Richard is a professional engineer with over 20 years’ experience in the built environment in South Africa, Greater Africa and the Middle East.

He is the digital lead at Zutari, responsible for their digital strategy and transformation to adapt their engineering practise during the ever-changing times we live in. Richard is passionate about working smart, being paper-less and raising the bar for the way our industry delivers solutions.

He believes in using technology as a tool to enable human ingenuity and is excited to see how our industry transforms to adopt modern approaches to work and project delivery.

Richard is also a civil engineer.His project experience covers projects in South Africa, Swaziland, Lesotho, United Arab Emirates, Libya, Saudi Arabia, Morocco, Democratic Republic of Congo, South Sudan, Nigeria and Bahrain.

SPECIAL INTERESTS

• Interesting in how Digital Twins could change our approach to design
• Construction and operation of Infrastructure in South Africa
• The 4IR strategy and the National Development Plan

QUALIFICATIONS OBTAINED

• Architectural Applications Engineer
• Civil Engineer
• BIM Consultant