Peter Hofstetter - Director | Senior Building Certifier
Peter is a Senior Building Certifier at CERTIS. His involvement in the building industry began in 1985 and he has been a building Certifier since 1994. He became a Director of CERTIS in 2000. Peter specialises in identifying areas of cost savings and performance solutions while maintaining compliance with the requirements of the National Construction Code. He has considerable experience in providing advice on aspects of Building Regulation matters as they relate to all commercial buildings. Peter has a specialist interest in laboratory and educational buildings. Peter is the driving force behind the Certis Learning videos and he’s also the inventor of the Rise’n’go Stair Checker, a device to quickly and accurately check the rises and goings of stairs.
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Prabha Ponniah - Director
Prabha Ponniah is a Director of CERTIS. He has over 25 years’ experience as a Structural Engineer and a Building Surveyor. He is a recognized expert for
providing leading edge Building Code advice at a senior level and has been a referee with the Building Tribunal. He is well regarded in the building
industry for providing alternative performance-based approaches to compliance issues.
Prabha has been a member of the Building Advisory Committee which advises the minister for local government on changes to the National Construction Code
and the Building Act and Regulations. His experience in the certification of a wide range of iconic projects makes Prabha one of the most sought-after
NCC advisors.
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Richard Evans - Principal | Senior Building Surveyor
Richard is an Associate and Senior Building Certifier at CERTIS. His career as a Building Certifier began in 2013 and has had experience across the whole spectrum of Building classes. Prior to this, Richard was involved in civil construction general management and operations involving a variety of projects across New South Wales and South Australia.
Prior to 2009, Richard had a 17-year career working in banking and finance across Africa, Europe and Australia predominantly in the areas of trading, operations and management information systems.
Richard’s early career started in building and construction working for a small family owned development company.
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Aimee Watson - Principal | Senior Building Certifier
Aimee Watson is an Associate with CERTIS, Senior Building Surveyor and RICS accredited. Aimee has experience in a variety of project sizes across all classes
of buildings. She leads and manages projects in ACT and QLD and specialises in Class 9 buildings including transport, hospitals and aged-care buildings.
Most recently being involved in the 4 new Cross River Rail underground stations and the Brisbane Metro in Queensland.
Aimee enjoys the uniqueness of each project she tackles, relishing the opportunity to understand the needs of the client, the complexities of the project
and the best interpretation of the NCC to achieve the right result in the right timeframe.
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Edward Steward - Associate | IT + QMS Manager
Edward is an Associate and IT + QMS Manager at Certis. Edward has over 25 years IT experience across a number of different industries including from automotive service software, to finance and building certification.
Edward has a very good understanding of the NCC and what the building surveyors need from IT systems. He enjoys engineering risk out of the business and is responsible for the software solutions and systems at Certis,
including designing, delivering, and evolving leading edge systems capabilities for building surveyors.
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