Duncan Read was General Manager of ATP in the three years leading up to the sale of the 14 hectare business and events precinct to Mirvac in 2016.

Impacts:
- record operating performance
- 3 year year-on-year profit growth
- tenant occupancy at 100%
- key staff retention
- sale proceeds 30% above valuation
- embedded heritage outcomes.

Green Lane Advisory was engaged for property and commercial direction and co-ordinate a strategic business case for secondary campus expansion.

Impacts:
- innovative ‘lease to grow’ vision
- project narrative defined
- masterplan options tested
- 80% stakeholder support
- several properties identified
- draft strategic business case.

As Program Director between 2018 and 2021 Duncan Read helped precinct members UNSW, Randwick Council, Australian Jockey Club and NSW Health establish and deliver a platform for engagement and jointly funded projects.

Impacts:
- 3 year strategic precinct plan
- pooled transport and energy data
- connected network of experts
- attracted NSW Gov grant funding
- NSW Planning Award 2021

Engaged by Sydney Opera House Trust to design and facilitate the Concert Hall ‘operational readiness’ workshop in 2021, and re-engaged for ‘construction handover’ workshop in 2023.

Impacts:
- operational readiness workshop 2021
- interview and workshop materials
- recommendations implemented
- handover lessons workshop 2023
- 95% workshop engagement
- positive participant feedback.

Green Lane Advisory engaged by Health Infrastructure to provide input and governance advice on the Draft 2022 Health Strategy for Precincts and Places.

Impacts:
- defined strategic objectives
- aligned stakeholder interests
- agency support from GSC and DPE
- supporting tools and guidelines
- implementation action plan
- agreed direction and messaging.

Non-executive director of registered charity providing community space and creative programs in inner-city Redfern.

Impacts:
- five-year business strategy
- establish new venue ‘107 Zetland’
- Covid lock-down response strategy
- staff mentorship program
- ‘Art Somewhere’ deployed
- new ‘107 Agency’ service line.

Health Infrastructure engaged Duncan Read to establish and manage capital advisory and commercial teams supporting it’s $ multi-billion project pipeline.

Impacts:
- FY22 Work plan precincts team
- FY23 Work Plan sustainability team
- FY24/25 Work Plan property team
- All staff ‘goal setting’ presentation
- Staff mentor and manager
- Team award for collaboration

+ SPD Property, Health Infrastructure

+ Non-Exec Director, 107 Projects

+ Director, Connell Griffin Advisory

+ Program Director, Urban Growth NSW

+ Advisor, Sydney Startup Hub

+ General Manager, ATPSL

+ Manager of Operations, Landcom

+ Senior Development Manager, Urbex

+ Associate Director, Ethos Urban

+ Facilities planning officer, UNSW

+ Founder of fitterforhavingit.au