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<import_note> The imported title was longer than allowed. Full title from import file: Property Department (1958 - 1970) / Property Division (1970 - 1984) / Property Department (1984 - 1990) / Property & Works Department (1990 - 1994) / Facilities Department (1994 - 2003) / Facilities Management (2003 - 2017) / Estate Management (2017 - ) </import_note> One of the objects of the NSW University of Technology Act 1949 was that the university provide 'facilities for higher specialised instruction and advanced training in the various branches of technology and science in their application to industry and commerce' (UNSW Calendar 1950:9). While the Buildings and Equipment Committee as a Standing Committee of Council had oversight of the development of the Kensington site, post-war shortages meant that the university initially had to utilise existing technical and educational facilities administered by the Building and Sites Branch of the NSW Department of Technical Education. Construction of new buildings was the responsibility of the NSW Department of Public Works. (The University of New South Wales - Its History and Progress: 6 -7; V583 Manual for General Information for Officers 1951: 137). The Division of the Bursar was established through Resolution 427 (Council Meeting, 10 May 1954) under Section 27 of the Technical Education and New South Wales University of Technology Act, 1949 (Act No. 11, 1949). After the 'Appointed Day' of 1 July 1954 the Bursar was responsible for 'buildings and sites' although most functions such as maintenance of buildings and equipment remained with the Department. The position of Assistant Bursar (Buildings and Grounds) was created and first occupied by R G Sutton on 25 January 1955. (McLintock, Rae. The Development of the Buildings and Grounds of the University of New South Wales: 19) The establishment by the Commonwealth Government of a system of triennial funding on the recommendations made by the Committee of Enquiry on the Australian Universities, also known as the Murray Report, in September 1957 saw the need for the property functions within the Division of the Bursar to expand considerably. (McLintock: 19) At its meeting on 18 March 1958 the Personnel Sub-Committee discussed the 'Creation of Building Planning and Development Section - Establishment of Buildings Branch and Transfer of Buildings Administration from Department of Technical Education'. One recommendation was 'That a Property Section be created within the Division of the Bursar under the Assistant Bursar (Buildings and Grounds)'. It would comprise two clerks and a shorthand-writer/typist. At its meeting on 12 May 1958 Council accepted the recommendations (resolution 58/36). This saw the creation of three sections: Building Planning and Development, Buildings and Grounds (Maintenance) and Property.\r\n\r\nOn 13 July 1970 Council restructured the Division of the Bursar as the Division of the Assistant Principal and Bursar. It was to contain a Property Division to be headed by R K Fletcher, Business Manager (Property) 'covering buildings and grounds matters'. (resolution 70/94) On 12 March 1984 Council reorganised the central administration of the university into two divisions - Administration and Planning and Information - with a reorganisation of functions that had once been undertaken by the divisions of the registrar and the bursar. The Property Department was located within the portfolio of the Deputy Principal (Administration). (resolution 84/5; UNSW Annual Report 1985: 9, 66-67; Focus 16 March 1984: 4-6)\r\n\r\nAt its meeting on 2 February 1987 Council approved that from 1 August 1987 the position of Deputy Principal (Administration) be redesignated as Deputy Principal as Deputy Principal and Registrar and the position of Registrar as Academic Registrar. (resolution 87/7; Focus 13 February 1987: 4) From that date in official publications the division was designated as the Division of the Deputy Principal and Registrar (UNSW Annual Report 1987: 9, 77; UNSW Calendar 1988: 83) The Property Department remained within the Division. (UNSW Annual Report 1987: 77; UNSW Calendar 1988: 85 - 86) In early 1990 the Department comprised the Property Administration Branch, the Accommodation and Works Branch, the Space Management Unit, the Property Maintenance Branch, and the Safety Unit. (04/17/1 Administration Manual: Section P Issued 3/90) On 17 September 1990 Council agreed to the Vice-Chancellor's recommendation that the central administration of the university be reorganised once again. The Division of the Deputy Principal and Registrar was renamed the Division of the Registrar and Deputy Principal. (resolution 90/84) One aspect of the reorganisation was that the Property Department was renamed the Property and Works Department. One of the reasons for the reorganisation was to meet the needs of a major capital works program and new initiatives in the property area. A new unit, known as the Major Works Branch, was created within the Department. (resolution 90/84; Focus 24 August 1990: 3; UNSW Annual Report 1990: 179-180) From 6 July 1992 the capital works function of the Property and Works Department was transferred to the Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Academic Affairs). (Focus 8 May 1992: 11-13; UNSW Annual Report 1992: 171) On 15 February 1994 the Department changed its name to the Facilities Department to bring it into line with similarly named departments in other Australian universities. (Focus 25 March 1994: 1) On 1 September 2003 the Facilities Department was divided into two distinct units: Facilities Management, and Facilities Planning and Development. Both units reported to the Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Resources), Dr Alec Cameron. (Uniken, October 2003: 3; UNSW Facilities Management Newsletter, Summer 2003: 2) In August 2017 the Chief of Staff sent out an e-mail indicating the Facilities Management was now known as Estate Management. Controlling Organisation: UNSW - 12/05/1958-

In a document to the Australian Graduate School of Management Board dated February 1987, it was noted that the Centre for Applied Marketing (CAM) had been approved within the AGSM's Centre for Management Research and Development Ltd (CMRD) by CMRD's Board with Dr J. H. Roberts as the director (file 880749). In the Centre's 1990 annual report, it was stated that Dr Roberts had taken up this appointment on 9 March 1987 and that the main aim of the centre was to conduct major research projects to increase the understanding of consumer behaviour and marketing in the Australian context and to assist Australian marketing managers to apply state of the art techniques (file 2003/2403). On 28 September 1990 the name of the CMRD was changed to AGSM Ltd (file 892164) and so from this date the operations of the Centre fell under this body file (file 2003/2403). In early 1998 the Centre became a joint operation between the Australian Graduate School of Management and the Faculty of Commerce & Economics, with the principle aims of the Centre noted as being to act as a bridge between UNSW and Australian industry to allow for the dissemination of marketing knowledge (file 990795). On 3 July 2006 Council approved the disestablishment of the Faculty of Commerce of Economics and the Australian Graduate School of Management to form the Faculty of Business (resolution CL06/68), with the inaugural meeting of the faculty taking place on 23 November 2006. The Centre thus became a part of this new faculty. On 18 June 2007 Council noted the renaming of the Faculty of Business as the Australian School of Business at UNSW, as approved by the Chancellor, Vice-Chancellor and President of the Academic Board (CL07/33). On 20 August 2007 the Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research) approved the disestablishment of the Centre effective from 30 September 2007 (file 990795). Controlling Organisation: UNSW - c. 01/02/1987-30/09/2007

The Biomedical Engineering Centre is of a multi-disciplinary nature. During 1973 several committees were concerned with the drafting of a proposal to establish a Centre for Biomedical Engineering within UNSW. As a result the university submission made to the AUC refers to this centre as one of the few major development projects proposed for the 1976-1978 Triennium. The university's activities in this area had steadily increased involving staff from the faculties of Medicine, Applied Science, Biological Sciences, Science and Engineering. Academic staff members felt at the time that the existence of such a centre as a formally established entity would help those involved to attract funds from outside sources. The centre was seen as providing a consolidated foundation for work in this area by conducting and sponsoring research; establishing postgraduate programs; sponsoring the development of appropriate undergraduate subjects; and organising conferences, meetings and discussions on biomedical engineering. On 27 August 1974 the Vice-Chancellor, Professor Myers, agreed to the informal establishment within the university of a centre for biomedical engineering and to the establishment of a management committee under the chairmanship of Prof Svensson. The committee comprised Profs NL Svensson (Mechanical Engineering), Chairman, R Huckstep (Orthopaedics), Drs J Loughman (Anaesthetics), M O'Rourke (Cardiology), P Farrell (Chemical Engineering), and Mr P Bason (Electrical Engineering). One of ithe committee's briefs was to plan the future structure and functions of the centre. The Vice-Chancellor provided initial funding of $750 for use by the centre in 1975 with the expectation that the various participating faculties would take over full responsibility for the associated costs in subsequent years. The centre had the support of the deans of the faculties of Biological Sciences, Engineering and Medicine. The major activities of the centre fell in the areas of teaching, research and clinical application. On 24 September 1976, after consideration of the management committee's proposals, the Vice-Chancellor formally approved the establishment of the Centre of Biomedical Engineering in the University of New South Wales as a centre for interdisciplinary studies and developments involving engineering, medicine and the biological sciences. He also approved the management structure of the centre involving an Advisory Board to be responsible for the overall operating policy of the centre and a Management Committee to be responsible generally for the execution of policy objectives, for the control of the staff and financial management of the centre and for the proposals of further research and development projects. In 1977 Professor Peter Farrell was appointed Director of the Centre of Biomedical Engineering. Growth of the centre was rapid. Within a few years the centre had attracted considerable interest in its research activities and received extensive funding from industry, government and private research foundations. Its international reputation in artificial organs research meant that already in 1979 most of its funding for artificial organs research came from sources outside the university (AMA Gazette, 19 July 1979). In 1980 the centre offered postgraduate programs in biomedical engineering for students with either an engineering/ scientific or medical background; it also co-ordinated biomedical engineering research in schools of the university and in hospitals in biomechanics, medical instrumentation, cardiology, physiology and rehabilitation engineering. The centre's growth and success meant that in 1980 it was suggested by senior staff that the Centre for Biomedical Engineering should be located within a faculty to put on it on a more permanent footing. The faulty of Engineering, which had coordinated all the centre's activities since its establishment, was suggested as an appropriate home. In 1981 the centre became a faculty unit within the faculty of Engineering. The position of Director, Centre for Biomedical Engineering in the faculty unit, faculty of Engineering, was established and Professor Peter O'Farrell was seconded to that position effective from 8 May 1981. Administratively within the faculty the unit operated and was treated like any other school. A review of research centres at UNSW by Professor Alan Gilbert in 1990 defined the role of research centres at the university. The Centre for Biomedical Engineering lay outside the guidelines of research centres in respect to the teaching function it provided. Resulting from this the centre sought to have its name changed to the Graduate School of Biomedical Engineering. At its meeting on 5 July 1994 the Academic Board resolved that it be recommended that Council approve the proposed change of status of the centre. Council at its meeting on 29 August 1994 resolved as follows: (CL94/72)(b) That Council approve the proposed change of status of the Centre for Biomedical Engineering to the Graduate School of Biomedical Engineering. The head of school in 2008 was Associate Professor Anne Simmons. Controlling Organisation: UNSW - in year of 01/01/1974-

The second Faculty of Science was established at the 18 June, 2001 meeting of Council (resolution CL001/49) effective 1 July 2001, as a result of the disestablishment of the Faculty of Life Science and the Faculty of Science and Technology. Professor Merilyn Sleigh was appointed as Interim Dean. In 2013 the faculty, under Dean Professor Merlin Crossley, encompassed nine schools and eighteen centres. Subordinate agency: Department (1949 - 51) / School of Applied Chemistry (1951 - 1957) / Chemistry (1) (1957 - 2001) - 01/07/2001 - 31/12/2001 Subordinate agency: Department (1949 - 51) / School of Applied Physics (1951 - 60) / Physics (1960 - ) - 01/07/2001 Subordinate agency: Department (1949 - 51) / School of Mathematics (1951 - 2006) / Mathematics & Statistics (2006 - ) - 01/07/2001 Subordinate agency: School of Biological, Earth & Environmental Sciences (BEES) - 01/01/2002 Subordinate agency: School of Geography - 01/07/2001 - 31/12/2001 Subordinate agency: School of Microbiology (1968 - 1990) / Microbiology & Immunology (1990 - 2001) - 01/07/2001 - 31/12/2001 Subordinate agency: School of Applied Psychology (1954 - 1972) / Psychology (1972 - ) - 01/07/2001 Subordinate agency: School of Metallurgy (1952 - 1985) / Materials Science & Engineering (1986 - ) - 01/07/2001 Subordinate agency: Centre for Marine Biofouling & Bio-Innovation (1994 - 2007) / Marine Bio-Innovation (2007 - ) - 01/07/2001 Subordinate agency: School of Biological Technologies (1986 - 1988) / Applied Bioscience (1988 - 2001) - 01/07/2001 - 31/12/2001 Subordinate agency: School of Chemical Sciences (2002 - 2004) / Chemistry (2) (2004 - ) - 01/01/2002 Subordinate agency: School of Biological Science - 01/07/2001 - 31/12/2001 Subordinate agency: School of Safety Science (1998 - 2008) / Risk & Safety Sciences (2008 - 2010) - 01/07/2001 - 10/12/2010 Subordinate agency: School of Biotechnology & Biomolecular Sciences (BABS) - 01/01/2002 Subordinate agency: School of Biochemistry (1968 - 1991) / Biochemistry & Molecular Genetics (1991 - 2001) - 01/07/2001 - 31/12/2001 Subordinate agency: School of Optometry (1977 - 2001) / Optometry & Vision Science (2001 - ) - 01/07/2001 Subordinate agency: Department of Aviation - 01/07/2001 - 31/12/2010 Subordinate agency: Centre for Advanced Numerical Computation in Engineering & Science (CANCES) - 01/07/2001 - 30/06/2002 Subordinate agency: Centre for Environmental Modelling & Prediction (CEMAP) - 01/07/2001 - 31/12/2005 Subordinate agency: Universities' Surface Analysis Facility - 01/07/2001 - 31/12/2006 Subordinate agency: Centre for Groundwater Management and Hydrogeology (1987 - 1993) / UNSW Groundwater Centre (1993 - 2002) - 01/07/2001 - 06/11/2002 Subordinate agency: Centre for Membrane and Separation Technology (1987 - 1992) / UNESCO Centre for Membrane Science and Technology (1992 - ) - 01/07/2001 Subordinate agency: Centre for Entomological Research and Insecticide Technology (CERIT) - 01/07/2001 - 31/12/2002 Subordinate agency: Centre for Remote Sensing (1981 - 1992) / Remote Sensing and Geographic Information Systems (1992 - c. 2005) - 01/07/2001 - 21/04/2005 Subordinate agency: Institute of Marine Sciences (1968 - 1986) / Centre for Marine Science (1986 - 1997) / Centre for Marine and Coastal Studies (1997 - 2003) - 01/07/2001 - 18/09/2003 Subordinate agency: Centre for Chemosensory Research (CCR) - 01/07/2001 - 01/02/2003 Subordinate agency: Electron Microscope Unit (2) - 01/07/2001 - 31/12/2006 Subordinate agency: Australian Wetlands and Rivers Centre (AWAR) - 01/09/2009 Subordinate agency: Australian Centre for Astrobiology (ACA) - 29/06/2009 Subordinate agency: Australian Tsunami Research Centre (ATRC) (2009 - 2011) / Australia-Pacific Tsunami Research Centre (2011 - ) - 06/10/2009 Subordinate agency: Evolution and Ecology Research Centre (EERC) - 15/08/2007 Subordinate agency: Centre for Sustainable Materials Research and Technology (SMART) - 14/01/2008 Subordinate agency: Climate Change Research Centre (CCRC) - 07/08/2008 Subordinate agency: Connected Waters Initiative - 31/10/2006 Subordinate agency: Clive and Vera Ramaciotti Centre for Gene Function Analysis - 01/07/2001 Subordinate agency: Mood Disorders Research Centre - 01/07/2001 - 14/02/2003 Subordinate agency: Centre for Computer Simulation and Modelling of Particulate Systems (SIMPAS) - 01/07/2001 - 31/12/2007 Subordinate agency: School of Geology - 01/07/2001 - 31/12/2001 Subordinate agency: School of Aviation - 01/01/2011 Subordinate agency: Institute of Environmental Studies - 08/11/2006 - Controlling Organisation: UNSW - 01/07/2001-

After considering the recommendations of the Australian Academy of Science for the monitoring of work involving recombinant DNA and on the advice of the University's Safety Committee, the Vice-Chancellor RH Myers established the University Biological Hazards Committee in February 1979. The inaugural meeting of the Committee was held on 1st June 1979, when Professor PW Gage was elected chairman. (File #33017) The Committee's principle objective was to formulate guidelines for work involving recombinant DNA within the University. In addition it was to monitor and advise the University Safety Committee of any work or project which it considered constituted a potential biological hazard to persons within the University, and to consider applications for permission to engage in any program of work involving recombinant DNA within the University and to report to the University Safety Committee on the outcome of all such applications. (File #33017) By 1980, the Committee had completed its main objective and its proposed guidelines were accepted by the Vice-Chancellor. The Committee then proposed revisions to its role and composition, and on 6th August 1980 the Vice-Chancellor approved its re-constitution as the Biosafety Committee. (File #33017) The Biosafety Committee was to continue and expand upon the work of the University Biological Hazards Committee. Its terms of reference were i) to advise the University Safety Committee on matters of biological safety; ii) to formulate and implement guidelines for work involving recombinant DNA; iii) to receive reports from the Biosafety Officer; iv) to report on its activities to the University Safety Committee; v) to advise departments on safe working techniques in the use of biological materials; and vi) to maintain liaison with extramural organisations concerned with biological safety. (File #33017) The minutes of the Committee date from 3rd April 1981 when the Chairman was Professor PW Gage, however it is possible that the Committee also met before this date. (File #353530) The Committee appears to have been known as the UNSW Institutional Biosafety Committee (UNSW IBC) from about 2002. In 2004 the Presiding Member was Professor Bernard Stewart, Head of the South Eastern Sydney Area Health Service Cancer Control Program. The UNSW IBC reviewed proposals from project supervisors for work that involved Genetically Modified Organisms. The Committee also conducted inspections of and reviewed applications for containment facilities.

The Visiting Committee for the School of Applied Geology was established at the 13 July 1970 Council meeting (resolution 70/119). Visiting Committees were constituted under Resolution 68/137 of Council as a means of establishing a close liaison between industry and appropriate schools of the university. A report by A.H. Willis to the Professorial Board in May 1968 had found that the advisory panel system, dating from March 1950, no longer held any benefits. The report also recommended the abolition of advisory panels by the end of 1968 and the panels to be replaced by Visiting Committees. Resolution 68/126 of the Professorial Board requested A.H. Willis to present more specific proposals on the membership and terms of reference of the proposed Visiting Committees. His following recommendations to the Professorial Board from 11 June 1968 were put to Council though the recommendations of the Academic Committee in their document from 17 June 1968. Council at its meeting on 8 July 1968 resolved 68/137 - that Council adopts the terms of reference and membership of Visiting Committees as set out in the document presented dated 17th June 1968. The document recommended to Council that the Visiting Committees be established by Council on the recommendation of the Vice-Chancellor who consulted with deans and heads of school regarding the establishment of the committee and the chairmanship. The chairman, appointed by Council, was chosen from members external to the university. The terms of reference for Visiting Committees were 1. to appraise the educational programmes of the School in relation to the needs of industry and professional practice 2. to receive and discuss the Annual Report of the Head of the School 3. to report to the Council on the special problems facing the School 4. to aid the development of the School in any way possible The Committee met annually and held its first meeting on 16 March 1971 with Dr E. O. Rayner in the Chair. The Committee was reconstituted every three years. On 2 February 1987 Council approved the disestablishment of the Visiting Committee for the School of Applied Geology (resolution 87/19). Together with the Visiting Committee for the School of Mining Engineering, it was reconstituted as the Visiting Committee for the School of Mines. Controlling Organisation: UNSW - 16/03/1971-02/02/1987

This series consists of Biographical Information of Professor of Mining Engineering, John P. Morgan. The material is a collection of items, including CVs, biographical extracts and other information that provides details about Professor Morgan's professional career.

This series consists of the correspondence of Professor of Mining Engineering, John P. Morgan. The material is correspondence in the form of letters that were initiated or received by Professor Morgan. It includes a range of topics including personnel matters, administrative change, research and professional exchange.

This series consists of Research Papers and Reports of Professor John P. Morgan. Each item is an instance of research, reports or publications of work undertaken by Professor Morgan throughout his career, including his student days. A major focus of his work was on research into wire ropes and this is reflected in the papers. The items are generally arranged in chronological order.

The Department of Applied Mechanics was created within the School of Mechanical Engineering in the Faculty of Engineering at the 26 July 1967 meeting of the Vice-Chancellor's Advisory Committee. The first head of department was Professor N. L. Svensson. On 11 September 1967 Council altered the name of the school to the School of Mechanical & Industrial Engineering (resolution 67/167). On 8 November 1989 the Acting Vice-Chancellor approved the disestablishment of all the departments within the School of Mechanical & Industrial Engineering, including the Department of Applied Mechanics (file 00892512). Controlling Organisation: UNSW - 26/07/1967-08/11/1989