Tunnels & Caverns

<p>Harry was born and raised in Dublin Ireland. On finishing high school he went to England and was hired as a Trainee Engineer by a large Civil Engineering & Building contractor.</p><p>Training initially was at the home office and included drafting quantity take-off and surveying basics. Following a year at the home office he was assigned to a construction project as an Instrument Man assisting the Project Engineer. In less than two years he was appointed Field Engineer and a year later was moved to rank of Superintendent. His first assignment in that capacity involved supervision of a large sewer installation in a suburb of London. That project included about three thousand feet of small diameter hand-minded tunnel. A succeeding project also included some tunnel work.</p><p>In 1960 Harry immigrated with his family to Canada. His fi rst job interview was with a Civil Engineering company. Th is company McNamara Corporation happened to have a tunneling division and from that point on it became a life of tunneling for Harry with a number of contractors and then as a consultant.</p><p>Harry took a position in the U.S. in 1976 as Chief Estimator with a tunneling specialty company - S & M Constructors Solon Ohio. In 1986 he moved back into field-work and supervised a variety of tunnel projects both in rock and soft ground over the next ten years.</p><p>Now retired Harry lives with wife Beverley in Kansas. They spend time visiting their five children and eight grandchildren throughout the U.S. and Canada.</p>