Aurecon

About Gehad

Gehad Serhan is Aurecon's Asset Management Leader with over 42 years of experience in heavy industry, manufacturing, mining, defence, construction and consultant support services.

Proudest moment in your career?

Successful development and leadership of "empowered" engineering groups that received national awards for both asset management and safety management development and delivery in the first calendar year.

An essential key to innovative thinking? And why?

As the saying goes, “If you do what you have always done, you will get what you have always got!”

Continually challenging the status quo means that I understand and can manage the risks, and, as a result, I dare to be different!

Keys to a successful project delivery?

Planning and adherence to compliance.

The most important lesson you learnt early in your career?

To always be an astute listener and an approachable team manager.

Where do you see Asset Management over the next five years? 

Across many industries, there is increasing pressure to achieve better performance and cost efficiencies.  Effective asset management has a key role to play in supporting this and in addressing the many ongoing economic and environmental challenges facing industry. Combining advanced technical modelling of asset performance in a range of environments with effective operational management planning can add significant business and financial advantage for asset owners and operators.