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George Strohfeldt BEng(Civil), MEngSc, LGE(Qld), RPEQ, CPEng(Reg), FIE Aust, FIAMA

George is a Principal of CCI and a Chartered Professional Engineer with over 30 years of industry experience. As a Certified Local Government Engineer with both civil engineering design and construction supervision experience, he is an experienced Contract Administrator and Project Manager, with experience in the development and implementation of pre-construction, construction and post-construction systems and procedures.

His skill areas encompass dispute resolution, providing contractual advice, contractual and security of payment claims preparation, assessment and management, commercial negotiations, preparation of tender and contract documents, probity auditing, contract auditing, facilitation of partnering, risk, opportunity and value management workshops, risk assessment and loss control, and workplace training.

George is a Grade 1 Arbitrator and an Accredited Mediator with the Institute of Arbitrators and Mediators Australia, and a registered Arbitrator with Engineers Australia and the Australian Commercial Disputes Centre. George is an Approved Mediator for the Queensland District and Supreme Courts and the Commercial & Consumer Tribunal, and is also a nominated Adjudicator and Expert in Queensland Main Roads Department contracts and a panel arbitrator and mediator for the Queensland Government's Energy Consumer Protection Office. He is a past National Councillor of the Institute of Arbitrators and Mediators Australia (IAMA), and a past Chairman of the Queensland Chapter of this Institute. He is also a past Chairman of the Engineering Contracts and Dispute Resolution Committee of the Queensland Division of Engineers Australia.

George also presents and facilitates training courses for CCI and holds Certificate IV and Diploma level qualifications in workplace training.

Bruce Woodhouse NZCS, GradDipQual, GradCertLegalSt, MIMC

Bruce is an Associate with CCI. His contract management background includes construction project management roles in the UK, Europe and Africa where he worked extensively on major international infrastructure projects in the oil, gas, mining and power generation sectors. He was then active in the creation and development of a management consulting and training group providing a broad range of services to a government, engineering and construction client base across Australia, New Zealand and SE Asia.

His extensive commercial experience includes a number of years in executive management roles in multi-site engineering service organisations covering operations, finance, marketing HR, IR, new business start-up, acquisition and restructuring. He has substantial consulting and training experience in the mining, power, construction, engineering, manufacturing, service and government sectors, with skills in business diagnostics, audit, contract management, strategic and business planning, management systems and business improvement.

Recent assignments have included contractual advice to Principals, Superintendents and Contractors, the development of procurement and contract management guidelines, audits of major period contracts and advice to both claimants and respondents in the interpretation and application of security of payments legislation.

Bruce holds Certificate IV qualifications in workplace assessment and training. He delivers public and in-house training courses covering a broad range of contract management functions, including contract administration, inspection and superintendence, using the AS 2124 and AS 4000 suites of contract documents, together with clients' own contract conditions.

Greg Kenny BComm. (Law), BEcon.

Greg is an Associate with CCI. He has 30 years of industry experience in the contracts field. This includes full contract management, from tender stage to close-out, in business agreements ranging through consultancies, services, supply, supply and install, construction, design, and alliances. Over the past few years, the focus has been on major construction alliances extending over multiple projects.

Greg has managed teams responsible for contract delivery amounting to several billion dollars, and has served at executive level in both finance and procurement.

For 15 years, Greg lectured part-time at QUT in contract management and negotiation. As an adjunct to this, training was conducted for companies in mainland China, and for the power industry in Queensland.

Greg has a Commerce degree majoring in Law, and an Economics degree, both from the University of Queensland. Apart from the experience already listed, he also served a two-year term as Operations Manager for the Asia Pacific Utilities Group (APUG) which involved companies from China, India, the Philippines, Macau, Australia, New Zealand, Hong Kong, and Singapore.