Hugh Golder

Hugh Quentin Golder (* 1911; † 1990) was a British civil engineer (geotechnics).

Golder studied civil engineering at the University of Liverpool with a bachelor's degree (1932) and a master's degree. Afterwards, he worked at the Forest Products Research Station (where he dealt with the structural properties of wood) and from 1937 in the Department of Ground Mechanics of the Building Research Station (BRS) at Leonard Frank Cooling. Right at the beginning, he investigated the causes of Chingford Dam's failure (William Girling Reservoir on London's drinking water supply, the embankment crumbling during construction in July 1937) in the north of London, which was also investigated by Karl von Terzaghi and Alec Skempton. In 1942 he moved to the construction industry and went to John Mowlem & amp; Co., where he worked under Rudolph Glossop. In 1943 he founded Glossop, his own geotechnical engineer company, Soil Mechanics Ltd., where he remained until 1958. At the International Conference for Soil Mechanics and Foundation Engineering of 1948 in Rotterdam, the first after the war, which reflected the boom in soil mechanics since the last conference in Harvard in 1937, he presented five works that still belonged to his time at the BRS. In 1958, he resigned from Soil Mechanics Ltd., as he disagreed with the treatment of his friend, the well-known tunnel engineer, Harold Harding. He went to Harvard for Arthur Casagrande, where he gave lectures for Terzaghi. An order to investigate the feasibility of a bridge to Prince Edward Island brought him into contact with Canada and in 1959 he moved to Toronto. He initially worked as an independent consulting engineer. In 1960, he founded a global engineering and geotechnical office with Victor Milligan, Larry Soderman (from whom the proposal was founded) and other Golder Associates, with around 7,000 employees in 160 offices in 30 countries (2010). The headquarters is at Toronto. At first Golder and Milligan were the shareholders, today the company is owned by the employees.

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