Fiona Gaye Davies-McConchie Named Professional of the Year in Environmental Remediation

    MANDURAH, AUSTRALIA, January 26, 2015 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Fiona Gaye Davies-McConchie, Director of Environmental Remediation Technologies for Mt. Aspiring Geochemical Ltd. in association with Virotec Global Solutions Ltd., has been named a Worldwide Branding Professional of the Year in Environmental Remediation. While inclusion in Worldwide Branding is an honor, only a small selection of members in each discipline are chosen for this distinction. These special honorees are distinguished based on their professional accomplishments, academic achievements, leadership abilities, years of service, and the credentials they have provided in association with their Worldwide Branding membership.

Davies-McConchie has 15 years of professional experience, with seven years of experience as a director of environmental remediation technologies for Mt. Aspiring Geochemical Ltd. in association with Virotec Global Solutions Ltd. On a daily basis, she is responsible for developing innovative technologies to address otherwise intractable and serious environmental problems. Among these problems are the concentrations of arsenic and other contaminants found in drinking water. To solve this problem, Ms. Davies-McConchie is working to advance a sustainable and affordable filtration system for individuals and villages for very large-scale water treatment, where no hazardous residues after treatment present a new problem. Part of her duties in this regard include ensuring that the device is easily operated, very cost affordable, leaves no hazardous residues that need special disposal requirements, and is describable as totally effective, clean, green and environmentally safe.

Ms. Davies-McConchie also focuses on intensive dairy industry waste and wastewaters, and the development of further technologies to reuse urban and industrial waste products, most particularly in environmental remediation. She has participated in literally hundreds of national and international conferences and workshops, and has held workshops and presented countless papers and consultancy reports.

Mt. Aspiring Geochemical Ltd. in association with Virotec Global Solutions Ltd. is an environmental and waste management solutions provider that provides industrial wastewater and solids treatment, as well as soil treatments and fertilizers, municipal wastewater and odor abatement, mine remediation and total waste removal.

Virotec is a world leader in meeting the demand for effective, sustainable solutions to deal with serious environmental and waste problems. The proven, patented, state-of-the-art technologies developed by Virotec enable companies and public utilities to meet government regulatory waste treatment standards, reduce future liabilities and help safeguard the environment.

Virotec's capability in developing processes to remediate harmful wastes, solve soil and water contamination, and reduce environmental degradation successfully has lead to the expansion of the firm's portfolio of services to include such "Value Added Services" as contaminated land auditing and environmental and site assessment.

Virotec's technologies benefit many different industries, including mining and metals processing, the oil and gas sector, metals finishing and other manufacturing industries, municipal sewage treatment, property development and marine dredging, and timber preservation. Virotec's products and services have gained regulatory approval in the U.S., Korea, the U.K., Italy, Portugal, Laos, the Philippines, New Zealand and Australia.

Virotec is a privately owned company based in Queensland, Australia. Virotec's Head Office is located on the Gold Coast and its laboratory is based in Evans Head, New South Wales. Through the company's strategic alliance partners, clients can now access a range of technical services in North America, Europe, South Korea, the Philippines, Australia and New Zealand.

Looking back, Ms. Davies-McConchie attributes her success to her passion for her work. Key players in her education included Professors Alison Specht (botany) and Nick Holmes (marine biology), along with later, Professor Olaf Schuiling of The Netherlands and Dr. Jim Castro from Montana, USA. She became involved in her profession through a natural progression of opportunities. She is the widow of Professor David Murray McConchie, and they worked hand-in-hand on environmental problems. A life team of husband and wife, at Southern Cross University they began their journey by branching out into the environmental assessment and then the remediation fields. Remediation seemed to be a rarer commodity internationally, with many able to properly assess a given environment and predict impact but few indeed able to offer workable, affordable, proven, environmentally sound remediation options; therefore, they both concentrated their united efforts in science.

They had the valuable asset of the School of Environmental Science being a highly innovative and multidisciplinary faculty, largely led, at the time, by Professors Gartside and Saenger.

They noticed they just didn't have the laboratory facilities they wanted; so rather than sit and grizzle about it, they made it happen. They worked alone with an infant baby starting from scratch, eventually ringing up government departments and so on to convince them that their lab was better and to do business with them.

For more information about Mt. Aspiring Geochemical Ltd. in association with Virotec Global Solutions Ltd., visit http://virotec.com.

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