With 25 years’ experience in Queensland local government engineering roles, including 11 years with Brisbane City Council (Council) as the Manager of Asset Management, Joe has focused his career around public infrastructure - particularly roads, drainage and stormwater, Buildings, Parks and Property and more recently smarter assets solutions such as Smart Poles and Smart Lighting and smarter ways to collect information about our assets.

Currently and always focussing on systems, processes, asset recognition and people improvements in an organisation where asset management practice is established and highly regarded.

Through his role as one of Council’s Senior Engineers, Joe has played a key leadership role for championing the development of Council’s Engineers and engineering staff to build capability and capacity, mentoring and promoting opportunities for RPEQ and creating opportunities for continued professional development (CPD).

Joe was active in the recovery of Brisbane's damaged infrastructure following the January 2011 flood. Like many others this has been paramount to the flood recovery efforts following on from the February flood event in 2022, with Joe leading the works associated with infrastructure recovery and betterment across Brisbane.

Dr Pape has over 20 years’ experience as a civil/structural engineer in the transport sector across a broad number of areas, including consulting, construction, public service and academia. 

Her work on managing existing bridges has been internationally recognised with awards such as the 2013 ICE Structures & Buildings Palmer Prize and best paper by PIARC as part of the 2023 World Roads Congress.

Torill is active in several engineering and technical committees (including Austroads and PIARC), is involved in the critical review of technical papers, standards, guidelines and specifications, has several articles published in national and international scientific journals, and regularly presents at conferences, seminars and workshops.

She is a co-author of the Austroads publication "Engineering Guideline to Bridge Asset Management" and has an interest in bringing the principles of ISO 55000 and ISO 31000 to life in structural asset management.

With over 20 years of consulting and asset-owner experience, Gloria’s has designed and facilitated highly participatory processes to engage board, executives, operational staff, customers and community stakeholders. For example, as Sunwater portfolio strategy manager, she shaped the vision for long-term investment, securing buy-in and adoption internally and externally through a series of internal and external multi-stakeholder workshops. The workshops were designed to be collaborative and solutions-focused, with a range of staff, customers, community, councils, industry groups, chambers of commerce and government departments in attendance.

David Saunders’s expertise as a construction lawyer covers the entire lifecycle of projects, including procurement and probity advice, drafting contractual documentation, negotiating, contract compilation, contract administration and claims advice.

He regularly assists Government and corporate entities with major projects and has provided advice on various large infrastructure projects and funding agreements. He has acted for a range of Local Governments and Government Owned Corporations on a variety of civil infrastructure projects, water treatment and wastewater treatment projects, buildings and upgrades, asset lifecycle maintenance projects, beach nourishment and waste and recycling projects.

Innovative approach to managing rural water & wastewater infrastructure

Geoffrey Smart
Langtree Consulting