It’s been a big week for property movements, with MinterEllison, Hindmarsh Plumbing, Integral Group, Sentinel Group, CBRE, SJB, K2 Private Property, Brisbane Airport Corporation and BVN strengthening their teams.
MinterEllison has established a new infrastructure consulting division which will be led by Kay Salvair 
Smith (pictured right). The move responds to demand for “integrated commercial, technical, financial and legal advice on complex infrastructure and development projects,” says MinterEllison’s managing partner Virginia Briggs. Salvair Smith previously worked for RPS Group for nearly five years and most recently with Fusion Advisory.
MinterEllison has made several other promotions from within its property team. Matthew Glenn has been appointed real estate partner in Brisbane. Perth’s Nada Raphael is a new environment and planning partner. Nikki Miller has been promoted to construction partner in Melbourne while Claire Tait rises to the role of construction disputes partner in Sydney.
South-Australian based Hindmarsh Plumbing, part of the Sarah Group, has a new senior leadership 
team headed by new general manager Ben Harrington (pictured left), who has been the company’s commercial manager for the past three years. Matt Sando, who commenced his career with Hindmarsh Plumbing in 1992, is the new division manager for construction. Rhett Hardie, also a long-time employee, is the new division manager for service. Hindmarsh Plumbing has recently worked on the Adelaide Oval redevelopment, new Royal Adelaide Hospital, SAMHRI and currently the revitalisation of Lot 14.
Building services and sustainability practice Umow Lai has joined global deep green engineering and consulting firm Integral Group. Umow Lai was founded in 1991 in Melbourne by George Umow and Dominic Lai, growing to a 170-strong team in three offices. Integral Group was established in Canada in 2008 and now has more than 800 employees in 20 locations. Led by regional director for the Asia Pacific Andrew Mather, Integral Group will now employ 200-plus people across Australia’s east coast.
Sentinel Property Group has appointed Paul McDonnell as director of property. In this new role, McDonnell will be responsible for the property and asset management divisions. McDonnell has held senior roles with AMP, Cromwell Property Group and the Port of Brisbane as well as serving on many committees and boards for the Property Council.
CBRE has two new state leaders in NSW and Victoria. Andrew Roy (pictured left), who led AMP Capital’s property transactions for 15 years, will join CBRE in October to oversee its NSW team. As executive managing director, Roy will also sit on the firm’s Pacific executive committee. Roy held senior roles at Investa and Westpac, and was a research manager with the Property Council in the 1990s.
Meanwhile, Dean Hunt has been promoted to head CBRE’s Victorian business. Hunt assumed the state executive managing director role last week and joins the Pacific executive committee. He succeeds Mark Coster, who recently took on the top job in CBRE’s Pacific capital markets business.
CBRE has also made several senior promotions in its industrial and logistics business. Ryan Korda has been appointed national director, having valued some of Australia’s largest I&L assets. Meanwhile, Julian Volpato, who joined CBRE seven years ago as a senior valuer, has been promoted to director in NSW.
Architecture firm SJB has made three new appointments in Melbourne. Luke Stokes has been promoted to associate of the firm’s interiors arm, while Sarah Thomas and Kate Foldi take on leadership positions as associates in the planning division.
With 45 years of experience between them, Graham Norris and Dan Costello have joined K2 Private Property to launch an industrial division. Norris and Costello, who move across from Ray White Commercial, will focus on the sale and lease of industrial properties across Queensland. K2 Private Property was established as the property division of Keystone Private.
Brisbane Airport Corporation has a new executive general manager for property. Scott Douglas joins the team next month, replacing John Tormey. Douglas was with QIC for nearly 17 years, spending the last 10 as general manager for investment. He has been a divisional council member of the Property Council in Queensland. Tormey, who retires after a stellar 40-year career in commercial property, led the airport’s property division for five years. Prior to this, Tormey ran his own property consultancy business and was managing director of JLL in Queensland for 17 years.
Three new partners join architecture firm BVN. Architect Ali Bounds is the project director for BVN’s team developing NSW’s first vertical high school, Arthur Phillip High School. Interior designer Sally Campbell delivers new coworking and flexible leasing workplace ecosystems. And Peter Titmuss has delivered the Australian PlantBank with the Botanic Gardens Trust, Charles Sturt University’s National Life Sciences HUB and The University of South Australia Cancer Research Institute.