Charles Cumming
Current Position
Director
CLC Consulting Group Limited
PO Box 51 547
Pakuranga, 2140
AUCKLAND
Mobile: 0274 804 457
Email: charles@clcgroup.co.nz
Office: 09 576 3276
Fax: 09 576 3290
Qualifications
- NZ Certificate Engineering - Civil (1989)
- Registered Engineering Associate (2005)
- Associate Member of IPENZ
Additional Training
- NZ Transport Authority - Site Traffic Management Supervisor (STMS) Level One
- St Johns - Workplace First Aid Certification
- Site Safe - Civil Passport
- Department of Labour - Occupational Safety and Health Site Safety Supervisor
- University of Auckland – Contractual Aspects of Contracts; Block Course
- University of Auckland – Introduction to Effective Project Management, Workshop
- ARC – Industry Development Certificate for Erosion and Sediment Control Plan Preparer, Reg. # 160
- ARC – Industry Development Certificate for Advanced Assessments of Environmental Effects
- NZIHT – Certification for Construction Conflict Resolution
- NZIHT – Certification for Introduction to Pavement Design Using Mechanistic Analysis
- NZIHT – Certification for Supervision of Chip Seal Construction
- NZIS - Continuing Education Certification: Land development engineering
- AutoCAD and 12D Model
- Computer literate - Microsoft Office and Project
Employment Record
Director
- 2007 - present
- CLC Consulting Group Ltd
Manager - Civil & Environmental
- 2002 - 2007
- CLC Consulting Group Ltd
Team Leader - Civil & Environmental
- 1996 - 2002
- CLC Consulting Group Ltd
Senior Engineering Technician
- 1991 - 1996
- CLC Consulting Group Ltd
1991 - 8 month overseas sabbatical
Engineering Technician
- 1989 - 1991
- CLC Consulting Group Ltd
Civil Engineering Cadet
- 1986 - 1989
- CLC Consulting Group
Areas of Expertise
- Land development
- Project management
- Network infrastructure
- Contract administration
- Procurement
Work Experience
Staff Management:
- Procurement of all work including preparation of ROEI, RFT and RFQ submissions.
- Responsible for all work within the civil and environmental teams.
- Co-ordinate training and professional development of staff.
Contract Administration:
- NZS3910 and CCA.
- Engineer’s Representative to Contract.
- Processing of all claims, variations and extensions.
- Local Authorities and Utility Service Provider Projects for New Works, Renewal and Augmentation Projects (Parks infrastructure, stormwater and watermain projects) with individual Contract Values in excess of $3M.
- For residential & commercial land development & roading with individual Contract Values in excess of $4M.
- Preparation of Request for Expression of interest, RFT and RFQ and Contract Documents.
- Evaluation of Expression of Interests and Tender Evaluations and Recommendations (external panel member for the evaluation team - Manukau City Council).
- Conflict resolution.
Construction Monitoring:
- Civil construction projects, including residential & commercial subdivisions, infrastructure & roading projects.
- Sports fields, hard court playing surfaces (tennis, netball, and hockey).
- Bulk earthworks including soil and erosion control and protection measures.
- The level of construction monitoring carried out has generally been to level CM2 and CM3 as described in the ACENZ Construction Monitoring Guidelines.
Engineering Design and Calculations:
- Geometric and structural design of new roads and road upgrading including District Arterial roads.
- Bulk Earthworks.
- Parks infrastructure (walkways, pedestrian bridges, boardwalks, carparks & other facilities).
- Utility services including stormwater, wastewater drainage and water supply reticulation.
- Stormwater catchment analysis, flooding and overland flows, investigations, assessments and reporting.
- Stormwater and wastewater pumping stations.
- Stormwater treatment and attenuation. Hydrological neutrality design and reporting.
- Stormwater soakage systems (shallow and deepbore soakage).
- Cleanfill projects.
- Domestic onsite wastewater disposal systems of up to 4.6 m3 daily discharge to a land disposal field.
- Land development investigation, assessment and reporting to the private sector.
Consent Preparation:
- Resource Consent Applications at Regional Authority and Local Authority level.
- Earthworks and Sediment Control.
- Stormwater Discharge, Works in a Watercourse, Steam Diversion.
- Works Within and Occupation of the Coastal Management Area.
- Trade Waste Discharge.
- Land Modification and Subdivision resource Consent for Land Development.
- Assessments of Environmental Effects.
Consultation/Negotiation:
- Liaison with Regional and Territorial Local Authority officers.
- Liaison with Utility Network Suppliers.
- Consultation and negotiation with Iwi groups and other affected party representatives.
Engineering Drafting:
- Road, carpark and accessway.
- Walkways, cycleways, boardwalks.
- Bulk earthworks.
- Residential and commercial subdivisional land development.
- Public and private stormwater and wastewater drainage and water supply design.
- As-built plans for public drainage and water supply reticulation.
- Structural detailing for commercial developments.
- Residential dwellings.
Surveying Fieldwork:
- Setting-out and as-built location of civil works, including earthworks, roads and drainage.
Engineering Fieldwork:
- Supervision and testing for shallow and deep bore stormwater soakage.
- Soil percolation testing and site assessment for onsite and domestic wastewater disposal systems.
- Soil technician (on contract to Foundation Engineering Limited for an earthworks season).
Other:
- Forum Member for the Manukau City Council’s Engineering Quality Standards (EQS).
