Staff Profile
Dr Rob Staib
Visiting Fellow
| Room: | Off Campus |
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| Phone: | 0412 274 777 |
| Email: | rstaib@wix.com.au |
Profile
I am a Visiting Fellow at the GSE but you can contact me on 0412 274 777 or by email at rstaib@wix.com.au.
I welcome the opportunity to talk to prospective students from any discipline or background about environmental management and how it can be developed within business organizations. I have been convening the GSE 823 course Corporate Environmental Management since 2000 and have been involved with the GSE since 1982 when I started as a post graduate student.
I am an environmental management consultant and engineer, with 40 years experience in engineering management, management consulting, project management consulting and environmental management consulting. In the last 15 years I have specialised in environmental management and quality assurance on large projects. My roles have involved total environmental management responsibility including environmental planning and assessment, obtaining statutory approvals and ensuring environmental compliance of client organisations, project management organisations, design consultants, suppliers and construction contractors.
I have developed and implemented many Environmental Management Systems and Environmental Management Plans to ISO14001 for design, supply and construction and undertaken environmental auditing of design consultants, suppliers and construction contractors. My environmental consulting and management experience includes:
- Introducing environmental aspects into design and design specifications;
- Monitoring compliance with environmental aspects of design, supply & construction;
- Auditing environmental compliance of design, supply and construction organisations;
- Appointing and managing specialist environmental consultants;
- Writing, reviewing, and auditing Environmental Management systems and plans;
- Obtaining development approvals: Dept. of Planning, Councils, Sydney Water;
- Obtaining statutory approvals, licences: NSW and Federal statutory authorities;
- Life cycle assessment, life cycle costing, cost benefit analysis;
- Application of environmental economics to project assessment;
- Application of sustainable development principals to design and construction;
- Environmental risk assessment, environmental hazard analyses;
- Environmental Impact Assessment;
- Aboriginal archaeological: investigations, salvage, monitoring;
- Liaison with Aboriginal Land Councils and other aboriginal groups;
- European heritage: assessment and field excavation;
- Landscape assessment, rehabilitation and restoration; and
- Environmental reporting, environmental training, environmental lecturing.
I have the following professional qualifications and affiliations:
- BE (Mechanical Engineering) (Honours), University of Queensland, 1966
- Post Graduate Diploma in Administration, University of NSW, 1970
- Master of Environmental Studies, Macquarie University, 1986
- PhD in Environmental Studies, Macquarie University, 1998.
- Member, Institution of Engineers, Australia
- Member, Environment Institute of Australia
- Member, Australian Conservation Foundation
Research Interests
Corporate Environmental Management
Environmental Design Management
Business Management Systems
Teaching
GSE 823 Corporate Environmental Management
Selected Publications
Books
- Staib, R. (in progress, publication due 2009), Business Management and Environmental Stewardship.
- Staib, R. (2005), Environmental Management and Decision Making for Business, Palgrave Macmillan, London.
Refereed Environmental Management Publications
- Staib, R. (2004), Urban Development and Indigenous Heritage, Ecopolitics XV, International Conference at Macquarie University Sydney, November 2004.
- Staib, R. (2003), Environmentally Sustainable Design Management, Urban Water Infrastructure, Australian Journal of Multi-Disciplinary Engineering, The Institution of Engineers Australia, 1(1), pp. 9-15.
- Staib, R. (2003), Water Infrastructure & Archaeology in the Rouse Hill Urban Release Area, Australian Planner, 40(1), pp. 21-26.
- Staib, R. (2002), Archaeological Assessment in the Rouse Hill Urban Release Area, Australian Archaeology, 54, pp. 22-28.
- Staib, R. (1998), Pollution Management - An Australian Model, Environmental Management, 22(3), pp 393-406.
Other Environmental Management Publications
- Staib, R. (1999), After Time, Cost, Quality and Scope, now it is Time to Manage the Earth, Australian Project Manager, 19(4), p. 13.
- Staib, R. (1998), ESD and Urban Infrastructure, The Valuer and Land Economist, 35(1), pp. 19-23.
- Staib, R. (1998), Solving Major Pollution Problems: A New Process Model, unpublished PhD thesis.
Environmental Management Conferences
- National Environment Conference at Brisbane Queensland, Environmental Engineering Society, The Institution of Engineers Australia, Environmentally Sustainable Design Management, Urban Water Infrastructure, 2003.
- NPWS NSW Conservation Planners Forum, Private Sector Experiences with NPWS, September 2003.
- Macquarie University seminar, Passing the Torch: sustainable development lessons from the 2000 Olympics, Delivering a Project, March 2001.
- Association of Consulting Engineers, conference on Building around Waterways, Rouse Hill Infrastructure Consortium experience with the Integrated Development Act, October 2000.
- Conference: ESD Applications - CSIRO September 1997, ESD and Urban Water Infrastructure.
- Conference: The Green Games - University of NSW, September 1997, The Homebush Bay Railway.
Project Management Conference Papers
- Australian Technical Millers, 1990, Cost Control of Major Projects.
- Project Management Forum National Conference, 1988, The Project Team Members.
- Macdonald Wagner Technical Quarterly, August 1988, Project cost control for the Kellogg Botany Expansion (1).
- Project Management Forum National Conference, 1987, Cost Control of Cost Reimbursable Contracts.
- Panel member at seminar on Australian Standard Conditions of Contract AS2124, 1986.
- Profitable Project Management, August 1985, Kellogg Botany Expansion Project: Cost Control on a Major Construction Project.