Adam Beck steps down from the Smart Cities Council, Victoria Black moves on from WSP. Paul Lassemillante retires after 34 years with RLB, and vale city-shaper Peter Slattery.
Adam Beck is stepping down after almost six years as founding executive director of the Smart Cities Council in Australia and New Zealand. Beck previously led the development of the Green Star Communities rating tool for the Green Building Council of Australia and spent three years in Portland as director of innovation for EcoDistricts. Over six years, Beck has steered the smart cities agenda in Australia, establishing the Digital Twin Hub, Smart Cities Academy and Centre for Data Leadership. After leaving the Council in April he will start work on several projects, including Urbanism.Live – a new platform which promises to “explore the edges of digital, data and urbanism”.
In sad news, one of Australia’s most successful quantity surveyors, Peter Slattery (pictured), died in January. During his long career, Slattery provided strategic advice on some of Australia’s most experimental and eye-catching public buildings, including the Melbourne Recital Centre and the Australian National Museum in Canberra. He also cost-managed ground-breaking projects like RMIT’s Storey Hall and Building 8, to name a few. Slattery was, as ARM Architecture’s Ian McDougall says, in a league of his own. “He was a mentor to many experimental and courageous young architects, and his innate understanding of risk – or lack of risk – meant architects could achieve interesting designs,” McDougall says. Buildings like RMIT’s iconic Storey Hall, designed by ARM, benefited from Slattery’s skilled cost planning and put RMIT on the map as a university of modern architecture and design. Slattery’s work also helped to inspire other universities and government agencies to adopt a new type of architecture. Slattery was a long-time contributor to the Victorian Chapter of the Australian Institute of Quantity Surveyors, and his company, under the direction of two of his six children, Sarah Slattery and Josh Slattery, remains a valued member of the Property Council. Vale Peter Slattery.
Victoria Black, WSP’s head of stakeholder engagement and strategic partnerships, is moving on after nearly three years. Black has taken up a new role as director of clients, markets and engagement with SYSTRA, one of the world’s leading engineering and consulting groups specialised in public transport and mobility solutions. She will be part of SYSTRA’s executive leadership team.
After 34 years with Rider Levett Bucknall, director Paul Lassemillante will be retiring at the end of March. A skilled quantity surveyor, Lassemillante has contributed to some of the Northern Territory’s most significant projects, including the Darwin Waterfront, the Darwin Marine Supply Base and the Darwin Correctional Centre and several high-profile projects at Charles Darwin University.
CBRE has appointed Will Carman to lead its Brisbane metropolitan investments team. Carman will focus on development site sales and office transactions in the sub-$20 million price bracket. He joins CBRE from Savills, where he was recognised with one of the company’s peak national awards in 2020 for his leadership and business excellence ahead of receiving an outstanding performance award in 2021.
JLL has expanded its NSW capital markets team with the appointment of executive director, James Barber. With more than $10 billion of office transactions, under his belt, Barber was most recently with Colliers and was focused on the disposal or acquisition of investment grade property and large-scale development sites across Australia.
Ray White Commercial WA continues to grow its team, with Luke Pavlos to lead the WA leasing division. With 20 years ofcommercial property experience, real estate is in Pavlos’ blood. His father, the late Jim Pavlos, was a well-known Perth real estate agent. Pavlos junior will pursue his passion for CBD office leasing and the sale of offices and commercial development sites with Ray White Commercial.
Bates Smart has appointed five new senior leaders to drive the firm’s design, business and operations. Mark Healey has been promoted to director following his exceptional contribution to Bates Smart’s interior projects over almost two decades. Studio director Claudia Fleuter is an architect with recent major projects including the Frankston Hospital redevelopment. Practice director Janine Koll leads practice management in the Sydney studio, while Sharon Kuhnell leads in Melbourne. Amanda Rogers has been promoted to business development and marketing director.
Jackson McDonald has expanded its property, planning and environment team with the hire of local regulatory lawyer Mustafa Yildiz, who was most recently the executive manager for governance and legal at the City of Wanneroo.
Real estate capital group Yarraport has employed Jeremy Price as a senior executive in its newly-formed Queensland operations team. Price previously held a senior role with ANZ, with responsibility for managing major portfolios. He will originate and structure property capital transactions and assist trading businesses.