• Able to provide planning, environmental assessment, surveying and civil design within the one company.
• Vast experience in the design of large scale flood irrigation enterprises.
• Equipment to carry out soil conductivity surveys.
• Equipment to determine water storage volumes while full or partly full.

• Highly qualified consultants
• State of the Art Technology
• Recognised as a leader in this market segment
• Long Term presence in the market
• Widely respected work culture
• Member of ASIBA. IAA

• AWB Ltd.
• Carrington Cotton
• Auscott
• AFF Limited
• Sundown Pastoral Company
• Twynam Agricultural Group
• WJ & A Seery

Company Directors & Senior Staff

PETER TAYLOR

Director
Bachelor of Science in Australian Environmental Studies - Land and Water Studies
Certificate in Farm Water Supplies
Registered Farm Water Resource Consultant - D.P.I.E.  (W96NC196)
Chairman of the North West Regional Committee of the Irrigation Association of Australia
Member of the Environmental Institute of Australia and New Zealand.

Peter joined the company after five years of employment with the Queensland Water Resources Commission as a Farm Adviser in Central and South West Queensland and two years of Rural Water Supply development in Fiji with the South Pacific Commission. Peter has expanded the Company's irrigation design base, flood analysis skills, project management and provides the skills in environmental assessment and design. Peter has had 25 years experience in the development of rural water supply, irrigation, rural industrial projects, environmental assessment and environmental planning. His experience provides the Company with a multidisciplinary approach to a project to allow a combination of surveying, environmental assessment and management of projects.

PAUL COVELL

Director
Bachelor of Surveying
Registered Surveyor NSW
Licensed Surveyor QLD.
Member Institute of Surveyors Australia
Past Chairman of the New England Group of the Institution of Surveyors
Member of the Irrigation Association of Australia

Paul Covell has had 25 years experience in the Surveying Profession. His experience covers such areas as Cadastral Surveying of property boundaries, survey, design and supervision of small to large engineering projects, and the survey, planning and implementation of small to large irrigation development. These projects involve survey and design of small to large residential developments including the design of roads, storm water, sewerage and water supply systems, to large flood irrigation developments for the growing of cotton, cereal crops and tea tree oil. These irrigation developments involve the preparation of detailed plans for the construction of supply channels, pipelines, water storages and the land-levelling of fields.

  RALPH KINSELLA

Director SMK Consultants Pty Ltd
Director SMK (Gatton) Pty Ltd
Director SDX Pty Ltd
Bachelor of Surveying (UNSW)
Graduate Diploma in Urban and Regional Planning (UNE)
Registered Surveyor NSW
Cadastral Surveyor QLD
Member of SSSI (QLD Division)
Member of SIBA (Consulting Surveyors, Queensland)

Ralph has over 30 years of active experience in the field of Cadastral and Engineering Surveying, Town Planning and large scale Flood Irrigation Development in Queensland and NSW.

Ralph resides in Brisbane and currently actively manages Cadastral Surveys in the Goondiwindi office and oversees the Gatton office.

Ralph’s key areas of competency are

• Cadastral Boundary Surveys
• Building Format Surveys
• IDAS applications
• Irrigation Survey & Design
• Planning & Managing Subdivisions

MICHAEL HENDERSON

Director
Member of the Irrigation Association of Australia

Mike has been actively involved in the survey and design of irrigation projects in northern NSW and southern Queensland for the last 27 years. After 5 years with the then Water Conservation and Irrigation Commission of NSW, he formed and was a director in a local Engineering Surveying Company specialising in irrigation development. For the past 17 years, Mike has been based in our Goondiwindi office as the senior irrigation consultant. He has extensive experience in the planning, survey layout and design of irrigation fields, supply channels, tailwater reticulation systems and on-farm water storages, from the initial investigation through to final construction.

BILL CURRIE

Registered Surveyor

Bachelor of Surveying (University of Queensland)

Bill has gained 32 years experience on Cadastral , Engineering, and Topographical Surveying in both N.S.W. and QLD. He has been with SMK for 8 years and specialises in Cadastral Surveys (residential and rural) from our N.S.W. office. Bill also has extensive experience in Bridge Surveys (control and setout), in and out of the Moree Shire, and Electricity Transmission Line Surveys (11 years Q.E.G.B. QLD).

RICHARD CLOWES

Bachelor of Arts [Double Major in Geography (social geography and earth sciences) Minor in Aboriginal Archaeology].
Graduate Diploma in Urban and Regional Planning.
Corporate Member of the Planning Institute of Australia; Certified Practising Planner.
Richard joined the company from Local Government. In his time with Local Government his roles and responsibilities have involved all areas of Town Planning, Building Surveying and Strategic Planning, as well as environmental assessment and regulatory control. Richard has a sound knowledge of NSW environmental and planning law and the approval processes required by Local Government and the many different state government bodies and authorities.