Sir Alan Muir Wood has died. A tunnelling engineer of world renown, past Chairman of the British Tunnelling Society, first President of the International Tunnelling Association and a past president of the Institution of Civil Engineers, he passed away peacefully at the start of February.
A family service was held at his home in Berkshire, England. A memorial service will be held later this spring in central London.
With passion for a broad range of engineering, Sir Alan was a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering and the Royal Society, and took a proactive stance in founding the ITA to promote the tunnelling profession. He was Senior Partner of Sir William Halcrow & Partners over 1979-84, and was knighted in 1982 for his services to civil engineering.
Martin Knights, current President of ITA, said: “Sir Alan had a formidable intellect. He wrote and spoke widely about many issues in the tunnelling world.
His achievements were many. His wide circle of government and business colleagues and friends, and his family, will surely miss a man who influenced everything that he was involved in and whose legacy to the Engineering profession is well documented and acknowledged. I shall also miss a good friend and advisor.”
