COMMUNITY UNIKEN August 2003 • 12

Scholarship recognises sports medicine pioneer
by Christine Kearney

David Garlick.
A scholarship in recognition of Dr David Garlick, a pioneer in the field of sports medicine and a former faculty of medicine academic, will be launched later this year.
    Recognised as one of the leading educators and researchers in health science and sports medicine, Garlick died of cancer in April last year.
    The $1,500 David Garlick Memorial Scholarship for Health and Sports Science will be awarded annually to a student in the bachelor of science in health and sports science program.
    Throughout his life and the 30 years he spent at the University, Garlick maintained a commitment to physical activity, especially distance running and cycling.
    Much of his physiology research focused on the health and fitness benefits of physical activity.
    He realised the extent to which the treatment of sporting injuries had been neglected. In 1984 he established an annual two-week sports medicine course for medical practitioners.
    This became the basis of a masters and a graduate diploma course in sports medicine. His work in these foundation courses was also		 incorporated into the UNSW undergraduate degree in health and sports science and led to UNSW being recognised as a leader in the field of sports medicine.
    Gwen Harrigan joined UNSW in 1991 as manager of the sports medicine programs being developed by Garlick.
    The pair married and together found the funding for the new masters of sports medicine, bachelor of science in health and sports science and bachelor of science in prosthetics and orthotics.
    UNSW’s Sports Medicine Centre attracted experts from industry and local and overseas graduate students, many of whom are now working in the sports industry.
    Garlick also established Sports Doctors Australia and was founding president of the organisation.
    “David had an untimely death because he was in the midst of expanding these programs,” said Harrigan.
    “He would be thrilled by the idea of the scholarship because he was always there for the students.”
Scientia team reunited
for international award
by Christine Kearney
The Scientia has won another prestigious award, the Outstanding Structures Award from the Swiss-based International Concrete Foundation (fib).
     UNSW’s senior construction manager, Paul Turner, said the award recognises the quality of the work in the building and unique features such as a special concrete mix, dubbed UNSW 80, used for the first time in the Scientia.
     “We developed UNSW 80 with our clerk of works, Paul Roitman, and the RTA to overcome our concerns with the standard concrete mix available in Sydney, which is proving to have an unacceptably short life span for some University buildings,” said Turner.
     The project team also put a lot of work into the concrete finishes for the Scientia’s site-poured and precast concrete elements.
     “Joiners rather than formworkers made the formwork for special finishes. We also built several prototypes in unseen areas till we got it right. We even had our own supervisor fulltime at the precast factory to ensure the high quality we desired,” said Turner.		 By great coincidence, the dedication ceremony to mark the award was held in the Scientia last month, exactly four years to the day since its completion, and the Foundation Day dinner celebrating UNSW’s 50th anniversary was held there.
     The ceremony also marked a reunion of the team who worked so hard to complete the Scientia to a tight deadline and budget.
     The team consisted of Paul Turner and Paul Roitman from UNSW, Seamus O’Connell, Laurel Robinson, Reno Tomasiello and Ian Paver of Bovis Lend Lease, Richard Francis-Jones, Jeff Morehen and Conrad Johnston from FJMT architects, Richard Green from Taylor Thompson Whitting structural engineers and Peter Goh of Project Cost Planning.
     The prestigious international award is given every four years. The only other building to win in the last four years was the Tower a la Defense in Paris.
     The Scientia has received 10 other awards including the Sulman award for public architecture.
Paul Turner in the Scientia.