page_title: Harold Harding
section_title: Institutions and awards
hierarchical_section_title: Harold Harding / Institutions and awards
caption_attribution_description: English: Section of the first of a pair of plaques listing past presidents of the Institution of Civil Engineers. The names shown cover 1955-1965. Taken at a Wikipedia editathon at the Institution of Civil Engineers, at their headquarters, One Great George Street, London.
context_page_description: Sir Harold John Boyer Harding was a British civil engineer. Harding was educated at Christ's Hospital and the City and Guilds College, interrupting his studies 1918-19 with a one-year period spent as a cadet in the Officers' Training Corps. Following graduation Harding worked for Mowlem where he specialised in tunnelling work for London Underground including the reconstruction of Piccadilly Circus tube station and the expansion of the Central line. In the 1930s he and Mowlem were instrumental in introducing geotechnical processes to the UK.
  Upon the outbreak of the Second World War, Harding was placed in charge of defence and emergency repair of underground services in London. He built pre-cast concrete petrol barges and eight of the Mulberry Harbour segments used in the Normandy Landings. He was also a founding director of Soil Mechanics Ltd, a subsidiary of Mowlem dedicated to work in geotechnics. After the war Harding was involved with investigations into the feasibility of construction of a Channel Tunnel and sat on the tribunal investigating the Aberfan disaster of 1966.
context_section_description: Harding served as President of the Institution of Civil Engineers from November 1963 to November 1964. He was also the founding chairman of the British Tunnelling Society from 1971–73 and was a founder fellow of the Fellowship of Engineering in 1976. Harding was elected a fellow of the City and Guilds of London Institute in 1952 and of Imperial College in 1968. He also received a knighthood on 13 February 1968 and was awarded an honorary Doctor of Sciences degree from City University London in 1970. Harding served as a governor of three separate academic institutions, Westminster Technical College from 1948–53; Northampton Engineering College from 1950–53, and Imperial College from 1955–75.
caption: Harding's name on the list of Institution of Civil Engineers presidents, at their One Great George Street headquarters
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