Mimram has been the part-time Environmental Management Representative for the ConnectEast Group, owner-operator of the recently-opened EastLink toll road, located east and south of Melbourne. The work consists of auditing the environmental performance of the principal contractors during construction and operation of this $3.2 billion infrastructure project, and has now extended into consolidating environmental and general sustainability policies in the ConnectEast Group.

Mimram’s principal consultant, Alan Sann, has been involved in many plans for new projects in Australia and South-East Asia, and remains a registered individual consultant for the World Bank in the field of natural resource management and environmental planning.

Mimram is now able to provide guidance and management of strategic planning studies for those clients who are involved in the planning of new land use opportunities and transport facilities within the urban space.

Mimram can draw on its associates to deploy competent multi-disciplinary study teams for government planning, community development, transport and natural resource management agencies at all central, regional and local levels.

1980-86 SANTOS LTD ADELAIDE: Environment Manager. Cooper Basin Liquids Development Scheme, Moomba and Port Bonython; Jackson-Moonie gas pipeline.

1986-93 GOVERNMENT OF TASMANIA: Chief Assessment Officer and Director of Environmental Management. Mt Lyell copper mine, Hokushin MDF Plant, North-Noranda Wesley Vale and Taiwan Pulp & Paper Pulp Mill proposals.

1993-97 GHD TASMANIA: Principal Environmental Consultant. Xe Kaman 1 hydropower scheme, Lao PDR

1997-1999 WORLD BANK (EAST ASIA DIRECTORATE) AND ASIAN DEVELOPMENT BANK (HANOI): Individual Consultant, Ministry of Natural Resources & Environment (Thailand); Team Leader, SE San 3 Hydropower Technical Assistance Project (Vietnam).

2000 AUSAID: Team member, Bapedalda (EPA) Pollution Control Program Evaluation (East Java).

2001-2003 DUKE ENERGY INTERNATIONAL (AUSTRALIA): Environment & Approvals Manager, Tasmania Gas Pipeline Project.

2004-Present DIRECTOR MIMRAM PLANNING & DEVELOPMENT PTY LTD. EMR for EastLink tollroad; Equator Principles compliance analyst (with SFL Europe) for ANZ; due diligence analyst (environmental technologies and businesses) for Otway Partners (Melbourne).

Some clients require independent audits of compliance with environmental management plans, project deeds, international safeguards principles and related guidance for contemporary environmental and social performance.

Mimram has gained much experience in doing this within the large infrastructure sector in Australia (oil and gas, transport) and South-East Asia (hydropower and roads). This work is done through site visits and interviews with regulators, operations managers and members of the local community affected by operations on the ground. Reports are prepared for the client against approved management plans and licences for the operations under audit.

On behalf of project financiers, Mimram analyses the environmental and social compliance of proposed major projects with the IFC’s Equator Principles. Mimram was a principal analyst in ANZ Bank. That experience and expertise is now available to also assist project sponsors become investment-ready for the “Equator Banks”.

Such operations range from the construction of very-large infrastructure projects as hydroelectricity power schemes and major roads to small-scale environmental technology operations handling hazardous wastes and resource recovery.

These examinations involve detailed planning and research, followed by site visits and management interviews, resulting in a confidential report to the client.

Our clients range from international banks to private investment entities who are concerned to identify certain types of risks and business opportunities in transacting non-recourse loans and direct equity investments.

• due diligence of environmental business operations and transactions;
• audit of environmental and social performance of major infrastructure projects; and
• planning for sustainability for large-scale, controversial, infrastructure projects

Mimram generally works for project financiers, investors and owner-operators of commercial ventures and projects in which there are embedded complex technical, environmental, social and regulatory issues. The four most recent engagements illustrate the type of work Mimram undertakes.

• In late 2004 Mimram was appointed by the ConnectEast Group, Melbourne, as its consulting Environmental Management Representative reporting to the Chief Executive until mid-2010. This part-time position fulfils requirements under the State Deed for the recently-completed $3.2 billion EastLink, a PPP-funded tollway linking Mitcham to Frankston east of Melbourne.
• In 2006 Mimram was engaged by the Managing Director of Babcock & Brown Capital to examine the risks and opportunities associated with a number of investments.
• Mimram is currently assisting a group of private Melbourne-based investors with research into various environmental technologies and businesses.