NSW is set to get a new building boss.

In its latest announcement, the NSW Government says that James Sherrard has been appointed as the new NSW Building Commissioner.

Sherrard has more than 30 years’ experience spanning global construction projects with specialist expertise in strategy, commercial and infrastructure areas.

His previous role was Head of Commercial, Performance and Strategy at Transport NSW, where he led a team responsible for contract frameworks, the acquisition of property for major infrastructure projects, procurement including several multi-billion dollar projects and an analytics team.

He has been a project manager on civic, residential and sporting infrastructure projects across metropolitan and regional NSW and globally including the Sydney and London Olympics and has formal qualifications in building, business and law. He has worked at senior levels in professional services consulting, focused on infrastructure and urban renewal.

His experience in international construction projects between 2004 and 2015 spanned time working in the UK, Algeria, Afghanistan and Hong Kong.

(James Sherrard)

Sherrard will replace the former Building Commissioner in David Chandler who retired in August after five years at the helm.

During his time as Commissioner, Chandler led an ambitious program of reform which aimed to restore integrity into the NSW building system after widespread poor construction practices were leading to serious defects on new homes and apartment buildings.

Sherrard was appointed by Department of Customer Service Secretary Graeme Head.

 

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