About Us
Why Breezewater?
- We have a passion to be at the forefront of cooling tower technology. To complete projects faster, better and with superior performance.
- Trusted advisor to all industries across Australia and New Zealand on all things Cooling Towers
- Design and all technical skills are in house to deliver your cooling tower projects
- 100% thermal performance delivered on every project
- We believe in being an operational partner to maintain and service cooling towers to ensure reliability to our clients.
Team & Careers
At Breezewater we are always on the lookout for strong and dedicated team members across a range of positions. If you think you've got what it takes to be part of our enthusiastic team please contact us.
OH&S / Certification
Our stringent OH&S procedures help ensure the safety of both people and property on each and every project we work on. Our team members participate in ongoing development and training making them experts in their field.
Green Friendly
Breezewater believes that achieving environmental sustainability is essential to improving the future of all Australians. We strive to reduce carbon emissions, cut waste, and manage resources efficiently.
Our Expert Team
Our team consists of highly qualified engineers, project managers and fabricators who unite to provide end-to-end in house expertise.
Scott Smith
Managing Director
Scott Smith joined the board of Breezewater in early 2019 and took the role of Operations Manager. He brings 18 years of Project Management and Commercial Management experience in both Construction and Maintenance Projects within the Resource Sectors.
Scott brings his wealth of Project, Contractual & Business Management skills to Breezewater where he oversees the Project Delivery teams and manages the Business through ongoing improvement of Performance, Commercial viability and Risk Assessment while promoting a strong Safety Culture to ensure it is at the front of all Stakeholders minds.
Graeme Spencer
Technical & Sales Director
Graeme Spencer is a fully qualified structural engineer with decades of experience. A member of the Board of Professional Engineers of Queensland, as well as a Chartered Professional Engineer, Graeme has led design, build, remedial and maintenance projects for cooling towers in Australia and the UK for major clients. Graeme is a member of the Board of Directors.
Graeme brings his experience in design, development, field erection, facilities management and maintenance from two world-leaders in cooling tech companies — Marley/SPX and Balcke-Duerr — to his role at Breezewater.
Graeme has also worked in a senior structural engineering and project management capacity for international consultancies such as Opus International Consultants Limited (New Zealand) and TRADA (Timber Research and Development Association – UK).
Graeme holds a Bachelor of Engineering (Civil and Structural).
Doug Buchbach
Consulting Engineer
Doug Buchbach has over 42 years’ experience with cooling towers and cooling systems in the Australian power industry. Since early 1990’s Doug has provided consulting services to power plants and industrial cooling in Australia and New Zealand covering inspection, condition reports, specification writing for new plant and refurbishment of existing cooling towers.
Doug joined the power industry as a graduate engineer in 1971 on the Gladstone power station design team for the sea water once through cooling system, and then moved to maintenance of the cooling towers and cooling system at Swanbank Power Station until 1978.
Doug re-joined the QEGB Brisbane design team for Tarong and Callide projects as cooling tower and cooling systems engineer. The specification for the supply of twin unit Natural Draught cooling towers was produced with assistance of specialist Natural Draft tower consultants from South Africa. Doug gained extensive experience with performance and operation of natural draught cooling towers before designing parameters for the Stanwell cooling towers.
Doug was involved with the Stanwell Natural Draft Cooling towers since project inception, leading the Value Engineering studies of the cooling and water systems, and then providing plant layout, specification, tender evaluation and design review.
Doug more recently has focused on cooling tower refurbishment and performance improvement, with some work as a consultant. Major projects in Qld have been the pack refurbishments of the Tarong and Callide Natural Draft towers. After the power industry restructure in 1999, AUSTA became Sigma Energy Solutions with Doug Principal Consultant responsible for leading Sigma’s cooling and heat exchanger performance improvement services for Australia and NZ.
Work outside Qld has included NSW, Victoria, WA and NZ. A major project, after detailed investigations and recommendations, has been the complete internal refurbishment and repacking of the splash pack Yallourn No. 3 cooling tower with trickle pack that provided a significant performance improvement.
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