Barend is currently an Environmental Specialist at Tembo Power Holdings. Since graduating in 1985, he has gained 30 years' experience in the strategic management of environmental aspects relating to the construction of bulk water supply projects such as dams, pipelines and tunnels, but also relating to roads, industrial and residential developments, and recreation and tourism infrastructure.Through the years, Barend gained extensive experience in leading, managing and conducting a range of environmental impact assessments, and the preparation and subsequent implementation of project specific environmental management plans. He has also managed social impact studies in the course of his work, and has experience in liaison with local communities in project areas. He gained significant experience in the contractual aspects of implementing environmental management plans as part of larger construction projects, and the procurement of specialist services for impact assessments. In addition, he has undertaken landscape designs especially for rehabilitation of rock quarries, borrow pits and spoil dumps in relation to tunnels, dams and roads, in addition to purely aesthetic landscape design. Barend is experienced in working as part of consortiums or independent projects teams set up for large scale engineering projects.