Our People

The management team

• Vince Manning

  General Manager

  During the three years that Vince has been with GBAR, he has expanded the business from a small Brisbane-based contractor to a truly national operation. He brings a wealth of relevant experience to the company as well as some notable achievements. He project managed the asbestos remediation works for a major insurer after the Brisbane floods of 2011. Vince is a licensed Builder and project managed one of the largest asbestos remediation and reinstatement projects in the GBAR Group’s history.

  Vince regularly advises large clients and industry bodies on asbestos awareness and remediation processes. His areas of specialty include major project management, contractor management, staff mentoring and development, operations planning and control, strategic planning and business analysis and change management.

• Derrick Scott

  National Business Development Director

  Derrick has 20 years’ industry experience in the field of asbestos and hazardous materials consultancy and removal. He studied a BSc (Hons) Building Surveying at university in Edinburgh, but his real interest was revealed by the title of his final year dissertation: Asbestos – The Silent Enemy.

  Derrick has worked throughout the UK, Australia and Saudi Arabia. During this time he has been involved with many multimillion pound/dollar projects involving survey programs and asbestos and hazardous materials abatement programs. He has worked with government agencies and local authorities, airport authorities, banks, local councils, health authorities, construction companies and many other industries.

  Derrick has also been involved with research in the UK into exposure levels to asbestos-containing materials. He is an associate member of the Australian Institute of Occupational Hygienists.

• Mark Walton

  National Projects Manager

  Mark first started out his career in 1996 as an Architectural Technician, before starting a role at Leeds City Council supervising their in-house asbestos removal department. Mark managed various departmental stocks which included health, social services, education, public housing along with the well-publicised Armley asbestos disaster, which involved the contamination of around 2,000 houses, schools, park etc. in a large inner city suburb of city. The contamination was the result of the activities of a local asbestos factory which eventually closed its doors in 1959. Following that Mark moved to a consultancy firm within Sydney Australia, where he has familiarized himself with the range of legislative requirements which exist in each state and territory and has become well versed in the range of industry codes, standards and methodologies as a result of his extensive project experience. During Mark’s time in Australia he has been involved with contaminated sites, emergency response plans, and the preparation of Asbestos Management Plans for Government, Industrial and Commercial organisations. Recently Mark returned to the contracting side of the business, where he now manages major projects nationally for GBAR.

• Clinton Wright

  State Manager - NSW

  Clinton has had over ten years’ experience in the asbestos industry with experience in local and interstate projects involving property risk auditing, hazardous materials and asbestos audits and surveys, occupational and environmental air monitoring, supervision of asbestos removal projects and asbestos air monitoring filter sample analysis.

  His involvement in the industry developed his experience and understanding of asbestos materials removal project management in a wide range of buildings and facilities, from houses, universities and schools to electrical substations and infrastructure, office buildings and other commercial and industrial premises.