HARVEY PARKER PASSES AWAY AT 83

摘要

USA- Dr Harvey Parker, one of the best-known and respected personalities in the global tunnelling fraternity, has died following a two-year battle with cancer. His career spanned 55 years during which he made significant contributions to education, theory and tunnelling practice. His work and achievements were ultimately recognised in 2018 by the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Underground Construction Association, and in 2019 by the Lifetime Achievement Award from the International Tunnelling Association (1TA).Dr Parker graduated in 1957 with a BSCE from what is today called Auburn University, Alabama, and gained an MS in civil engineering from Harvard in 1967. Having served as chief engineer on a US Navy destroyer, he went on to do pioneering work on steel-fibre shotcrete in 1972. He gained a PhD in civil engineering with a minor in geology from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in 1976.