Dr Brett C. Phillips is a Director of Cardno NSW/ACT who has more than 31 years of experience in managing and undertaking a wide range of hydro-environmental assessments, catchment management studies, flood studies, floodplain management studies, flood mitigation and stormwater quality investigations for Government and Industry clients. He was the Project Manager, Team Leader or Senior Engineer on 30 projects that have received 39 Divisional and/or National engineering excellence awards from the Engineers Australia, Stormwater Australia, Stormwater NSW, Consult Australia and from other prestigious organizations since 1987. He is an author or co-author of more than 180 papers published in international and Australian conference proceedings and journals on sustainable development, integrated catchment management, flooding and floodplain management and hydrology.