Graeme is Technical Director of Contaminated Land with more than 42 years’ experience, initially in construction management and water resources and geotechnical investigations. For the last 29 years, he has specialised in contaminated land assessment, remediation and management, contaminated land policy and guidance, groundwater investigation, monitoring and development, and landfills and hazardous waste disposal.
He has a BE (Hons 1st Class) and PhD in Civil Engineering from the University of Canterbury and is a Certified Environmental Practitioner – Site Contamination Specialist (CEnvP (SC)). Graeme’s contaminated land experience has involved hundreds of investigations across many site types and contaminants involving all environmental media, with site-specific risk assessment and derivation of soil guideline values and waste acceptance criteria. He has been author and coauthor of a several statutory guideline documents.