RHSV Gallery Downstairs, 239 A'Beckett St
Melbourne, Victoria 3000 Australia + Google Map

Engineering Heritage Victoria and the RHSV present this event in partnership. Hugh Ralston Crawford (1876 - 1954) consulting engineer, was a pioneer in reinforced concrete work in Australia. He was granted a provisional patent for monolithic reinforced concrete cavity wall construction in 1907, and he later used the system to erect several concrete houses in Melbourne. In 1910, he designed and built, the heritage listed Sniders and Abraham's cigarette factory at 7 Dewery Lane Melbourne, it was the first wholly…