Alan Ginns, Director

Alan has over 24 years experience in recreation and open space, protected/natural areas, natural/cultural heritage, and environmental planning and management. This experience has been gained within both the public and private sectors. Complementing this extensive experience, Alan holds formal qualifications in town planning and natural resources.

 Alan's extensive experience includes over 20 years in a variety of planning and management roles with two national parks agencies – in New South Wales (NPWS) and the Northern Territory (CCNT and PWCNT) – with more than 10 years in senior or managerial roles within these organisations. Alan's experience also includes earlier roles within a national planning consultancy as well as in local government.

Alan's professional experience ranges from masterplans for major conservation and tourism developments to the preparation of statewide protected area network strategies, through resources surveys/reporting and environmental impact assessments, to plans of management for small reserves and open space areas or management regimes for individual visitor use sites.

Andrew Ginns, Director  

 

Andrew has over 19 years experience in recreation and environmental planning and management. Andrew has held senior planning roles with three state conservation agencies, managed an environmental, recreation and open space planning team for local government and been a principal planner with an Australian multinational consultancy. Andrew's expertise covers the areas of recreation planning, land management, reserve and environmental management and strategic land use planning. Andrew is experienced in the management of projects involving multi-disciplinary teams and the integration of a diverse range of inputs to achieve results meeting client, environmental and community needs. 

Andrew has provided planning input to recreation, environmental and land management planning projects ranging from those with a strategic land use focus to those involving detailed assessments of specific recreational issues. He has a good understanding of the range of issues relevant to the use and management of recreation areas and environmental reserves, having prepared eleven Plans of Management for local government managed open space as well as numerous recreation specific studies and strategies.

In recent years Andrew has managed the Lands, Environmental and Cultural Heritage disciplines during major gas and water pipeline infrastructure construction projects throughout Australia.

Ron Billyard, Senior Environmental Officer

Ron offers a wealth of experience in environmental planning and management, cultural heritage management and stakeholder/community consultation with particular strength in dealing with indigenous peoples. His 17 years experience has been accumulated in a variety of environmental planning and management roles in several states of Australia as well as East Timor. An integral part of all of these roles has been engaging with the local community and other relevant stakeholders.

At a personal level Ron has a strong personal commitment to social justice, community development, indigenous community’s economic development and the environment.

Ron is currently fulfilling a Cutltural Heritage management role on the QSN3 gas pipeline project from Wallumbilla to Moomba.

Peter Monsted, Senior Environmental Officer

Peter is a senior environmental consultant with significant experience in the mining and resources sector as well as linear power and transportation infrastructure projects.  His 10 years of ecological and environmental planning and management experience has been gained through positions with state government agencies and several national engineering and environmental consultancies. 

 

Peter is currently fulfilling a senior environmental management role on the pipeline joint venture component of the Victorian desalination project.  Prior to this, he provided environmental management services to Origin Energy in their gas field operations and has been involved with overseeing environmental compliance on gas well, pipeline and associated infrastructure in the Surat Basin .  Other gas industry related work includes environmental/biodiversity assessments of the Sydney to Newcastle Gas Pipeline easement and the Munmorah Gas Pipeline Project. 

Peter has a Bachelor of Science (Resource and Environmental Management) from Macquarie University , Sydney. 

Craig Gibson, Environmental Officer

Craig has a very strong environmental research and manageemnt background having obtained a PhD and Bachelor of Science in Environmental Science.  His career includes periods with a a state government conservation agency, a Sydney based ecological consultancy and a well respected veterinary research firm.  He has providied field support to early field work for selecting gas pipeline alignments and support infrastructure required for gas pipeline construction.

 

He possesses very well developed communication and liaison skills and has experience managing small teams, liaising with community members and state government agencies and departments as well as local governments. 

 

Craig is currently fulfilling an environmental management role on the pipeline joint venture component of the Victorian desalination project.

 

Brett Rodgers, Land Liaison Officer

Brett brings a mix of tertiary environmental qualifications and a wealth of community consultation, environmental management and planning experience to the role of Land Liaison Officer.  His dual skills mean he is well placed to undertake the land liaison role but also lend support to the environmental discipline as necessary.  Brett’s rural upbringing also means he has an understanding and appreciation of farm management issues.

Brett offers almost 12 years of hands on community consultation and operational environmental management and environmental planning experience.  His 9 years of open space management for local government required ongoing community and stakeholder consultation and involvement for various construction projects.  His most recent experience has involved the provision of consultancy services to local governments with regard to on ground management of open space construction projects, environmental assessments and approvals for open space projects, the development of environmental management plans and advice on cost effective environmental management of projects. 

Prior to 1997 Brett spent 14 years in various hands-on roles in the turf management industry including tradesman, foreman and area co-ordinator and as such has an appreciation of construction projects from the crew members’ perspective.

 

Georgina Wright, Environmental Officer

Georgina has over 10 years experience in environmental and recreational planning and management. She has held a senior role within a NSW Local Council during which she managed a range of environmental, recreational and cultural projects. Gerogina also filled the role of Senior Planning and Environment Officer within the Queensland Government and has been previously employed by an environmental consultant within a consultancy firm in Sydney.

Georgina’s expertise covers strategic land use planning, recreation planning, environmental management and cultural planning. Georgina has managed projects requiring input from multi-disciplinary teams, including different levels of Government, the private sector and the community. These projects have included community consultation to ensure a planning process that meets community needs and those of the client.  

Associated Specialists

 On a project specific basis, Gondwana Consulting is able to call on a network of specialists. We have established working arrangements with a number of specialists in the fields listed below that enables us to put together the team best suited to the specific demands of your project.

  • Landscape Architecture
  • Ecology/Flora and Fauna Assessment
  • Heritage Assessment and Conservation Architecture
  • Archaeology
  • Demography
  • Geographic Information Systems
  • Traffic and Transport Planning
  • Environmental Engineering
  • Quantity Surveying

     

     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
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