Steve is a mechanical engineer with over 20 years’ experience in the energy industry in both technical and management roles throughout New Zealand.  Steve has extensive experience in early stage technology screening, development of industrial biomass based energy solutions, combustion of fuels and quantification of emissions.  He also has significant experience in the full lifecycle of project development from concept development, environmental investigations, stakeholder management, consenting, detailed design, health and safety, construction, site management, regulatory reporting, site closure and rehabilitation.

Steve currently works on a variety of projects in the air discharge and energy sector that are undertaken out of the Christchurch office.

Areas of Expertise

• Environmental management
• Air discharge assessments and consenting (combustion products, dust and odour)
• Risk management
• Environmental management of mineral exploration programmes
• Combustion of a wide range of materials and their emissions
• Alternative coal based energy technologies including gasification, Underground Coal Gasification (UCG), Coal Seam Gas (CSG), Biologically enhanced CBM (BioCBM)
• Assessment of alternative energy technologies