Brendan Colgrave
Principal Structural and Civil Engineer at Built Environment Investigations & Solutions- Claim this Profile
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Credentials
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Confined Space (Enter & Work), Work to an Issued Permit and Conduct Local Risk Control
LRI - Life & Rescue InternationalMar, 2015- Oct, 2024 -
Working Safely at Heights
LRI - Life & Rescue InternationalJan, 2012- Oct, 2024 -
Certificate in Safety in Design
Association of Consulting Engineers Australia (ACEA)Jul, 2010- Oct, 2024 -
OHS Construction Induction Training Certificate
WorkCover Authority of New South WalesJun, 2004- Oct, 2024 -
Drivers License, Class C
NSW Roads and Maritime ServicesApr, 2019- Oct, 2024 -
Rail Industry Safety Induction (RISI)
RailCorpJul, 2011- Oct, 2024 -
Work Clearance for Petrochemical Contractors Training
Work Place Clearance GroupJul, 2012- Oct, 2024
Experience
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Built Environment Investigations & Solutions
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Australia
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Civil Engineering
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1 - 100 Employee
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Principal Structural and Civil Engineer
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Mar 2022 - Present
Structural Engineering Consulting Civil Engineering Consulting Remedial Engineering Forensic Engineering Investigations Expert Witness Building Consulting Insurance Specialisation Chartered Structural and Civil Engineer Registered Design Practitioner (Structural, Civil, Facade & Stormwater Drainage Unrestricted) and Principal Design Practitioner for Class 2 Buildings (multi-unit/level residential buildings) under the Design and Building Practitioners Regulations 2021 Structural Engineering Consulting Civil Engineering Consulting Remedial Engineering Forensic Engineering Investigations Expert Witness Building Consulting Insurance Specialisation Chartered Structural and Civil Engineer Registered Design Practitioner (Structural, Civil, Facade & Stormwater Drainage Unrestricted) and Principal Design Practitioner for Class 2 Buildings (multi-unit/level residential buildings) under the Design and Building Practitioners Regulations 2021
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CRD Building Consultants and Engineers
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Construction
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1 - 100 Employee
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Engineering Manager & Forensic Engineer
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Nov 2018 - Mar 2022
• Serviced General Building Loss Adjusters, Executive Loss Adjusters and Liability Loss Adjusters as a Forensic Engineering Consultant. • Action causation investigations and reports on building and engineering related damage subject of building insurance claims. Reinstatement and full building value costings. • Causations range from excavation and ground borne vibration induced damage, swimming pool, building, foundation and retaining wall structural failures and multistorey building basement watertightness failures. • Damage reinstatements for structural failures arising from fire, crash impact, flood and wind damage events. • Matters for public and private sectors in all industries and project scales handled. • Recommendations issued for both immediate make-safe and ultimate reinstatements in project documentation, Council submissions, SOW and Site Instructions. • Manage the TQC of Forensic Structural and Civil Engineering output, BDM and Promotion. • Also handle complex building matters, litigated matters as Expert Witness and technicalities (such as major corporate property loss). • Project Construction Phase and Contract Administration support to Loss Adjusters, Claims Managers and Builders.
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Consulting Structural/Civil Engineering Contractor
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Jul 2015 - Nov 2018
• Deployed to disaster zones after natural disasters (cyclone, fires, earthquakes) across the eastern seaboard. • Took directions from various insurance law firms and engaged by them to appear in cases as an Expert Engineering Witness for various engineering causation and liability investigations. • Serviced General Building Loss Adjusters, Executive Loss Adjusters and Liability Loss Adjusters as a Forensic Engineering Consultant. • Deployed to disaster zones after natural disasters (cyclone, fires, earthquakes) across the eastern seaboard. • Took directions from various insurance law firms and engaged by them to appear in cases as an Expert Engineering Witness for various engineering causation and liability investigations. • Serviced General Building Loss Adjusters, Executive Loss Adjusters and Liability Loss Adjusters as a Forensic Engineering Consultant.
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National Design Manager
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Jul 2015 - Jun 2016
• Worked with a team of 10 Engineers, and external consultants, to design construction details and workshop drawings. • Coordinated with construction, tendering and BD Managers in the preparation of working details, reports and estimates. • Performed design scope, documentation program, creating budgets for time, cost and material quantity. • Liaise with clients over technical alternatives or difficulties, provided ongoing updates and claims justification. • Action contract administration, including review projects at all stages to ensure accuracy and the commercial interests align with terms of cost.
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Forensic Structural and Civil Engineer
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Sep 2013 - Jul 2015
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Associate Structural / Civil Engineer
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Jul 2010 - Sep 2013
• Job Manager & Designing Engineer for Structural & Civil Residential, Commercial & Institutional projects for Privates & Energy/Advertising/Signage/Telco/Petrol Corporates. • Headed the general structures group as well as assisted with other business units of Project Management, Civil, Petrol Retailing Corporates and Restaurant Corporates with Structural and Civil Engineering support. • New Project lead follow-through and fee proposals. Staffing structural projects, checking for technical correctness and monitoring budget and schedule status to completion. • Contribution to company strategy meetings with Directors and Shareholders. • Specified remediation works from concrete cancer & masonry weathering for strata units & telco facility buildings within formal Scopes of Works.
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Associate Structural Engineer
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Sep 2008 - Jul 2010
• Job Manager for Structural projects including residential, commercial and institutional - high rise and large scale. • Assisted with business development tasks, including market research, generating new project leads and service fee proposals. • Initiated PDR application for prequalification with various government agencies. • Assisted the QA Manager with development of QA Systems, Report, Letter and Drafting Standards development. • Initiated, maintained and supervised Quality Assurance for each project. • Coordinated projects with other disciplines of principal Project Managed projects. • Monitored documentation program and forecasted engineering and drafting effort to completion to determine project schedule and budget status.
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Senior Structural & Civil Engineer
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Jul 2006 - Sep 2008
• Job Manager for Structural projects including Hotels & Residential - High Rise & Large Scale, and Job Manager/Designer for Civil Engineering associated with large-scale Residential developments. • Assisted Business Development staff in preparation of fee proposals for Structural and Civil Engineering Projects. • Initiated, maintained & supervised Quality Assurance program for each project. • Attended co-ordination meetings, and coordinated projects with other disciplines of principal Project Managed projects. • Monitored documentation program and forecasted engineering and drafting effort to completion, to determine schedule and budget status of principal Project Managed projects.
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Australian Steel Institute (ASI)
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Australia
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Construction
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1 - 100 Employee
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State Manager – NSW and ACT
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Dec 2005 - Jul 2006
• Maintained regular state based activity levels – technical, marketing and networking, including technical presentations, forums, networking functions etc. • Disseminated marketing materials, including student lectures. • Maintained regular contact with membership. • Event Management for the 2006 ASI Steel Awards and Annual Charity Golf Day. • Monthly management reporting. • Efforts to grow ASI Membership. • Involvement in National Committees as agreed with the National Manager Engineering & Construction (NMEC). • State based committees Secretariat functions including the facilitating, management, note-taking and follow up required for the Engineering & Construction Committees in Sydney and ACT, Manufacturing & Distribution Committee, Safety Committee, AS4100 Sub-Committee and the Fabricator Workgroup. • Contributed to special projects as agreed with NMEC.
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Design Manager
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Jun 2002 - Dec 2005
• Preparation of designs, construction details, workshop drawings and the like for those products in which the Company is engaged in tender or design and construction projects including liaison with the company’s clients over technical difficulties and alternatives. • Co-ordination with the construction, tendering and business development personnel in the preparation of working details, reports and estimates. • Project definition in terms of technical requirements, design scope, documentation program, budget time and cost for design, and budget material quantity design constraints. • Contract Administration – project contract review at all project stages to ensure the companies commercial interests looked after in terms of cost of technical requirement. Claim justification to clients. • Marketing of the Company’s products and services directly to clients, in conjunction with the NSW Manager, through concept design and technical input in order to promote specialist contracting works with the aim of securing work for the company. • Business Development tasks of taking initial client builder requests for works price, developing these into formal structural concepts and proposals, then assistance to business development personnel to finalise technical and commercial aspects of the tenders. • Monitored and controlled design office resources, its efficiency and effectiveness, procedures and standards including the identification of design office training and equipment needs, and ensured the adequacy of the Company’s projects. • Appointment of external design consultants where required for design overload and special projects. • Ensured design Quality Assurance procedures were completed in accordance with the Quality Manual.
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Structural & Civil Engineer Director
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Jul 1999 - Jun 2002
• Developed own business and maintained own client base • Contracted by various consultants including; Jones Nicholson P/L, John Romanous & Associates, Northrop Holmes Engineers and Forrest Engineering Solutions P/L. • Technically managed structural & drainage design and documentation for small scale to multi-million dollar projects. • Business Administration tasks of project estimation and fee proposal, and monitoring project budget and schedule status to completion. • Technically managed office of John Romanous & Associates during director’s six-week leave.
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Taylor Thomson Whitting (TTW)
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Australia
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Construction
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200 - 300 Employee
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Structural Engineer & Job Manager
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Feb 1996 - Jul 1999
• Job Manager for projects including Prestige Residential, Residential - High Rise & Large Scale, Industrial & Commercial to Large Scale, Schools - Private Sector and Hospitals - Public Sector. • Managed teams to 5 engineers and draftspeople allocated to particular projects under my Job Management. • Initiated, maintained and supervised Quality Assurance program for each project. • Attended co-ordination meetings, and coordinated projects with other disciplines of multi-million dollar Project Managed projects. • Monitored documentation program and forecasted engineering and drafting effort to completion, to determine schedule and budget status of multi-million dollar Project Managed projects.
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Structural & Civil Engineer
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Jan 1994 - Feb 1996
• Structural & Civil Design Engineering for a number of small to medium scale projects including Residential, Industrial & Commercial. • Site Supervision during construction for all projects with my design input. • Specialist design tasks involving all aspects of Tilt-Up construction, Tilt-Up panel design for erection and in-service loading and all other associated footings and roof structure. • Structural & Civil Design Engineering for a number of small to medium scale projects including Residential, Industrial & Commercial. • Site Supervision during construction for all projects with my design input. • Specialist design tasks involving all aspects of Tilt-Up construction, Tilt-Up panel design for erection and in-service loading and all other associated footings and roof structure.
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Estimating Assistant & Site Engineer
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Feb 1993 - Jan 1994
• Estimating and tender assistance for a number of infrastructure projects. • Site Engineer posting on large infrastructure project. • Estimating and tender assistance for a number of infrastructure projects. • Site Engineer posting on large infrastructure project.
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Education
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1989 - 1992
UNSW
Bachelor of Civil Engineering (BE Civil), Structural and Civil Engineering
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