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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-

On 11 May 1970 Council reformed the Department of Surveying into an independent School of Surveying within the Faculty of Engineering (resolution 70/73). On 27 June 1994 Council changed the name of the school to the School of Geomatic Engineering effective from 1995 (resolution CL94/52d). On 18 June 2001 the school's name was changed again to the School of Surveying & Spatial Information Systems effective from 1 July 2001 (Council resolution CL001/50c). At its meeting on 26 June 2012, the Academic Board resolved (resolution AB12/25) that it be recommended that the Chancellor, Vice-Chancellor and President of the Academic Board approve the proposal to change the name of the school to the School of Surveying & Geospatial Engineering. This was approved effective 1 July 2012. At the 7 May 2013 Academic Board meeting it was recommended that the Chancellor, Vice-Chancellor and President of the Academic Board approve the integration of the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering and the School of Surveying and Geospatial Engineering, and, as a concomitant action, the disestablishment of the School of Surveying and Geospatial Engineering, the ongoing School to continue to be named the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, effective 2 July 2013 (resolution AB13/17). This was approved on 24 May 2013 (file 2011/06825-017). Controlling Organisation: UNSW - 11/05/1970-02/07/2013

On 12 November 1979 Council resolved to merge the School of Chemical Technology with the School of Chemical Engineering together to form the new School of Chemical Engineering & Industrial Chemistry effective 1 January 1980 within the Faculty of Applied Science (resolution 79/157). The first Head of School was Professor David Trimm. On 2 December 1996 Council approved the disestablishment of the Faculty of Applied Science - effective 1 July 1997 (resolution CL96/88/4). Consequently, from this date the School of Chemical Engineering and Industrial Chemistry was moved to the Faculty of Engineering. At the 10 April 2006 meeting of Council the school's name was changed to the School of Chemical Sciences & Engineering (resolution CL06/18). On 29 January 2010 the Chancellor, Vice-Chancellor and President of the Academic Board approved the change in name of the school to the School of Chemical Engineering (file 2002/2060). Subordinate agency: Department of Fuel Technology - 01/01/1980 - 31/10/1996 Subordinate agency: Department of Biological Process Engineering - 01/01/1980 - 31/12/1985 Subordinate agency: Centre for Particle and Catalyst Technologies - 28/09/1988 - 08/03/2004 Controlling Organisation: UNSW - 01/01/1980-

<import_note> The imported title was longer than allowed. Full title from import file: Press / News (1949 - 1988) / Media (1988 - ) Releases of the University / Public Relations Officer (1959 - 1966) / Public Information Office (1967 - 1972) / Public Affairs Unit (1972 - 1988) / Media Liaison Office (1988 - 1999) / Public Affairs & Development (2000 - 2003) </import_note> This series contains press / news / media releases produced for the university. With the employment of a public relations officer this task became one of the Public Relations Officer / Public Information Office / Public Affairs Unit / Media Liaison Office / Public Affairs & Development. The series title change in name of the items from press/ news to media releases appears to have taken place after the Media Liaison Office took over their management.\r\nThe material is typed and maintained in manilla folders in chronological order. The releases are printed on a single piece of paper and provide a brief summary on a recent achievement at UNSW to provide publicity on that endeavour. For the very early days of the university the releases are single typescript pages which survived in the hands of Mr Fraser, in the early days Secretary to the President and Director, then Assistant Registrar, of the university, who had been collecting select university records for the writing of the first university history when celebrating the first ten years of the university's establishment.

On 12 July 1954 Council in principle approved the formation of the Faculty of Commerce and at the same time resolved to establish a foundation chair in Economics (resolution 431iii). On 14 November 1955 (resolution 651) Council accepted the appointment of D. C. Rowan to this chair and so when he took up his position on 1 June 1956, the School of Economics was formed with Professor Rowan as the first head of school. The formal establishment of the Faculty of Commerce was officially approved at the 11th March 1957 meeting of Council (resolution 57/37), with Economics as one of the faculty's first three schools. As a result of a review of the Faculty of Commerce, on 11 July 1988 Council altered the faculty's name to the Faculty of Commerce & Economics effective 1 August 1988 (resolution 88/90). On 3 July 2006 Council proposed the amalgamation of the Faculty of Commerce of Economics and the Australian Graduate School of Management into the newly formed Faculty of Business and consequently the School of Economics became part of this faculty (resolution CL06/68). The inaugural meeting of the faculty took place on 23 November 2006, but by 18 June 2007 the name of the faculty was changed to the Australian School of Business at UNSW (Council resolution CL07/33). On 2 July 2014 the Vice-Chancellor's Advisory Committee approved a change in name of the faculty to the UNSW Australia Business School, effective from 23 July 2014. Subordinate agency: Centre for Applied Economic Research (CAER) - 01/08/1988 Subordinate agency: Department of Industrial Relations - 01/01/1961 - 31/07/1988 Subordinate agency: Department of Economic History - 26/08/1970 - 31/12/1997 Subordinate agency: Department of Economics - 01/01/1961 - 31/12/1997 Subordinate agency: Department of Economic Statistics (c. 1961 - 1967) / Econometrics (1967 - 1997) - 01/01/1961 - 31/12/1997 Subordinate agency: Actuarial Studies Unit - 04/03/1998 - 01/01/2002 Controlling Organisation: UNSW - c. 01/06/1956-

The first annual general meeting for the New South Wales University Theatrical Society (NUTS) was held on 7 March 1986, where the society was established. In the 3 March 1986 edition of Tharunka it was noted that NUTS intended to offer all students of UNSW the opportunity of taking part in student productions (whether it be in lighting, sound production, direction or even acting (V92, CN918/3). In the 2006 NUTS constitution, the principal aims of the society were listed as: 1.2.1 to stage a broad range of theatrical projects involving the students of the University of New South Wales, 1.2.2 to provide a community nexus for students who share an interest in the theatre, 1.2.3 to foster the development of its members' practical theatrical skills (taken from http://www.nuts.org.au - 4/2/08) Controlling Organisation: UNSW - 07/03/1986-

The idea for a community legal centre was first proposed in a paper entitled Professional Practice and discussed at a staff seminar on 2 April 1980 (Clinical Legal Education in papers for School of Law 16 September 1980 meeting). At the 14 October 1980 meeting of the School of Law, a Clinical Legal Education Committee was established to investigate this proposal. This committee reported back to the School on 14 April 1981 and it was then decided to proceed with a concept where two solicitors, who would be members of the full-time academic staff, would be appointed to supervise the work at the clinic and apart from this the subject would also have a seminar component to be supervised by the director of the clinic who would be a member of the teaching academic staff. On 4 May 1981 Dean Professor Ronald Sackville wrote to the Vice-Chancellor Professor Rupert Myers with a proposal for a legal clinic to commence operations from Semester 2, 1981, which in 1981 began on 20 July. After some discussion, on 21 May 1981 Professor Myers approved the proposal as an experiment of about nine months' duration with no forward commitment on anyone's part beyond that (file 035392). This decision was announced at the 2 June 1981 meeting of the School of Law, who gave their own approval to the idea. The first Director of the Centre was lecturer Neil Rees. The Clinic was located at located at 11 Rainbow St, Kingsford and was formerly opened on 9 September, 1981 (Uniken, 4 September 1981). By this time it had become known as the Kingsford Legal Centre and as David Nichols notes in the history From the Roundabout to the Roundhouse, it is not recorded exactly how the 'Kingsford' name took precedence, but it is presumably related to the location of the premises offered by Randwick Council and a desire to include residents of the adjoining Botany area while at the same time retaining a sense of local character (page 10). In a review of the Centre's operations in 1991, its then director Simon Rice also stated that Kingsford Legal Centre was not established as a separate legal entity...It was and remains only a name, used by the Faculty to identify the place at which one of its subjects is taught. The legal practice is in effect a private practice, with the benefit of the professional indemnity insurance and auditing facilities of the university (cited in From the Roundabout to the Roundhouse, pg 10). At the 20 October 1981 meeting of the Faculty of Law, a Kingsford Legal Centre Advisory Committee was established to review and advise on the operations of the Kingsford Legal Centre and on its role in the teaching and other activities of the Faculty. With the opening of the new law building in July 2006, Kingsford Legal Centre was re-located from its position in Kingsford to the rest of the faculty on the university campus. In 2007 the Director of the Centre was Anna Cody. Controlling Organisation: UNSW - by 20/07/1981-

The Department of Electrical Engineering dates back to the formation of the university itself on 1 July 1949, as it was one of the departments that had much of its origins in the Sydney Technical College. The first head of department was H. J. Brown, who was appointed on the same day as the university's foundation. When the first three university faculties were established by Council on 8 May 1950 (resolution 54), Electrical Engineering became one of the initial four departments within the Faculty of Engineering. On 10 September 1951 Council changed the designation of all departments to schools and so the School of Electrical Engineering came into existence (resolution 153). On 8 September 1980 Council altered the name of the school to the School of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science effective from 1981 (resolution 80/139). On 10 December 1990 Council approved the creation of a School of Computer Science & Engineering from the Department of Computer Science within the School of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science effective 1 January 1991. The name of the School of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science then reverted back to the School of Electrical Engineering (resolution CL90/108v). On 9 November 1998 Council changed the named of the School of Electrical Engineering to the School of Electrical Engineering & Telecommunications (resolution CL98/80b). In 2006 the head of the School of Electrical Engineering & Telecommunications was Professor Branko Celler. Subordinate agency: UTECOM Computing Laboratory (1956 - 1960) / Digital Computing Laboratory (1960 - c.1966) / Computing Centre (c. 1966 - 1972) / Computing Services Unit (1972 - 1985) - 01/08/1956 - 03/07/1972 Subordinate agency: Department of Control Engineering (c. 1965 - 1972) / Systems and Control (1972 - 1998) - 10/06/1965 - 31/12/1998 Subordinate agency: Department of Solid State Electronics (c. 1965 - 1982) / Electronics (1982 - 1998) - 01/12/1965 - 31/12/1998 Subordinate agency: Department of Electric Power Engineering - 10/06/1965 - 31/12/1998 Subordinate agency: Department of Communications - 20/12/1964 - 31/12/1998 Subordinate agency: Joint Microelectronics Research Centre (JMRC) - 01/02/1982 - 01/06/1992 Subordinate agency: Centre for Photovoltaic Devices and Systems (1991 - 1996) / Photovoltaics Special Research Centre (1996 - 2002) - 01/01/1991 - 31/12/1999 Subordinate agency: Key Centre for Photovoltaic Engineering (1999-2003) - 01/01/1999 - 31/12/1999 Subordinate agency: Department of Electronic Computation (c. 1965 - 1972) / Computer Science (1972 - 1991) - 26/05/1965 - 31/12/1990 Controlling Organisation: UNSW - 01/07/1949-

The Department of Civil Engineering dates back to the formation of the university itself on 1 July 1949, as it was one of the departments that had much of its origins in the Sydney Technical College, including the first head of the department, C. H. Munro. Initially Munro only worked part-time as head of department, but from 1 January 1951 he became full-time head and an associate professor (Technology, Vol. 1, No. 2). When the first three university faculties were established by Council on 8 May 1950 (resolution 54), Civil Engineering became one of the initial four departments within the Faculty of Engineering. On 10 September 1951 Council changed the designation of all departments to schools and so the School of Civil Engineering came into existence (resolution 153). On 14 September 1964 three departments - water engineering, structural engineering and surveying - were created within the school (Council resolution 64/180). On 21 April 1997 Council changed the name of the school to the School of Civil & Environmental Engineering (resolution CL97/27d). From 1996 - 2005 the Head of School was Professor Ian Gilbert. In 2005 Professor Nicholas Ashbolt took over in this position. Subordinate agency: Management Committee of the School of Civil Engineering - 01/03/1979 Subordinate agency: Department of Water Engineering - 14/09/1964 - 30/06/1998 Subordinate agency: Centre for Wastewater Treatment (CWT) (1987 - 1997) / Centre for Water and Waste Technology (CWWT) (1997 - 2007) / UNSW Water Research Centre (WRC) (2008 - ) - 01/07/1998 Subordinate agency: Department of Structural Engineering - 14/09/1964 - 30/06/1998 Subordinate agency: Department of Structural Mechanics - 02/12/1968 - 12/01/1972 Subordinate agency: Department of Engineering Construction (1973) / Engineering Construction and Management (1973 - 1998) - 08/10/1973 - 30/06/1998 Subordinate agency: Department of Civil Engineering Materials (1971 - 1988) / Geotechnical Engineering (1988 - 1998) - 24/03/1971 - 30/06/1998 Subordinate agency: Department of Transport Engineering - 10/03/1980 - 30/06/1998 Subordinate agency: Water Research Laboratory (WRL) - 10/05/1954 - 14/09/1964 Subordinate agency: Water Research Laboratory (WRL) - 30/06/1998 Subordinate agency: Department of Surveying - 14/09/1964 - 11/05/1970 Controlling Organisation: UNSW - 01/07/1949-

The Department of Mechanical Engineering dates back to the formation of the university itself on 1 July 1949, as it was one of the departments that had much of its origins in the Sydney Technical College. Initially, J. F. D. Wood - lecturer-in-charge of the department while it was still under the control of the college - continued as the de facto head of the unit until a Foundation Professor of Mechanical Engineering could be appointed (OH34). When the first three university faculties were established by Council on 8 May 1950 (resolution 54), Mechanical Engineering became one of the initial four departments within the Faculty of Engineering. On 10 September 1951 Council changed the designation of all departments to schools and so the School of Mechanical Engineering came into existence (resolution 153). On 19 June 1954 A. H. Willis was appointed as the Foundation Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Head of School. On 11 September 1967 Council altered the name of the school to the School of Mechanical & Industrial Engineering (resolution 67/167). On 2 April 1990 the name of the school was changed again by Council to the School of Mechanical & Manufacturing Engineering (resolution CL90/36). From 1999 - 2002 the Head of School was Professor Kerry Byrne. At the beginning of 2003 A/Professor Robin Ford briefly became Head of School, but by mid-2003 Professor Hartmut Kaebernick had taken over as Acting Head of School and shortly afterwards became permanent in this position. In 2007 the Head of the School of Mechanical & Manufacturing Engineering was Professor Hartmut Kaebernick. Subordinate agency: Head of School's Advisory Committee (HOSAC) of the School of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering - 26/09/1986 Subordinate agency: Thermodynamics Committee of the School of Mechanical Engineering - 23/04/1956 Subordinate agency: Course Revision Committee of the School of Mechanical Engineering ( - 1967) / School of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering (1967 - ) - 00/01/1900 Subordinate agency: Course Revision Working Party of the Education Committee of the School of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering - 21/08/1986 Subordinate agency: Higher Degree Committee (HDC) of the School of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering - 04/02/1987 Subordinate agency: School Assembly of the School of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering - 11/06/1987 Subordinate agency: School Advisory Committee of the School of Mechanical Engineering - 23/11/1960 Subordinate agency: Department of Production Engineering (1949 - 1959) / Industrial Engineering (1959 - 1989) - 01/07/1949 - 08/11/1989 Subordinate agency: Department of Agricultural Engineering - 26/07/1967 - 31/12/1985 Subordinate agency: Department of Applied Mechanics - 26/07/1967 - 08/11/1989 Subordinate agency: Department of Fluid Mechanics and Thermodynamics - 26/07/1967 - 08/11/1989 Subordinate agency: Centre for Manufacturing and Automation - 02/07/1987 - 31/12/1996 Controlling Organisation: UNSW - 01/07/1949-