Our People

A founding Director, Jason has over 20 years of international and local experience. A highly motivated and positive person, a key focus for Jason is client delivery. He builds client relationships through trust, respect and integrity, providing a clear and concise interface between the client and the consulting team.

A founding Director, Laurent has over a decade’s experience in the industry. With a practical knowledge of all engineering disciplines, Laurent’s passion is delivering innovative and creative solutions to his clients. He is a forward thinker with an energy and enthusiasm that drives our vision of creating great environments with great people.

With over 30 years of consulting engineering experience and specialising in mixed use, retail, commercial, education, recreation and health sectors, Michael’s expertise includes mechanical, fire safety and hydraulics. Overseeing the Melbourne office, one of Michael’s key attributes is his passion for our people and driving a great company culture for our team.

With over 27 years’ experience across several highly complex, landmark Australian Projects, Gavin runs the Sydney office. His wealth of knowledge and experience across all building services engineering disciplines along with his passion for client satisfaction, has given him an exceptional ability to listen, question, innovate and deliver innovative solutions to our clients.

Russell has 19 years of consulting experience with significant tertiary education project experience and provides a leadership role of continuously challenging prescriptive built environment benchmarks. This philosophy and a proven record of applying research on projects successfully aligns with the outcomes Universities are striving to achieve.

With deep technical skills in infrastructure design and construction, along with extensive experience in data centres, financial institutions and the hospitality sector, Darren bring over 30 years of knowledge and expertise to the team.

Sophie, originally from the UK, brings an international perspective to advise on a wealth of sustainable building outcomes. She is an accredited professional in both Green Star and the WELL Building Standard. An advocate for the Living Building Challenge, she is also one of eleven WELL Faculty in Australia.

With a wealth of building services design experience across a range of significant projects in healthcare, retail and commercial John has exceptional attention to detail. His strong project presence has continually ensured his team utilises a coordinated approach and implement modern technologies when developing solutions for our clients

Marthinus has more than 20 years’ experience as an engineer in Australia, South Africa and Dubai and has worked on projects across a variety of sectors, with his focus predominantly on retail and healthcare. Marthinus provides a wealth of technical experience from both a contracting and consulting perspective to ensure quality delivery of our projects.

Jon has been with the Sydney office since the beginning. Originally from the UK he has both international and local experience in electrical and building services design. Leading ADP’s workplace division, Jon has also covered a vast range of sectors including residential, medical, retail, commercial and education.

A personable engineer, Mathew is passionate about client delivery. His collaborative, cross-discipline approach reduces traditional project delivery silos – resulting in a coordinated approach to service delivery. An Associate Director with over 20 years’ experience, he manages the fire and hydraulic teams as well as leading delivery of all building services.

With 16 years industry experience, Michael has dedicated his time and passion to health projects. He is committed to working on project that serve the wider community and his key experience has been designing and leading teams on a range of healthcare and aged care projects in Australia. Michael’s involvement within the Health group ranges from technical design, services planning, room data management and documentation to client liaison and project leadership.

With over 18 years’ experience in the engineering industry, James is an Associate Director in our Sydney office. His experience covers a broad range of areas including process engineering, reliability, project management, construction and building services consultancy.

Leading our Laboratory sector, Nigel is a chartered mechanical building services engineer with strong technical and practical experience in both Australia and overseas. Nigel understands the complex challenges and processes that are involved with the design of laboratories from start to finish and beyond and will bring considerable experience and lessons learned to multifaceted projects.

With 30 years’ experience, Tim’s passion to deliver the life safety elements to the places we work, the places we play and the places we sleep, has always been reflected through his exceptional work around fire protection systems. Leading the fire services team, Tim has the ability to embrace any projects vision and deliver the fire design with creativity, flexibility, efficiency and architectural sympathy.

For the past 18 years, Dave has consulted on and led a vast range of lighting projects both in Australia and overseas. As a very active member of the lighting community, he regularly contributes to industry publications, organises industry events and is a past Victorian President of the Illuminating Engineering Society. Dave’s passion is lighting, and he prides himself on being able to find creative and aesthetic solutions to challenging briefs.

With over 15 years of experience in acoustic consulting, Tom is passionate about his craft, adding value to every project he is involved with. His key experience lies in building acoustics including design for theatre, room acoustics and MEP design in addition to environmental noise, vibration assessments, construction noise and mitigation techniques.

Specialising in system design, documentation and project management on commercial audio visual projects and control system technology, Greg has over 20 years of experience in the design and engineering of complex audio visual integration projects, reinforced by a background in electronic engineering and as a musician and producer.

Tom has over 18 years’ experience in the building services industry, and has worked in many sectors ranging from government, commercial and education, to large industrial and infrastructure projects. He is passionate about delivering innovative design solutions to our clients and takes a holistic approach to integrated services and control solutions in buildings.