Psi Delta — Water, Development, Environment

Geoffrey Croke
B Comm (Melb); BEd (Monash)
Principal

Geoffrey Croke is the Principal of Psi Delta. He has developed Psi Delta from a background in senior management, mostly with resource company BHP. He managed or has provided key inputs to all of Psi Delta’s landmark projects in development of water recycling, water demand assessment, climate change adaptation and policy development including work for the Chinese Ministry of Environment.
With a background in farming and mining and over 30 years work on large engineering based projects he brings understanding, insights and practicality to the Psi Delta team. He has a number of international publications on water recycling and consultation and has been recognised by the Australian water industry for his contribution.

Hoang Anh Cat
BEng (Hons)
Project Manager

Hoang Anh Cat is a project manager at Psi Delta, working on water and climate change projects with a special interest in natural resource management.
Hoang Anh works on projects that apply core Psi Delta methodology such as demand assessment, consultation and project feasibility. She is now taking a key role in development of Psi Delta’s climate change practice, particularly the assessment of production, economic and social impacts.
She has strong skills in project and multi-disciplinary team management and contributes this ability across Psi Delta’s activities.

Lex Batters
BA ME (WRM)
Project Manager

Lex manages Psi Delta’s water markets, managing more than 150GL (150,000,000 m³) of temporary water in Queensland and advises government and private clients on temporary and permanent water sales and acquisitions. He is developing Psi Delta’s practice in investment recruitment for water and evaluation of water investments. Lex manages Psi Delta’s activity in secure water resource acquisition for corporate and resource industry clients.
Lex also contributes his experience in community consultation for regional and international development projects.

Matthew Dent
BEng (Hons)
Project Manager

Matthew works on the full range of Psi Delta projects but with a speciality in integrated engineering, production, financial and economic modelling. He has advanced Psi Delta’s capability in regional assessment. While his earlier experience is mostly in water related projects he is extending Psi Delta’s capability into other areas such as modelling climate change and environmental policy impacts.
He manages complex multi-dimensional projects in water and environment to produce well-grounded reports in areas such as regional water demand assessment.
His work in engineering project evaluation such as irrigation system modernisation and water sourcing provides insights into risk and analysis of key variables.
Mathew’s projects often include detailed interface with engineering and other technical consultant contributors to Psi Delta projects.
- Level 4, 50 Queen Street Melbourne
  Victoria 3000 Australia
  Telephone +61 3 9093 0000
  Facsimile +61 3 9093 0011
  mail@psidelta.com

From small-scale local projects to projects and programs of national importance, Psi Delta knows development. We understand the need to clarify objectives and project parameters, and how to develop and implement plans. We produce development policy at a national level and have been central to a number of landmark water and environment projects. Commercial acumen is a critical contributor to our success.
Project Focus – Department of Natural Resources and Water (NRW): Wide Bay Burnett Regional Water Demand

We work closely with clients’ customers and with communities. Psi Delta provides the interface between people and engineering by engaging directly with stakeholders and communities, and collecting accurate data. This develops projects tailored to suit users, with optimised costs and effectiveness.

Psi Delta provides the crucial commercial know-how in developing water projects. More broadly, for governments we also contribute our insights to the discipline of policy development. We form a deep understanding of the setting to achieve practical and genuine solutions.

We manage development of projects using systematic management practices derived from mining, construction and large consulting projects. Respecting client preferences for project control, we can set our task to anything from assisting clients in program monitoring through to overall project management.

We understand the technical and management processes in our industries. With capability in reporting and in training, we provide local and international knowledge transfer and capacity building.