Barry Lovat

Barry is a Principal Consultant - Transport and has over 45 years in rolling stock design, construction and as a Professional Engineer.

Barry’s experience includes being the Principal Consultant Fleet in TfNSW responsible for the provision of project and technical asset management support for key fleet and construction projects including fleet upgrade programs for the new timetables, the New Intercity Fleet Project, the Regional Rail Upgrade, asset management reviews of the train operators and a number of key heritage projects as part of the new heritage structure.

With the experience of setting and monitoring of engineering and maintenance standards and managing of major projects and programs and the implementation of these works across a large complex organisation, Barry has gained a thorough knowledge of train operations, infrastructure standards and the impacts on timetable development.

During his 45 years’ experience, Barry has managed programs covering every stage of the rail asset life cycle, has was been involved in heritage matters, has managed large numbers of staff and contractors and has overseen maintenance facility contracts, refurbishment projects and facility upgrades