We’re back with our Touch base with Team BSE series, this year focusing on our leaders and national team.
Meet Cameron Webb, our Director.
BSE’s champion in Brisbane and power behind BSE’s growth, Cameron’s incredible building and project knowledge, combined with strong local and national partnerships makes him an essential force of BSE. Recently celebrating 10 years with BSE (and BSE in Queensland), Cam’s approach to ensuring designs meet BSE’s project partners brief in a buildable and practical way, combined with incredible capacity to share knowledge with and provide development opportunities for his team set BSE up for ongoing success.
1. What is your background story?
Thought I would spend my professional life as a bricklayer. My dad was a bricklayer, and it was natural to follow him. Turns out it wasn’t a long-term plan, so I started an Associate Degree in Electrical Engineering and joined a large consultancy as their first AutoCAD Operator in the Gold Coast office, really CAD is still my happy place professionally. Overtime, my skills developed, and I finished my degree: I was given the opportunity to work with all disciplines and providing true-multi-disciplinary designs is one of our greatest values adds. I saw how businesses were built – on the golf course, over lunch, proper relationship driven business building. As every young engineer does at one point or another, I moved to a different consultancy and worked my way through to Director. When the opportunity came up to partner with Andrew and start BSE Brisbane, I was excited to bring all my knowledge, multi-disciplinary approach and wanted to work with a smaller firm and be able to leverage relationships. Overtime we organically grew the office based on our good project delivery and client/ partner recommendations.
2. Did you choose engineering, or did it choose you?
I’ve always been around construction, trailing after Dad on sites and liked the building process, it was a natural progression into designing buildings, and bigger and better buildings over time!
3. How do you feel services engineers add value to projects?
Designing places that work, spaces that look after occupants, with efficiency and less impact to the environment, it’s easier than it was 10 years ago. Engineers consider the continual improvement of design and ongoing operational aspects. Upgrading existing buildings, taking old buildings and revitalising the environment, providing better spaces for occupants is an aspect of a building’s lifecycle services engineers excel at!
4. What gets you out of bed in the morning?
All the unique challenges being Director of an engineering consultancy offers – projects, peoples, clients. It’s such a unique blend.
5. Pineapple on pizza: yes or no?
No I am more of a meat lovers pizza fan. However, I would probably give ham and pineapple a go.
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