Alexander Wargon

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Alexander Wargon (born September 10, 1926 in Warsaw , † October 6, 2010 in Sydney ) was a Polish-born Australian engineer and university professor. He founded the construction company for the construction of the Sydney Tower and was involved in over 4000 construction projects. An engineering award given by the University of New South Wales was named after him .

Life

Alexander Wargon was the son of Mendel and Bluma Wargon. The family was taken prisoner in the Warsaw ghetto , from which Alexander Wargon managed to escape to Palestine at the age of 16 . There he received approval to attend engineering school. In May 1948, when the State of Israel was established, the school closed and the students were drafted into the army as part of the mobilization. Wargon was assigned to the corps that built bridges and other traffic structures. After the end of the Palestine War, Wargon graduated with honors.

Before moving to Boston in the United States of America , he married his wife, Hannah Waxman. In 1954 he completed further training in the construction of high-rise buildings and took a leading position in a civil engineering company. After five years of activity, he saw new opportunities for the challenges in Sydney , Australia , where he immigrated in March 1958.

In Sydney he first worked for Rankine and Hill and later founded his own company. Encouraged by expansion, he teamed up with Robert Chapman to form Wargon Chapman and Partners . Together with Donald Crone , he designed the Centrepoint Tower, which was later named Sydney Tower . Another of his outstanding engineering achievements is the Sydney Harbor Tunnel . Wargon has also taught civil engineering and architecture at Sydney University and the University of New South Wales.

In 1991 Wargon sold his company, which from then on traded under the name of Hyder Consulting , gave up his engineering activity, but continued to give lectures at the two universities.

Publications

  • Alexander Wargon: The Several Lives of Alex Wargon , Wild & Woolley, Sydney 1998.
  • A. Wargon, E. Smith, A. Davids: Sydney Tower Design for Comfort and Strength , in: National Structural Engineering Conference , 1990, ISBN 0-858255065 .
  • Alexander Wargon: Sydney Tower at Centrepoint (Australia) , in: IBASE STRUCTURES C-34/85 (Telecommunication Towers), May 1985, pp. 24-27, ISSN  0377-7286 . ( here online )
  • M. Shears: Discussion on Design and Construction of Sydney Tower by Alexander Wargon in: The Structural Engineer , Volume 62 (1984).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ PRIZES in the Faculty of Engineering , accessed August 21, 2019
  2. ^ University of New South Wales: Awards and prizes , accessed August 21, 2019
personal data
SURNAME Wargon, Alexander
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Australian engineer
DATE OF BIRTH September 10, 1926
PLACE OF BIRTH Warsaw
DATE OF DEATH October 6, 2010
Place of death Sydney