK HARGREAVES Feature on Gerald Shirtcliff aka Will Fisher. Construction manager for CTV building in 1986 which collapsed in the Christchurch Feb 22 Earthquake.

Gerald Shirtcliff, aka Will Fisher, construction manager for CTV building in 1986 which collapsed in the Christchurch Earthquake. Photo: KIRK HARGREAVES

Engineering projects across Queensland have had to be reassessed after a fake engineer, who worked on the collapsed CTV building that collapsed in the 2011 Christchurch earthquake, worked on them using a fake name and qualifications.

Gerald Shirtcliffe, under the truncated name Gerald Shirtcliff, featured in the New Zealand royal commission into the Christchurch earthquakes over his role supervising the construction of the CTV building, which collapsed on February 22 2011 last year, killing 115 people.

Shirtcliffe, 66 of Victoria Point, pleaded guilty on June 12 to 146 charges, including carrying out professional engineering services while not a registered engineer and making “false and misleading” statements to the Board of Professional Engineers of Queensland.

Since March 2000, Shirtcliffe had worked as a registered engineer in Queensland under an identity he stole from a former colleague.

Shirtcliffe had shared a flat with English engineer William Fisher in the 1960s, and practiced in Queensland under Mr Fisher’s name.

Shirtcliffe walked free from court, but was fined $500,000 and ordered to pay $20,000 in professional costs.

“You knew you were not entitled to be registered,” Magistrate Paul Kluck told Shirtcliffe.

“You allowed yourself to be held out as a registered professional engineer and you used that title.”

In Queensland, Shirtcliffe worked for engineering firms Worley Parsons Limited and Sedgman Limited, where he worked on several major projects.

Those included major coal projects at Maules Creek, Codrilla, Boggabri, Lake Vermont and Caval Ridge.

He also worked on the southern expansion of Mount Isa Mines’ Black Star open cut mine in outback Queensland, along with New Auckland in Gladstone.

Comment was sought from both Worley Parsons and Sedgman.

A spokesman for Housing and Public Works Minister Tim Mander, whose portfolio takes in the BPEQ, said Shirtcliffe’s most recent employers had reviewed his work and “reported no concerns”.

Read more: http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/queensland/fake-engineer-worked-on-queensland-coal-projects-20140809-102ch0.html#ixzz39wwzhDCr
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wat about Bartons nob jok post about renewable engineers sleeping under bridges i saw that one whoever u r barton
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SuperEgo, renewable energy truly has been dealt a death blow by the gubment. It is a shame no doubt, especially for Australia.
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