Dr. Henry - Die Dambouer

Dr. Henry OLIVIER: 'n Dambouer sonder gelyke

Dr. Henry OLIVIER is op die ouderdom van 80 dood in Jeffreysbaai op 06 Okt 1994 na 'n beroerte in September. Hy was vanuit die NG Kerk Jeffreysbaai begrawe.

Hy was die hoofingenieur van die Kariba, Hendrik Verwoerd, Cabora Basa en Owen Falls damme.Hy was ook betrokke by dambou projekte in Pakistan, Iran en Indië. Dr. Olivier was die ontwerper van drywende hawehoofde met die Geallieerdes se inval in Normandië in 1944.

Hy is 'n ereburger van Sutherland, sy geboortedorp. In 1994 was hy deur die Amerikaanse Biografiese Instituut benoem as die Man van die Jaar vir sy siviele ingenieurswese werk. Koningin Elizabeth II het hom in 1984 vereer met die toekenning as "Companion of the Most Distinguished Order of St. Michael and St. George". In 1992 het F.W. de Klerk hom met 'n goue verdienstelikheidsmedalje vereer.

Dr. Olivier het twee doktorsgrade aan die universiteite van Londen en die Witwatersrand verwerf. Hy het drie eredoktorsgrade van die universiteite van Kaapstad, die destydse Rhodesië en die Oranje Vrystaat ontvang. Onder die sewe boeke wat hy geskryf het, is Dam It.

Hy was met Tollie getroud en het drie dogters gehad - Lynn DEVELIN wat in Londen gewoon het, Ronelle DE VILLIERS van Phoenix, Arizona, en Annelie MARAIS van Kuilsrivier.

Anne Lehmkuhl

Professional researcher specialising in South African historical & genealogical research

http://www.rupert.net/~lkool/ Dankie Anne

Henry Olivier het van Sutherland gekom en in die Louw-huis daar is een kamer afgestaan aan 'n uitstalling oor sy werk en lewe.

David Le Roux leroux.01@gmail.com

Born - 25.1.1914 Sutherland South Africa - 6.10.1994 Jeffreys Bay South Africa

Henry Olivier was born in South Africa and passed his youth in Rhodesia. He graduated as a civil engineer from the University of Cape Town in 1936 and then joined the Sir Alexander Gibb & Partners, London. A resident engineer in Kent until 1942, he was from 1944 a designer of hydropower schemes in Scotland.

After the war, Olivier represented his firm on Iranian water resources development projects. In 1950, he moved to Africa to supervise the construction of the Owen Falls Dam, Uganda, at the Nile outflow from Lake Victoria for the benefit of Uganda, Sudan and Egypt. At the opening of the scheme, the Queen of England invested him Companion of the Most Distinguished Order of St. Michael and St. George. From these days dates his book on the Developments of hydro-potential. In 1968, Olivier also received from the University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg the first Doctorate in Engineering for the development of multi-purpose schemes in Southern Africa.

From the 1960s Oliver was seconded to the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development as project director of the Indus Basin project. It entailed engineering works associated with the water sharing of the Indus River between India and Pakistan. He was therefore intimately associated with the huge Mangla and Tarbela Dams in Pakistan, among the largest works in the 1970s. Later, Olivier played an important role in the Cahora Bassa Dam in Mozambique on the Zambezi River. Once having founded his engineering firm, Olivier was consulted for South Africa's Orange River Project; he therefore had an important role in the design of the Hendrik Verwoerd and the P.K. le Roux Dams. The latter is currently with 107 m the highest dam in Southern Africa and was completed in the 1980s. Besides, Olivier was also involved in the South African Institution of Civil Engineers, was its president in 1979 and later its Honorary Member.

_{Anonymous (1954). Olivier, Henry. Who's who in engineering: lxxiii. Lewis: New York. Anonymous (1968). Dr. Henry Olivier. The Engineer 225: 217. P}

_{Anonymous (1994). Tribute to Dr. Henry Olivier. Siviele Ingenieurwese 2(12): 6. P}

_{Olivier, H. (1962). Irrigation and climate: New aids to engineering planning and development of water resources. Arnold: London.}

_{Oliver, H. (1967). Through and overflow of rockfill dams - New design techniques. Proc. Institution Civil Engineers 36: 433-471; 37: 855-888; 39: 169-172.}

_{Olivier, H. (1972). Irrigation and water resources engineering. Arnold: London. Olivier, H. (1977). Great dams in Southern Africa. Purnell&Sons: Cape Town. Schwartz, I. (2008). Henry Olivier. Personal Communication.}

Hydraulicians in Europe 1800-2000 . 2013

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