Dr Brett C. Phillips is a Senior Principal with more than 36 years of experience in managing and undertaking a wide range of hydro-environmental assessments, catchment studies, flood and floodplain management studies and WSUD investigations for Government and Industry clients. He also had senior roles on 33 projects that received 43 Divisional and/or National engineering excellence awards from Engineers Australia, Stormwater Australia, Stormwater NSW and Consult Australia since 1987. He is an author or co-author of more than 200 papers published in international and Australian conference proceedings on sustainable development, integrated catchment management, flooding and floodplain management and hydrology.