Matthew was given the opportunity to join ADP to set up its Vertical Transportation team in 2019 and was excited for the challenges he knew it would provide him. With a keen interest in graphic design at school, Matthew saw engineering as way to combine his love of hands-on designing into a practical career.

An important issue he aims to resolve daily, regardless of project size, is communicating the complexities of vertical transportation engineering into a way that is easy for clients and stakeholders to understand, while not undervaluing its importance to a project. Matthew thrives on finding solutions to the minute details of vertical transportation design such as reducing wait times that might only be seconds to us, would be considered a lifetime by Matthew.

Matthew has been involved in more than 600 projects in his career, across a diverse range of sectors. Before joining ADP, he was engaged on West Side Place, a massive four-tower multi-use precinct in the heart of Melbourne’s CBD, with the four towers each ranging from 65-81 levels.

He is currently working on The Mansions precinct project which forms part of the city-defining Queens Wharf development in Brisbane as well as the high-end luxury Saint Moritz residential development in St Kilda. It has a completely unique vertical transportation concept, with lifts served directly into apartments, and a complex queueing system so residents don’t share lift journeys. While a complex and difficult project at times, it was a welcome challenge and has offered exceptional learning outcomes.