Let’s start with a fly-through of your career.
I’m a trained electrical engineer with a postgraduate qualification in lighting design. After graduating, I worked for the Queensland Government for a couple of years and then joined Lincolne Scott, which WSP acquired in 2009. I’ve moved around the east coast of Australia in my 23 years with the company, including Brisbane, Cairns, and Canberra, where I ran the WSP office, and now Sydney. I’m currently our Structures and Civils Lead for New South Wales .
Lincolne Scott engineers were pioneers in green buildings. How has that influenced your career?
Early on I remember visiting the Melbourne office and having a chance to look over the documents for Australia’s very first Green Star building. I was impressed with the groundbreaking work my colleagues were doing. A little later I had the opportunity to work on my first Green Star project, an office building in Cairns, and learned a great deal from the experience.
I have a keen interest in renewable power and zero-emission vehicles and it’s encouraging to see the number of zero-emissions projects we’re winning and to be able to draw on our global expertise.