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General
| Name | John Gransbury, PEng (Civil), CID, NER |
| Member Category | Professional |
| Company Name | Pinion Advisory (HydroPlan) |
| Company Type | Professional Design Office |
| Title | President, Australian Chapter |
| Phone | |
| Address | Beaumont |
| Service Area | Australia, Other |
Specialties and Projects
| Agricultural | Gawler Water Reuse Scheme*, Bunyip Water, Adelaide, Australia |
| Athletic Fields/Complexes | Sha Tin Race Course, Hong Kong |
| Commercial/Industrial/Campus | University of Western Sydney, NSW, Australia |
| Community Development/Master Planning | Gunbar stock and domestic pipeline, 410km, north of Hay, New South Wales |
| Golf Courses | Presidential Golf Club – Yanqi Lake, Beijing, China |
| Housing Development/Residential | The Gables, wastewater reuse for reserves and sports facilities, Box Hill, Sydney, Australia |
| Certified Irrigation Auditor | City of Playford – 50 reserves, Playford, South Australia |
Biography
| Education | Bachelor Civil Engineering, University of Adelaide |
| Certifications/Licenses | Certified Irrigation Designer, Certified Irrigation Agronomist |
| Biography | Having been raised on a farm and educated at a great institution, I became hooked on irrigation in the Middle East where I spent 3 enjoyable years exporting technology back to where it all started from thousands of years before. The thrill of ‘making it work’ has stayed with me for 40 years. There can’t be a better job – getting paid to play with water and plants, invent better ways, and help people achieve their goals. Experience allows me to take calculated risks on new challenges with new tools. I enjoy the practical application of useful tools like genetic algorithms, managed aquifer recharge, and web-based water network monitoring. But most of all I enjoy the people. I’m lucky to work with great clients, great staff and great colleagues – and then relax with great family and great friends. After 35 years, HydroPlan’s 20 staff in Perth, Adelaide, Sydney and Brisbane merged with Pinion Advisory which was formed in 2020 when 3 independent consultancy businesses merged. It was a perfect fit for ‘urban aggies’ to be part of a world-leading providers of agribusiness, water and environment services, and it allowed me to step back from consulting in 2024. |
Company
| Company Information | Until it merged with Pinion Advisory in 2022, HydroPlan was one of the largest irrigation consultancy firms in the world, maintaining a consistent focus around irrigation design services since 1986. From 2022 it got bigger and better. Irrigation technology has changed enormously, and Pinion Advisory (HydroPlan) has changed with it, leading our clients to new tools and methods, broader services, and always striving to give them better value from their money, water, power and labor. We operate where our clients want us to. Whilst this is mostly in Australia, we operate throughout Asian and MENA countries, and we have had a presence in China for 13 years. In Africa for example we’ve designed systems covering hundreds of thousands of hectares. From about 12 offices all over Australia, our staff operate throughout urban and regional Australia, drawing on their diverse backgrounds from around the world. Our clients come to us for many different reasons – but mostly because water is important to their business. We help them capture, treat, store, recover, pump, distribute and monitor their water. Most of the distribution systems are pressure systems (eg pop-ups, drip and pivots) but we also design gravity systems (eg channels, border check), and of course the pumps, pipes and controls needed to tie them together. We’ve designed over 12,000 systems, and whilst most of these are small, they must work just as reliably using the same technology as the largest systems. |