Kings College London
Which employer did Peter Frank Stott work for from 1983 to 1989?
Peter Frank Stott Peter Frank Stott CBE ( 8 August 1927 – 16 August 1993 ) was a British civil engineer . Specialising in prestressed concrete , he designed several bridges in Australia . Stotts work on the Hammersmith flyover brought him to the attention of the London County Council where he was appointed deputy chief engineer . He subsequently became chief engineer and was appointed Director of Highways and Transportation upon the creation of the Greater London Council . He became one of the first joint controllers at the council when the planning department became part of his remit . Stott left the council to become Director-General of the National Water Council . He was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1978 and in 1983 became a professor at Kings College London . Stott wrote a 1987 report on the use of open level crossings on the rail network that led to a significant change in British Rail policy and served as president of the Institution of Civil Engineers for 1989–90 . Career . Stott was born in London on 8 August 1927 . He worked as a structural engineer and by the age of 28 was made a partner in the firm of Guy Maunsell . Stott was an expert in the use of prestressed concrete and designed the Kings Avenue Bridges in Canberra , Gladesville Bridge in Sydney , Tasman Bridge near Hobart and the Narrows Bridge in Perth – all in Australia . After he completed the design of the Hammersmith flyover for London County Council ( LCC ) he was appointed deputy chief engineer by the LCC in 1963 . Stott had particular responsibility for the councils road network before becoming chief engineer upon the death of Francis Fuller . In 1965 Stott was made Director of Highways and Transportation upon the creation of the Greater London Council . He brought in experts from the United States , offering greatly increased salaries to attract the best candidates , a system that helped increase the salaries for engineers across the UK . Stotts eight years as director saw the construction of Londons first motorways and the extension of computerised control to two thirds of the citys signalised junctions . His role expanded in 1969 when he assumed control of the planning department , becoming one of the councils first joint controllers . Stott served as president of the Reinforced Concrete Association in 1964 , of the Concrete Society in 1967 and of the Institute of Highway Engineers in 1971 . Stott left the London Council in 1973 to take up the post of Director-General of the newly founded National Water Council , a position he held for ten years until the body was dissolved . In this period he was also Secretary General of the International Water Supply Association . In 1978 Stott was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the Queens Birthday Honours of 3 June . Between 1983 and 1989 Stott was Nash Professor of Civil Engineering at Kings College London . Stott was commissioned by the British government to write a report into the use of open ( unguarded ) level crossings on the British Rail network following the Lockington rail crash in which a passenger train collided with a van on a level crossing resulting in the deaths of nine people . Stotts report was published in August 1987 and led to a significant change in British Rail policy and the installation of barriers or reduction of train speeds at 75 locations . Stott was appointed chairman of the Quality Scheme for Ready Mixed Concrete in 1989 . He served three terms on the council of the Institution of Civil Engineers and was its president between November 1989 and November 1990 . Stotts portrait at the institution shows the Hammersmith Flyover in the background . Personal life . Stott married Vera Watkins in 1953 and the couple had two sons . Stott died in Truro , Cornwall , on 16 August 1993 .