| Career Summary – Ian
Godson |
| 1987 |
Jointly formed Remedial Engineering
in Melbourne and became founding Managing Director. Introduced new
technology for investigations and repair. |
| 1988 |
Negotiated major façade repair of Royal
Insurance Building in Melbourne (A$2m) |
| 1988 |
Studied Cathodic Protection (CP) of Concrete
with Oronzio De Nora in Italy. Introduced concrete CP technology
using activated Titanium to Australia. Did first CP trial work. |
| 1989 |
First Concrete CP project using Titanium mesh
in Australia (Mile Bridge-Vic)
Commenced PhD student in R&D on Concrete CP (Z Lourenco under Prof
Cherry)
Remedial Engineering expanded to Sydney office |
| 1990 |
Appointed President of Concrete Institute of
Australia (Vic) |
| 1991 |
Jointly formed the Australian Concrete Repair
Association (ACRA) and was its founding President from 1991 to 1993
Introduced CPI internal anodes to Australian market, negotiated first project. |
| 1992 |
Remedial Engineering expanded to Brisbane office,
projects throughout Australia.
Assisted with first Rilem Conference on Rehabilitation Concrete (CSIRO/ACRA) |
| 1993 |
First major wharf CP at Grassy Wharf on King
Island, Tasmania. |
| 1995 |
Sydney Opera House CP to substructure |
| 1996 |
Introduced Savcor (Finland) as new major shareholder
of Remedial |
| 1997 |
Negotiated Brisbane Port CP for $9m |
| 1998 |
Second Rilem conference on Rehabilitation of
Structures jointly chaired and edited. |
| 1999 |
Steps down as Managing Director to take up Technical
Director role. Company changed name to Savcor ART. |
| 2000 |
Director responsible for the Sydney Opera House
Sail repair project.
Invited to Libya to investigate Great Man Made River (GMRA) corrosion problems
and recommend a CP solution |
| 2001 |
Won Westgate Bridge strengthening project |
| 2002 |
Director responsible for negotiation and managing
the Corrpro acquisition in Australia. Head of Corrosion Management
Division of Savcor.
Involved in CP of gas and water pipelines, tank bases and other steel structures. |
| 2004 |
Left Savcor in February after 17 years to establish
Ian Godson & Associates. |
