Speakers

Richard Smith is one of Australia's most commercially focused quantity surveyors, with 25 years advising developers, government agencies, and institutional clients on cost, risk, and procurement strategy across social housing, build-to-rent, retirement living, and major infrastructure.

At MBM, Richard's role is simple: tell clients the truth about money. What things actually cost. Where the risk sits. And whether the numbers support the decision in front of them.

On MMC, Richard is genuinely optimistic - but forensically so. He's worked through enough live projects to know where offsite construction delivers real commercial advantage, and where the market is still confusing enthusiasm with evidence. His value on this panel is separating the pretenders from the contributors: identifying the procurement models, project types, and supply chain conditions where MMC genuinely moves the needle.

For clients navigating a noisy, rapidly evolving market, Richard offers something increasingly rare - honest, experience-grounded commercial intelligence, without an agenda to sell