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Principal Forensic Engineer - Structural and Civil Peter Paras

Specialties & Experience

General Specialties:

Engineering - Civil

Specialty Focus:

Structural Design, Residential, Consulting Engineering Practice, Footings, AS2870

Education:

Bachelor of Engineering (Civil), RMIT University, 1985-1988 Graduate Diploma of Business (Management), APESMA/Deakin University, 1993-1994 Master of Business Administration (Technology Management), APESMA/Deakin University, 1995-1996 Nationally Accredited Mediator (NMAS)

Years in Practice:

38

Number of cases in the last 4 years:

40

Additional Information

Chartered Professional Engineer with over 35 years of Structural and Civil Engineering consulting experience, for residential, commercial, and industrial buildings and structures. Structural design and documentation of houses, extensions, residential developments, multi-unit buildings, commercial buildings, industrial buildings and structures, water and wastewater structures. Expert reporting and Structural/Building assessments of building damage and defects, inspections and forensic investigations, damage causation and expert witness reports for legal proceedings at VCAT, Building Appeals Board and Courts. Services provided to property and asset owners, strata and owners corporations, lawyers, insurers, loss adjusters, builders, and government. Building inspections and assessments, building and footing movement investigations, protection works assessment and general structural and building advice. An Accredited Mediator and Panel Conciliator at DBDRV, Domestic Building Dispute Resolution Victoria, and a Member of the Building Appeals Board of Victoria.

• Structural and Building Forensic Investigations
• Expert Reports and Expert Witness
• Remediation Solutions and Scope of Works
• Structural and Civil Engineering Design
• Protection Work assessment

Registered Professional Engineer, Victoria (RPEV), Structural and Civil - Building Endorsement
Registered Professional Engineer, Queensland (RPEQ)
Fellow Member, Engineers Australia (FIEAust)
Chartered Professional Engineer (CPEng)
National Engineering Register (NER)
Member, Colleges of Civil Engineers, Structural Engineers, and Leadership and Management, Engineers Australia
Member of Engineers Australia, Professional Conduct Committee (2023-)
Past Member and Past Chair, Structural College Committee, Engineers Australia, Victorian Branch (2018-2024)
Member of Standards Australia Committee BD-085, AS4349 series, Inspection of Buildings (2020-)
Member, Building Dispute Practitioners’ Society
Committee Member, Building Dispute Practitioners’ Society (2019-)
Member, Forensic Engineering Society of Australia
Member, Association of Consulting Structural Engineers Victoria (ACSEV)
Founding Member, Association of Insurance Building & Engineering Consultants (AiBEC)
Member, Building Appeals Board of Victoria

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