Rob is an innovative and resourceful manager with considerable knowledge of the road construction industry with over 30 years’ experience in various aspects of road design and construction. He is presently a Principle Pavement Engineer in the Engineering Standards Team at Waka Kotahi NZTA with a national role covering related guidance to maintenance and capital works, reviewing and auditing pavement design and construction. In his career Rob has fulfilled a number of management roles around South Africa, Australia and New Zealand in various road construction-related areas, being materials laboratories, quality assurance, contract and construction management, and asset management. Rob was instrumental in introducing ISO 17025 to South Africa and was a member of the SANAS Civil Engineering Technical Advisory Committee for several years. He has also served on a number of South African and Australian pavement and materials testing-related industry committees, generating industry procedures, policies, standards and test methods and is looking forward to assisting in these committees within New Zealand. He has a Bachelor of Technology in Geotechnical Engineering, and a Diploma and Higher Diploma in Materials Testing (Civil Engineering).

Part of the Winstone Aggregates team for over 17 years, David has worked in a variety of areas, including laboratory, technical and sales roles. In recent times his focus has been on material supply to Major Projects such as Transmission Gully, Peka Peka to Otaki, Waikato Expressway and Puhoi to Warkworth and contributing to innovative solutions for future infrastructure projects across New Zealand David is part of the AQA technical group and contributed to CETANZ through the technical group and management committee previously.