James Anthony Gaffney

James Anthony Gaffney
Born 1928
Nationality British

Engineering career

Discipline Civil
Institutions Chartered Institution of Highways and Transportation (President 1978-79)
Institution of Civil Engineers (President 1983-84)
Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering
Projects Construction of the M62

James Anthony Gaffney, CBE, FICE, FREng, FCIHT (born 1928) is a British civil engineer.

Construction of the M62 next to the newly built Scammonden Reservoir

Gaffney was born in the Rhymney Valley, South Wales in 1928 and holds BSc and DSc degrees.[1][2]

He was the County Engineer for the West Riding of Yorkshire at the time of the construction of Scammonden Reservoir and M62 in the late 1960s.[3] He was elected president of the Chartered Institution of Highways and Transportation for the 1978-79 session and elected president of the Institution of Civil Engineers for the 1983-84 session.

As part of the 1984 Queen's Birthday Honours Gaffney was, on 16 June, appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire, in the civil division.[4] At one point he was Director of Engineering Services at the West Yorkshire Metropolitan County Council.[4]

References

  1. ↑ Masterton, Gordon (2005), ICE Presidential Address, retrieved 24 October 2010
  2. ↑ Watson 1988, p. 254.
  3. ↑ "Scammonden Dam". Engineering Timelines. Retrieved 30 December 2010.
  4. 1 2 The London Gazette: (Supplement) no. 49768. p. 8. 16 June 1984. Retrieved 30 December 2010.

Bibliography

Professional and academic associations
Preceded by
John Vernon Bartlett		 President of the Institution of Civil Engineers
November 1983 – November 1984 		Succeeded by
John Anthony Derrington


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