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Bruce Gardiner (President)

General Manager Infrastructure Services

Cairns Regional Council

Glenda Kirk (Vice-President)

Contracts and Project Management Officer, Mareeba Shire Council

Natasha Murray (NAMS-Q)
Senior Transport Engineer, Cairns Regional Council

Hari Boppudi (YIPWEQ)

Director of Engineering, Flinders Shire Council

Danny Lynch

General Manager Infrastructure Planning, Assets & Fleet, Townsville City Council

Neil Allen
Director Infrastructure Services, Townsville City Council

Joshua Flanders (Ambassador)

Graduate - Civil Engineer

Request to join the NQ Branch Committee 

Our thoughts remain with our colleagues in Townsville who now have the challenge of repairing damaged infrastructure and affected services including road networks, dams, sewers and water pipes. We have set up a Forum on our website, Natural Disasters – Flood Recovery where you can post questions or ask for help.

Coming up in May, we have the Croydon Rural Roads Forum with 10 CPD hours on offer. This forum will discuss existing strategies and investigate alternative methods for those involved in road maintenance and rehabilitation and associated drainage issues in northern Queensland. You can register online now with registrations limited to 80.

In June, we’ll see the highly successful IPWEAQ roads symposia in Cairns with the inaugural Northern Roads Symposium. This follows on from the Western Roads Symposium (Longreach) and the Southern Roads Symposium (Toowoomba). No prizes for guessing where next for the roads symposia.

If you’re struggling to attain or maintain your CPD hours for RPEQ, we also have the following workshops scheduled:

• Road Safety Audit Workshop (up to 16 CPD hours), Cairns: 2-3 April 2019
• Erosion and Sediment Control Workshop Level 2 (up to 8 CPD hours), Cairns: 7 March 2019
• Erosion and Sediment Control Workshop Level 2 (up to 8 CPD hours), Townsville: 17 October 2019
• Erosion and Sediment Control Workshop Level 2 (up to 8 CPD hours), and Darwin: 11 November 2019

The vast majority of the courses delivered by IPWEAQ are private courses delivered in-house, tailored for local conditions and for the audience and their skill level. Our training may also qualify for a funding subsidy through your RRTG under the Roads & Transport Alliance SCDF Fund.

We are also keen to deliver more courses in remote areas, so please do not hesitate to contact Craig Moss, Director, Professional Services to discuss particular areas of improvement you need to see in your region.

The 2019 Excellence Awards are now open and ready for your submissions. There is a new online platform this year to make it easier for you to make a submission and to obtain sign-off. There’s also a new category for projects under $1 million and we’re hoping to see a nominee from NQ in all 16 categories – people and projects – to be featured at this year’s awards ceremony and dinner. Nominations close 5 July.

Our colleagues in Central Queensland have also invited us to attend their conference to be held in Rockhampton, 22-24 May 1029. The Call for Papers is now open. UP to 45 CPD hours are available for preparing and presenting a paper at a conference. YIPWEAQ members are also encouraged to submit an abstract and if successful, your conference registration is complimentary.

Bruce Gardiner

NQ Branch President