Connecting, Sharing and Nurturing: Our Technical Communities

 

In line with our strategic growth, we are excited to announce an expansion of our disciplines underpinned by twenty-one Technical Communities (TCs).

Technical excellence is foundational to our tailings, water, and waste management brand. Our Technical Communities will benefit from exceptional and experienced in-house technical leadership, mentoring and training to ensure best-practice innovations for client projects.

 

The TC model will support clients with:

• Leveraging a global transfer of knowledge
• Promoting local innovation
• Access to the best professional skill base for their needs
• The highest consistency in product quality

 

 

Essential Knowledge Networks

Our Technical Communities are groups of ATCW staff linked through a common interest in a specific discipline or area of practice. Our TCs will provide essential networks of knowledge and play a key role in achieving our strategic vision. The focus areas are:

 

 

Our 21 Technical Communities

 

Our Chief Technical Officer, Behrooz Ghahreman-Nejad, has appointed the leaders for ten of the TCs. Each leader is facilitating a team chosen for their merits to develop a strategy framework of priorities for the next 6-12 months.

 

Behrooz Ghahreman-Nejad, Chief Technical Officer

 

 

TECHNICAL COMMUNITY: Construction Management and Support
LEADER: Joe McLeod

 

 

TECHNICAL COMMUNITY: Dam Break Modelling
LEADER: Thomas Lu

 

TECHNICAL COMMUNITY: Engineer of Record
LEADER: Genevieve New

 

TECHNICAL COMMUNITY: Geotechnical Investigation
LEADER: Dr Yuqi Tan

 

TECHNICAL COMMUNITY: Governance and Risk Assessments
LEADER: Arezoo Farhadi

 

TECHNICAL COMMUNITY: Materials Characterisation
LEADER: Dr Michael Munro

 

TECHNICAL COMMUNITY: Numerical Modelling
LEADER: Dr Alfredo Arenas

 

TECHNICAL COMMUNITY: Resources Recovery
LEADER: Nick Brown

 

TECHNICAL COMMUNITY: Tailings Transport & Mechanical Engineering
LEADER: Dr Sadegh Javadi

 

 

The leaders for the following eleven TCs will be appointed in 2024.

 

• CAD (Design Drafting and Terrain Modelling)
• Closure and Rehabilitation
• Dams Engineering
• Geosynthetics
• Hydraulics and Structural Engineering
• Hydrogeology
• Landfill Engineering
• Project Management
• Seismic Hazard
• Tailings Management
• Water Resources

 

 

 

 

Technical Community Leadership

Over the year, we will introduce our technical community leaders, beginning with Genevieve New, Principal Engineer, who leads our Engineer of Record (EOR) technical community.

 

Engineer Of Record Services

Genevieve New – Principal Engineer

 

Genevieve is a geotechnical engineer with 23 years of experience specialising in tailings and water storage facility planning and design. A Chartered Professional Engineer and Fellow of Engineers Australia, Genevieve is renowned for her civil and geotechnical engineering leadership.

 

Her expertise spans geotechnical site investigation, embankment design, risk assessment, and governance, among other areas critical to facility safety and performance. For the past three years, she has provided engineer-of-record services.

 

To learn more about the history and requirements of the EOR role, please read our interview with Genevieve.