BE FIEAust CPEng NER(Structural) GAICDI'm a consulting Structural Engineer in Sydney with 30 years' experience, 18 of which were at Partridge, where I was a director and business owner. After helping to grow the business from an office of 15 to over 80 staff, I opted to leave Partridge at the end of 2023 to pursue new challenges and horizons. I established AD Consulting Engineers to provide a more personal and bespoke service to architects and builders in the domestic, residential housing sector. My work and passion chiefly revolves around the structural design, documentation, and construction supervision of high-end, architect-designed, residential luxury houses, with a particular flair for concrete. Also smaller-scale commercial projects; healthcare projects; schools, civic and local government projects; forensic structural investigations and reporting; and also the occasional low-rise, multi-residential development. I enjoy the clever, innovative and efficient design of concrete, steel, masonry and timber, and I love collaborating with architects! I'm also the proud design engineer behind several projects that received "Excellence in Engineering" awards from the Association of Consulting Structural Engineers in 2014 and 2016; and two projects that won the National Medallion for "Excellence in Concrete" from the Concrete Institute of Australia in 2017 and 2019. A writer at heart, I'm a keen contributor to the structural engineering blog, "The Working Engineer" - see www.theworkingengineer.com.au - and I've also written feature articles for the respective magazines of Engineers Australia and The Concrete Institute of Australia. Not shy to be behind a microphone, I also often get roped into MC'ing and hosting industry events and functions such as awards nights, conferences, gala dinners, and the like. I'm also heavily involved in the whisky industry, where I'm a Keeper of the Quaich - but that's another story. I utilise LinkedIn only for my engineering pursuits, but you can check out my whisky exploits at www.whiskyandwisdom.com and www.smws.com.au