Richard Heggie is the company's founder and Managing Director and Chairman of the Board of Directors. He is responsible for Corporate Management and takes corporate oversight of the company's OHS and Quality Management Systems. He has served as Chairman of the Association of Australian Acoustical Consultants, as a Federal Councillor for the Australian Acoustical Society and been a Member of various Technical Committees of the Standards Association of Australia.

Richard is a Fellow of the Institution of Engineers Australia and has over thirty years' experience in acoustics and vibration and broad environmental impact assessment. He represents major client projects at Public Inquiries and Land and Environment Court Hearings and plays a key role in bringing an experienced and innovative approach to the company's broadening range of client services.

Richard takes a keen interest in the public consultation processes for controversial or high profile projects and maintains a general overview of all work carried out by the company.

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Glenn Thomas is the Heggies' Company Secretary. In addition, Glenn also takes corporate management responsibility for Equipment Control and Data Systems.

Glenn has been consulting in environmental noise and vibration for over fifteen years, and has expertise in computer modelling of environmental noise, as well as the monitoring of noise, vibration and overpressure emissions from resource, industrial and transportation projects.

Glenn has also presented expert evidence at Public Inquiry Hearings for major resource development projects and is fully conversant with the assessment and licence requirements and development approval processes for such projects.

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Dr Peter Georgiou is a Director of the company and Heggies' Business Development Director. In addition, Peter also takes corporate management responsibility for Project Control and Design Control.

Peter has twenty-five years experience in a variety of fields including wind engineering, building structural dynamics, environmental noise and vibration (for major transportation and industrial projects), solar and ESD/energy assessment as well as environmental risk assessments covering air quality, pollutant dispersion and climate risk (tropical cyclones and other severe storm systems).

Peter has had experience in major international projects in North America, Australia and South East Asia and has represented major clients at Public Inquiries and Local, State and Federal Court Hearings.

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Shane Elkin is a senior mechanical engineer with almost ten years of experience in the acoustic and vibration industry. Shane is the North West Region Manager, and is responsible for market development, human resource issues and quality assurance for Queensland.

Shane is a Member of the Australian Acoustic Society, Institution of Engineers Australia and is a Registered Professional Engineer of Queensland.

Shane has expertise in the measurement and analysis of noise and vibration from roadways, railways, industrial, mining and construction sites as well as the prediction of noise and the design of ameliorative measures. Shane is also highly competent in the use of the SoundPLAN computer model.

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John Cotterill is the Southeast Region Manager. John is a senior civil engineer with over twenty years industry experience specialising in the fields of acoustics and vibration for the last 18 years.

His experience includes evaluation, assessment and control of noise and vibration in a wide range of industrial, resource development and commercial projects with particular expertise in the fields of noise, vibration and blasting control in the mining and quarrying industries.

His skills in acoustics also include building services noise control, preparation of environmental impact statements, airblast and ground vibration monitoring and noise emission computer modelling and analysis.

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David Lindsey has over 20 years experience in a wide range of acoustical engineering projects.

David has a degree in Applied Science, is a Corporate Member of the Australian Acoustical Society, and represents the Heggies Sydney Office at the Association of Australian Acoustical Consultants. Mr Lindsey has specialised in the assessment of noise emissions and the design of practical mitigation measures from transportation systems and defence facilities. He has conducted numerous high profile acoustical studies and assisted in the authority and community consultation process for a number of projects.

David has prepared and presented expert evidence at Court Hearings and Commissions of Inquiry.

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Mark Caslin is an acoustic consultant with experience in environmental and industrial noise assessment and control. Mark has over eight years experience as an acoustic consultant where he worked on a number of environmental and industrial assessments. These projects have included measurement, prediction and analysis of noise and vibration emissions from construction and manufacturing industries, mining activities, materials handling operations and road/rail vehicles.

Mark is competent in the use of the noise prediction modelling software (SoundPLAN) and in developing noise contours for proposed transportation systems and large industrial developments.

Mark is familiar with the application of environmental legislation, at local, State and Commonwealth Government levels. Mark has been involved on a large number of projects requiring project management skills, proposal preparation, report preparation.

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Gustaf Reutersward graduated with honours from the UNSW in Mechanical Engineering and has specialised in acoustics and vibration since 1993. He is the Manager of Heggies’ Melbourne Office, having benefited from the experience of managing Heggies branch offices in Newcastle and Brisbane.

Gustaf has a broad range of experience in a variety of projects with specific expertise in the measurement, assessment and control of environmental noise (road, rail, industrial and mining), computer noise modelling, noise mitigation and architectural acoustics, occupational noise exposure, machine vibration condition monitoring and construction noise and vibration assessment.

He has been involved in many high profile transport and mineral resource projects in Australia and Scandinavia and has prepared and presented expert evidence at Commissions of Inquiry.

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Jerremy Lofts has been a project consultant for Heggies Pty Ltd since early 2000. Prior to this, Jerremy worked for EGIS consulting in their environmental and property management sections.

Jerremy has experience in a broad spectrum of acoustical projects, ranging from Industry and transport related acoustics to mechanical, building and architectural acoustics.

Jerremy has been extensively involved in measurement and field analysis, desktop noise modelling and project management for a variety of projects.

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Ryan Heckenberg is a graduate of the Royal Military College of Australia, during which time he earned the Queen's Commission. He is an environmental consultant with experience in Hazardous Materials Management, Soil Contamination, Air Monitoring for Occupational Contaminants and Occupational Noise. Ryan is a certified NATA signatory for Airborne Fibre Monitoring. In his four years with Heggies he has worked on numerous environmental and industrial assessments.

These projects have included measurement and analysis of airborne contaminants from construction and manufacturing industries, materials handling and investigation of effects on people and land uses including providing training to industry and government.

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John is a qualified environmental earth scientist (Geology) with over 14 years experience in the environmental consulting industry. Prior to joining Heggies, John was Team Leader, Contaminated Land and Environmental Risk Management at SKM Perth.

John has provided consulting services to a wide range of industrial and local government clients focussing on the delivery of projects ranging from full scale plant closures, demolition and remediation, regulatory liaison, financial risk management, environmental auditing and due diligence audits and is committed to providing clients with comprehensive and pragmatic solutions to mitigating environmental risks to the satisfaction of key stakeholders.

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Katie completed her double degree program at the University of Newcastle in 2002 with Honours Class 1. As part of her Mechanical Engineering degree program Katie completed two major research projects. The first was a Student Fellowship with the Anglo-Australian Observatory involving the research and testing of an innovative astronomical instrument; and secondly, as her final year project at University, the measurement and analysis of bending strains produced in a 600 Watt wind turbine blade.

Since September 2002, she has been working for Heggies as a Project Consultant in the Newcastle office and recently in February 2009 promoted to the Newcastle Office Manager.

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Brenda Walls is a senior Environmental Scientist and is currently the Townsville Office Manager for Heggies.

After graduating from Monash University with a Bachelor of Applied Science (Hons) in 1998, Brenda became a commissioning Chemist and Environmental Manager for various clients including; Power Stations, Mines and other heavy industrial clients.

Through this work and subsequent managerial roles, Brenda has amassed over ten years experience in the field of environmental science. Brenda has extensive project and contract management experience including; the preparation and technical review of environmental reports, Environmental Impact Statements (EIS’s), Review of Environmental Factors (REF’s) and Environmental Management Plans (EMP’s).

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Nathan is an experienced consultant whose principal areas of expertise are in the management of occupational health & safety and occupational hygiene. He has extensive experience in hazardous materials, chemical safety and workplace monitoring, and regularly works or oversees projects across all states of Australia.

Prior to Heggies' acquisition of New Environment Nathan also coordinated ISO 9001 Quality, AS 4801 Safety, ISO 14001 Environmental and NATA Accredited ISO 17025 Management systems. He is also National OHS Manager for Heggies.

Nathan manages the Health Safety and Environmental Division of Heggies which includes specialists in OHS, occupational hygiene, hazardous materials and environmental science/engineering.

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