David Rivett Email & Phone Number

Cairns, Australia

•Impact assessment and options analysis of transport and other infrastructure.•Integration of natural resource management and planning instruments. •Heritage interpretation, ecotourism development and recreation planning.•Biodiversity conservation, natural resource management and strategic planning.•Aquaculture planning, impact assessment, licensing and environmental management.•Environmental management and environmental engineering.•Management of multidisciplinary studies. •Community engagement (including multi-media solutions).•Expert witness (P&E Court.)

Cairns, Australia

Impact assessment and environmental planning work including environmental audit of Johnstone Shire, impact assessment work for transport and electricity industry, dredge spoil disposal assessments for Cairns Harbour and miscellaneous urban bushland studies.

Brisbane And Cairns

Design engineer for various civil and structural projects involving industrial pavements, subdivisions, haul roads, drainage works, power station civil works, materials handling, pollution control and minor structures.Manager of Main Road Section and later Special Projects Section in Cairns office.

London, United Kingdom

Structural engineer for various aspects of off-shore (North Sea) oil platforms, including structural design, ship impact analysis and wave slamming study.

London, United Kingdom

Responsible for water supply and irrigation pipelines and minor structures for major township (Jubail 100,000 population, Saudi Arabia). Tasks included pipeline design, solution of numerous infrastructure conflicts and maintenance of project interface system for co-ordination of design work being undertaken by other specialists and consultants for Lingowi Halcrow Balbour Joint Venture (appointed by Bechtel).

Sunshine Coast

Resident engineer (1978-79) responsible for detailed supervision and contract administration of Cooloolabin Dam project, consisting of a concrete gravity dam, intake tower, steel pipeline, tunnels, earth saddle dams, access roads and clearing.

Brisbane

Design engineer for various civil and structural engineering projects (1976-78) including concrete gravity dam and pipeline, sewerage treatment plant, sewerage reticulation, residential subdivisions, industrial pavements, steel framed warehouses and miscellaneous structures.

Bachelor Of Engineering, Civil Engineering

Master of Natural Resources (Unviversity of New England) 1995

Year 12

Activities and Societies: Rugby, Debating, Public Speaking, Army Cadets (CUO), Interact (President, District Secretary), Prefect, Athene.

Education record