About

With offices in Sydney and Wollongong, APALT is well equipped to handle your needs. We stress the importance of our location not impeding our ability to handle work across NSW, the ACT and beyond.

With technological advances, our strategic partnerships and our willingness to travel, we are more than capable of meeting the challenges of other markets.

Your relationship with APALT is direct to a hands-on Director who is backed up with an administration support team.

Our client service procedures encourage regular WIP meetings. Between meetings, regular follow up via email and phone will keep you abreast of developments and ensure you are kept fully briefed on the work we are undertaking for you. Detailed WIP reports and action plans are part of our client service process.

Utilising APALT as your consultancy will ensure preconceptions can be challenged, assumptions will not be accepted without justification, ‘perceived wisdom’ will be contested.

Ross is an extremely skilled and experienced exponent of delivering interpretations and advice of text results, with over 35 years’ experience in Construction Materials Testing (CMT). This includes sampling and testing, reporting and then value adding to the process by providing clear interpretation, precise advice, then identifying root cause and mode of failure.

Ross has been a NATA Signatory since 1986. Ross became a NATA Assessor in 1994, and is still actively involved with NATA in his capacity as An Assessor, Mentor and consultant.

Being competent in interpretation and advice, is not simply related to performing the tests. Knowledge of the background or origin of the test, provides an insight into why the testing is necessary and why such properties need to be assessed. Testing is not just about obtaining results for conformance, it is paramount to the overall performance of the material within the structure.

Be it concrete in a bridge beam, sub-base in a pavement, aggregate within asphalt or the plasticity of a subgrade material; these properties and their respective results need to be clearly comprehended, categorised, analysed and assessed. This is where APALT has advantages over its competitors.

In 1979, Ross commenced a brief stint in the field of metallurgy, followed by a commitment to the NSW Government’s DMR/RTA/RMS until 2013. During his over three decades in State Government, where he worked in various roles in the engineering field, completing his employment as the NSW Southern Region Laboratory Manager.

In addition to his primary role, Ross was a member and Chair of various committees overseeing Specifications, Test Methods and technical direction and development within NSW Government Agencies.

In 2013, Ross was enticed to private industry, where for two years he demonstrated and shared his skills and knowledge with Network Geotechnics P/L (NG) as the company’s Technical Manager.