Hillside Engineering and Rod Mackay-Sim

We are a design, technology & materials consulting firm headed by Rod Mackay-Sim, located in Sydney Australia.

Our particular expertise and technologies:

concrete lifting systems EdjPro and Locking Klaw
concrete anchoring
concrete fixing systems Unifast.

Contact us by facsimile (612) 9868 4384 or enquiry@hillside.au.com

Rod Mackay-Sim

Curriculum Vitae: Rod Mackay-Sim

Significant Achievements

1973

UNSW BSc. Metallurgy Hons.

1973-77

Sandvik Australia Ltd
Sales Metallurgist

Sandvik New Zealand Ltd
Steel Division Manager

Specification of stainless and high alloy steels to solve corrosion problems in the petrochemical and chemical industries

Introduced Duplex Stainless Steels to control pitting and stress corrosion cracking, particularly for hot potable water tanks in the brewery and meat processing industries

Developed weld procedures for hot and cold rolled duplex stainless steels

Developed weld procedures for multilayer, stainless overlay welding of pulp digesters

1978

Hawker Siddeley Ltd
Management Services
London UK
Marketing Consultant

Developed Sales and Marketing plans for High Duty Alloys Extrusions Ltd

1978-82

High Duty Alloys Extrusions Ltd
Workington, Cumbria UK

Extrusion Manager - High Strength Products

Recovered a 12 million Pound export contract to Germany by reducing scrap rate from over 70% to less than 10% for high value, high technology aluminium alloy extrusions

Improved productivity with optical alignment and extrusion temperature control

Developed a computer model for planning high strength aluminium alloy extrusions

1982-97

Alan H Reid Pty Ltd
Sydney - Australia
Marketing Manager

1985- Managing Director

Grew a small agency based company from less than $500K turnover

to a strong, profitable business of sales exceeding $30million and operations throughout Australia, New Zealand and Singapore

by introducing six ground-breaking engineering technologies (now considered standard practice) in Australia and New Zealand:

Engineering Construction
Concrete Lifting Systems engineered systems for safe lifting of precast concrete panels and products	Swiftlift precast systems designed, developed and manufactured with partners DEHA (Germany) and ARTEON (France). Patents for improved for Edge lifting anchors. Tilt-up systems and design program
Structural Expansion Anchors rational limit state design method based on "proof slip": 0.1mm slip	Developed the Proof Slip design method adopted by Australian Standards AS3850 and Tilt-up codes. Introduced Liebig Anchor & Safety Bolt
Stud Shear Reinforcing efficient shear reinforcement in thin slabs around columns, pile caps and seismic designs	Funded research by Dr BV Rangan to develop a design method for AS3600. Invented the double-headed Studrail, first used in offshore concrete platform "Bream B", now used internationally
Concrete sandwich-panels technology and construction systems	Applied CSIRO thermal modelling to develop comfortable concrete design
Threaded Reinforcing for standard grade reinforcing bars	Devised Reidbar reinforcing solutions to everyday construction problems
Mining Engineering
Compact Strand steel wire ropes for open cast and deep level mining	Significantly boosted performance and productivity through rope life improvements of 50%+ in many mining applications.

Member of Australian Standards committees for Steel Wire Rope & Strand, Concrete Reinforcing Materials, Concrete Prestressing Strands, Powder Actuated Fastenings, Tilt-Up & Precast Concrete

Note: Alan H Reid Pty Ltd and Reid Engineering Systems (NZ) were sold in 1997 to National Consolidated Ltd (NCL) and the steel wire rope business to Haggie Ltd

1997-2000

Reid Construction Systems Pty Ltd
(Div'n of NCL, Austrim Ltd)
General Manager

2000-06

Business and Materials Consulting

A welcome change of direction for 5 years! 2003...took up cycling!

Developed a superior, quick release Tilt-Up lifting claw ("clutch")

Concrete anchorage design consulting

2006 -

Hillside Engineering Pty Ltd

Director and Principal Consultant

Design, research and development of the EdjPro system - an improved system for edge lifting thin concrete panels comprising "EdjPro hairpin" lifting anchors, recess former system and a new EdjPro lifting clutch. EdJpro systems eliminate edge cracking problems speed erection and reduce the cost of thin concrete panels.

Design, research and development of a new Locking Klaw, and improved lifting clutch for safer, faster and more economical lifting of spherical head "Haeussler patent" lifting anchors.

EdjPro and Locking Klaw lifting systems are available from our licensee Unicon Systems in Australia and New Zealand where they are exclusively distributed by Cookes in NZ.

The Unicon companies were established to manufacture and market our systems.
Rod Mackay-Sim is the Technical Director of both Austaliand and New Zealand companies

Continuing research for the development of a rational design method for anchorage capacities of anchors in the edges of thin concrete panels with a paper presented at the Cement and Concete Institute of Australia Conference, "Concrete09" discussing a new design method for Edgelifting of thin Concrete panels.

And...Lots of Cycling for charity...
Five times finisher in the Hartly Challenge (Canberra-Charlottes Pass-Canberra) raising money for Hartley Lifecare - helping disabled people lead happy and productive lives.
Six years in the Sydney to Surfers cycle ride, raising money for youth Off the Streets, helping young disadvantaged people become happy and productive citizens