Nathan Cairney
Director

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Kieran Mooney
Director

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Daniel Frawley
Project Director

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Director Advisory
(joining our Sydney office March ’24)

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Tom Harkin
Senior Project Manager

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Radim Heinz
Design and Engineering Manager

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Syne Ding
Project Manager

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Michelle Feng
Project Manager

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Senior Project Manager
(joining our Sydney office March ’24)

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Nathan Cairney

Director

Nathan Cairney is a dedicated and motivated project management professional with a wealth of experience in strategic advisory and project delivery roles. With a proven track record in managing significant projects across various sectors, Nathan possesses a versatile skill set that covers the entire project life cycle.

Take a closer look at Nathan’s qualifications and skills:

  • Master Planning: Crafting comprehensive project master plans to guide development and execution.
  • Development Applications: Navigating the regulatory landscape to secure necessary approvals.
  • Stakeholder Engagement: Building and maintaining effective relationships with project stakeholders.
  • Design Management: Overseeing the design process to ensure alignment with project goals.
  • Procurement: Skillfully managing the procurement of both consultants and contractors alike.
  • Project and Programme Management: Efficiently coordinating project activities and managing complex programs, ranging from several hundred million dollars to multi-billion-dollar programs.
  • Scheduling: Developing and maintaining project schedules to ensure timely completion.
  • Commercial and Contract Administration: Ensuring contracts are administered effectively, with commercial drivers front of mind, and overseeing project execution to contract scope.
  • Project Completion and Handover: Guiding projects to successful completion to operational readiness.

 

Nathan is known for his strong project leadership and his proven ability to form and lead high-performing teams, particularly on large-scale, highly complex projects and programs. His unique talent lies in his capacity to absorb, retain, and synthesise intricate project details while tailoring his communication to suit his audience’s level of detail and understanding.

Kieran Mooney

Director

Kieran Mooney is a seasoned project management professional with nearly two decades of specialised experience in the infrastructure sector. His commitment to excellence and unwavering dedication to his clients have earned him a reputation as an industry leader.

Take a closer look at Kieran’s qualifications and skills:

  • Terminal Strategy Advice: Crafting strategic approaches to terminal development.
  • Master Planning: Crafting comprehensive project master plans to guide development and execution.
  • Interface Management: Ensuring seamless coordination between different project elements.
  • Design Management: Overseeing the design process to ensure alignment with project goals.
  • Equipment Selection Advice: Providing expertise in selecting efficient container handling equipment.
  • Commercial and Contract Administration: Ensuring contracts are administered effectively, with commercial drivers front of mind, and overseeing project execution to contract scope.
  • Team Leadership: Leading and empowering project teams to excel in delivering their responsibilities.
  • Executive-level Delivery Expertise: Leveraging senior-level experience to ensure project success.
  • Operational Readiness: Ensuring projects are well-prepared for smooth operational transitions.

 

Kieran’s ability to apply practical, technical, and commercial acumen enables him to provide comprehensive expertise to his clients. Whether he’s serving in an advisory, program management, or delivery capacity, Kieran seamlessly integrates into client teams, becoming an integral part of their operations. His relentless pursuit of optimal outcomes and commitment to excellence set him apart.

Daniel Frawley

Project Director

Dan has over 15 years’ experience as a construction industry professional working in both Australia (12 years) and the Middle East (5 years).

He has extensive experience across industrial, resource, infrastructure and commercial developments, working for D+C Main Contractors and Client-side consultancy services.

Dan’s skills and capabilities span the whole project life cycle from business case through to funding, authorities, procurement, delivery and completion.

With a background in Electrical Engineering and Building Services, Dan also specializes in providing technical solutions, integration of specialist equipment, and methodologies for delivering and commissioning complex MEP and ITC infrastructure.

Dan has also formed and managed a variety of ECI and D+C contract types for complex projects and is an experienced Project Director and Superintendent. He brings a wealth of complex technical and contractual experience, adding value across the lifecycle of your project:

  • Engineering Management: Driving the design process with technical input on services and infrastructure packages.
  • Procurement: Forming project teams with through robust consultant and contractor tendering processes
  • Complex Contracts: Create and managing complex contracts and schedules ranging from several hundred million dollars to multi-billion-dollars.
  • Operational Readiness: Ensuring projects are well-prepared for smooth operational transitions.
  • Project Commissioning and Completion: Guiding projects from construction and commissioning through to Go-Live and operational readiness.
  • Scheduling: Developing and maintaining project schedules to ensure timely completion.
  • Commercial and Contract Administration: Ensuring contracts are administered effectively, with commercial drivers front of mind, and overseeing project execution to contract scope.
  • Team Leadership: Leading and empowering project teams to exceed expectations in performing their role.
  • Stakeholder Engagement: Building and maintaining effective relationships with project stakeholders.
 

Brad Moody

Director, Advisory

Brad has 10 years’ experience advising clients across the development of complex multi-billion-dollar capital projects in the infrastructure sector, from front-end strategy, feasibility, planning, procurement and delivery, into operations.
Brad leads the Modalus Advisory service offering, having prior long-term advisory experience at both Deloitte and Advisian.

Brad works with clients to optimise the development of major projects, through advising on where and how to deploy capital, and providing commercial rigour to assess, procure and deliver projects aligned to strategic business. objectives. Brad has worked with both public and private sector clients across a diverse portfolio of major multi-billion-dollar capital projects, with a focus on the transport, freight and logistics and industrial property sectors. He has played a leading role in the development and delivery of major rail, intermodal freight terminals and industrial precincts across the East-Coast of Australia.

Brad’s expertise spans the complete project lifecycle:

  • Project Selection: Mapping alternate project options and pathways and coordinating multi-criteria assessments to establish a preferred strategy.
  • Project Feasibility & Business Case: Developing robust business cases and cashflow assessments to establish project feasibility for executive decision making.
  • Commercial Models & Strategy: Designing commercial models and structures to meet business objectives.
  • Planning & Stakeholder Approvals: Strategically navigating approvals processes and developing proposals and advocacy documentation aligned to key stakeholder narratives.
  • Development Strategy: Designing commercially optimal packaging, staging and delivery strategies.
  • Procurement & Transaction Management: Coordinating robust and efficient procurement processes.
  • Contract Negotiations & Commercial Management: Negotiating strong contractual outcomes and providing commercial rigour in delivery.
  • Delivery Models: Designing, establishing and leading effective team structures, including people, processes, systems and governance.
  • Financial Management & Reporting: Designing and implementing governance and reporting processes to provide visibility on key information for decision making.
  • Executive Level Expertise: Documenting, communicating and presenting information targeted at the Senior Management, Executive and Board Levels.

Tom Harkin

Associate Director

Tom is an energetic, engaging and highly capable Associate Director and team leader with over 13 years’ experience in commercial, industrial, and residential construction, with a focus originally on building services and facilities management across each.

Tom’s background stems from working in a hands-on capacity, where he has successfully led teams to deliver large-scale projects in both Australia & the UK. As an Associate Director, Tom manages the full project lifecycle from the authority approvals and design phase, through tendering, contract execution, and superintendency of the contract through construction and onto handover.

Having developed and refined his project management skills through a mixture of hands-on construction, operations management and formal education, Tom thrives under pressure and adapts quickly to any challenge and environment. Complimentary of his technical skills, are Tom’s strengths in stakeholder management. Tom is renowned for building long-standing relationships with clients, key stakeholders, and contractors alike.

Tom’s broad range of experience offers a versatile skillset, including:

  • Commercial and Contract Administration: Ensuring contracts are administered effectively, with commercial drivers front of mind, and overseeing project execution to contract scope.
  • Development Applications: Navigating the regulatory landscape to secure necessary approvals.
  • Stakeholder Engagement: Building and maintaining effective relationships with project stakeholders.
  • Design Management: Overseeing the design process to ensure alignment with project goals.
  • Procurement: Skilfully managing the procurement of both consultants and contractors alike.
  • Project and Programme Management: Efficiently coordinating project activities and managing complex programs.
  • Team Leadership: Leading and empowering project teams to excel in delivering to their responsibilities.
  • Project Completion and Handover: Guiding projects to successful completion to operational readiness.
  • Agreements for Lease: Assisting developers in the preparation of their AFLs to achieve successful commercial outcomes that can sit back-to-back with D&C Contracts.

Radim Heinz

Design and Engineering Manager

Radim has over 20 years’ experience in project and design management, Interface Management, Design co-ordination, construction surveillance and supervision in a wide range of transport and infrastructure projects. He has undertaken projects for a range of private clients and government agencies including TfNSW, RMS, Sydney Trains, SACL and Hutchison Ports.

Through his wide-ranging involvement on major infrastructure and building developments, Radim has gained a deep understanding and knowledge required to deliver large scale multidisciplinary projects.

Radim brings a wealth of qualifications and skills to the table, including:

  • Master Planning: Development of comprehensive and efficient project master plans to allow successful execution
  • Interface Management: Ensuring full coordination between various project consultants and stakeholders.
  • Design Management: Overseeing the design process to ensure co-ordinated design packages.
  • Equipment Selection Advice: Providing expertise in selecting efficient container handling equipment.
  • Commercial and Contract Administration: Ensuring contracts are administered effectively, with commercial drivers front of mind, and overseeing project execution to contract scope.
  • Operational Readiness: Ensuring projects are well-prepared for smooth operational transitions.

Syne Ding

Project Manager

Syne is detail orientated and highly committed project manager and quantity surveyor who has over 12 years’ experience in the construction industry. Syne’s experience spans the industrial, commercial, health and social infrastructure, and transportation sectors, having worked with consultancy firms in Australia, Singapore & Malaysia.

The combination of Syne’s project management and quantity surveying background provides Syne with a strong foundation of experience in procurement, construction contract administration and superintendence, and cost management, and when coupled with her exposure to process improvements and change management the result is Syne’s well rounded capability. Her experience in delivering projects within operational environments has strengthened her stakeholder and change management skill set also and enables Syne to always places the end user’s needs at the centre of mind when considering the solution to issues.

Syne’s broad range of experience offers a versatile skillset, including:

  • Stakeholder Engagement: Building and maintaining effective relationships with project stakeholders.
  • Design Management: Overseeing the design process to ensure alignment with project goals.
  • Procurement: Skilfully managing the procurement of both consultants and contractors alike.
  • Commercial and Contract Administration: Ensuring contracts are administered effectively, with commercial drivers front of mind, and overseeing project execution to contract scope.
  • Project and Programme Management: Efficiently coordinating project activities and managing complex programs.
  • Project Completion and Handover: Guiding projects to successful completion to operational readiness.

Michelle Feng

Project Manager

Michelle has over 6 years’ experience in the construction industry working in various sectors including commercial, residential, rail and social infrastructure. 

Commencing her career working as a structural engineer, Michelle is passionate about the built environment and the multidisciplinary aspect the industry offers. She harnesses both a creative and analytical mindset to solve problems. As a Project Manager, Michelle has been involved in the delivery of several successful education projects and has been exposed to various stages of the project life cycle, from masterplanning through to authority approvals, design, procurement of head contractor, contract execution, construction, commissioning, and handover.

Take a closer look at Michelle’s qualifications and skills:

  • Master Planning: Crafting comprehensive project master plans to guide development and execution.
  • Development Applications: Navigating the regulatory landscape to secure necessary approvals.
  • Stakeholder Engagement: Building and maintaining effective relationships with project stakeholders.
  • Design Management: Overseeing the design process to ensure alignment with project goals.
  • Procurement: Skillfully managing the procurement of both consultants and contractors alike.
  • Project and Programme Management: Efficiently coordinating project activities and managing complex programs
  • Commercial and Contract Administration: Ensuring contracts are administered effectively, with commercial drivers front of mind, and overseeing project execution to contract scope.
  • Project Completion and Handover: Guiding projects to successful completion to operational readiness.

Michelle has a demonstrated track record of delivering precise and high-quality outputs, that contribute to successful project outcomes. Her proficiency extends to effective stakeholder management, and she is widely acknowledged for her ability to foster lasting relationships with clients, key stakeholders, and contractors alike.

Senior Project Manager

(joining our Sydney office March ’24)

Our new Senior Project Manager joining our Sydney Industrial team is a results driven project management professional with over 12 years of industry experience spanning across commercial, infrastructure and complex construction projects. He has a diverse set of capabilities and background from having performed roles as a superintendent’s representative / engineer to contract, consultant project manager, construction project engineer, quantity surveyor, and most recently has spent the last 4 years as consortium manager of a $750m Public Private Partnership for NZ Justice Department.

Project Manager

(joining our Sydney office March ’24)

Our new Project Manager joining our Sydney Industrial team is a highly skilled project management professional, who has extensive experience delivering exceptional project and program outcomes for a range of government clients including Defence, Australian Federal Police (AFP) and Australian Parliament House (APH). She combines practical skills in communication and stakeholder engagement, with project knowledge, to lead and deliver complex activities across all aspects of the project lifecycle and is experienced as a PM/CA (Project Management Contract Administrator), working embedded as a client-side Project Manager in clients teams and in a PMO (Program Management Office) environment.

Chris Gardner

Senior Project Manager

Christopher Gardner ChPP is chartered project manager with a diverse background having worked in five continents (Europe, central Aisia, central Africa, South America, Australia), across different sectors in both infrastructure and buildings. He brings a wealth of experience in leadership, management and delivery expertise, providing a unique service offering to clients. With a proven track record in managing mega projects and forming successful teams, Chris has a history of success across the whole project life cycle.

Take a closer look at Chris’ qualifications and skills:

  • Project and Programme Management: A chartered project manager (ChPP) with the Association for Project Management, recognising a career of successfully managing a diverse range of international projects valuing hundreds of millions.
  • Association for Project Management’s Project Management Qualification (APM PMQ): The UK’s leading project management assessment and qualification.
  • Leadership: Premier leadership training as an officer in the British Army, developed over operational deployments and honed working in complex teams within the construction industry.
  • Stakeholder Engagement: Building and maintaining effective relationships with project stakeholders.
  • Design Management: Coordinating and managing the design process to ensure alignment and support delivery.
  • Procurement: Managing the procurement process of both consultants and contractors, providing value and transparency.
  • Scheduling: Developing and maintaining project schedules to ensure timely completion.
  • Commercial and Contract Administration: Effectively managing contracts, from supporting Clients in selecting the appropriate form to delivering the works. Gained the NEC 4 Project Manager Accreditation: qualified to administer and manage the internationally acclaimed NEC suit of contracts.
  • Project Completion and Handover: “Think to the finish.” Incorporating handover at every stage, from conception to completion, improving client efficiencies and effectiveness.
  • Interface management: A series of projects delivered in live operating environments, managing the interface between Business As Usual/operations and the Project.
  • Undergraduate degree: Politics and International Relations, University of Sheffield.


Chris’ charismatic and professional approach draw together the different specialities needed for a project into one, high-functioning team, ensuing successful project delivery. He is also adept at supporting clients in the strategic management and direction of projects. Chris can successfully work and communicate across the full breadth of the project team and lifecycle.