Clive Broadbent
Engineering career, research and publications
Clive Broadbent’s engineering career spans building services, cooling-water risk management and public-health research. Explore his professional history, honours and selected publications.
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Books, chapters, standards contributions, journal and industry articles, and conference papers document decades of work in building services and public health.
Cooling-water systems
Risk management and the development of microbial-control standards.
Standards and technical contributionsSARS and indoor air
Published work on the engineering lessons of the SARS response.
SARS, WHO and IAQBooks and manuals
Longer works on mechanical services, building systems and Legionella control.
Browse books and manualsA career connecting engineering and public health
Clive’s professional history spans engineering design, building-services risk management, research and technical education. His work includes cooling-water systems, air-handling plants and contributions to engineering standards and publications.
- Thirty-seven years in the Commonwealth Public Service, including senior responsibility for mechanical engineering.
- Research into Legionella control, standards development and practical risk-management plans for buildings and industrial facilities.
- International engineering work, including the World Health Organization’s SARS response in Beijing in 2003.
Read the full career and professional record · The Beijing assignment
Honours and recognition
Recognition includes AIRAH’s James Harrison Medal for 1992, presented in March 1993; appointment as a Member of the Order of Australia in 2000; induction into the ARBS Hall of Fame in 2012; and the ASHRAE Distinguished Service Award in 2019.
Research and standards
Clive’s work brought together field research, engineering practice and microbial-control standards for air-handling and water systems. He is a former Chair of the committee responsible for AS/NZS 3666.
Professional experience
Clive Broadbent & Associates Pty Ltd has undertaken water-system assessments, technical reporting, specialist advice and expert witness work, indoor air quality studies and mechanical-services design.
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