Patrick holds a Bachelors of Engineering in Mechanical & Manufacturing and a Bachelors of Science from the University of Melbourne. His previous experience includes project management, project engineering, and quality assurance across the Oil & Gas, Healthcare, Building Services, and Infrastructure sectors. Patrick is also a Certified Measurement and Verification Professional (CMVP).
Patrick Blain is the General Manager, Operations at Northmore Gordon. He holds the credentials BE (Mech), BSc, MIEAust, and CMVP (Certified Measurement and Verification Professional). His background combines mechanical engineering expertise with operational management responsibility across our service delivery, bringing experience from project management, engineering, and quality assurance roles in Oil & Gas, Healthcare, Building Services, and Infrastructure sectors.
Patrick Blain's core areas of expertise are environmental certificates, commercial buildings, and quality management. In environmental certificates, he applies knowledge of project registration, certificate creation, trading, and the evidence required under different schemes. For commercial buildings, he addresses the split-incentive challenges between owners, tenants and facilities managers, aligning control, performance measurement and investment decisions. His quality management background ensures our delivery standards and professional scope are maintained across engagements.
As a Certified Measurement and Verification Professional, Patrick Blain provides authoritative oversight of energy projects requiring verified outcomes. Under schemes like NSW's Energy Savings Scheme PIAM&V pathway, an approved independent M&V professional must deem baseline measurement procedures appropriate and provide written reasoning before implementation. His CMVP status enables him to establish credible project boundaries, baseline conditions, data collection protocols and savings calculations that support investment decisions and certificate eligibility, particularly for complex or high-value energy efficiency projects.
Patrick Blain is a Member of Engineers Australia (MIEAust), holding a Bachelor of Engineering in Mechanical & Manufacturing and a Bachelor of Science, both from the University of Melbourne. He is also a Certified Measurement and Verification Professional (CMVP). These credentials establish his professional standing in engineering practice, energy performance assessment, and verification methodology—critical for projects involving measurement and verification services, baseline establishment, and outcomes tracking across industrial facilities, commercial buildings and utility applications.
Patrick Blain brings expertise in navigating commercial building complexity, where building owners, tenants and facilities managers often control different energy-related decisions. He assists by establishing clear assessment boundaries—whether covering a tenancy, base-building services or the whole building—and aligning performance measurement with investment authority. His experience supports scoped improvement programmes that distinguish investigation, operational adjustment and capital replacement, helping coordinate energy audits, HVAC assessments, measurement and verification, and investment cases in split-control environments.
Patrick Blain oversees environmental certificate services at Northmore Gordon, including project assessment, registration support, certificate creation and trading guidance. He ensures projects meet applicable scheme requirements—whether Victorian Energy Upgrades, NSW Energy Savings Scheme, ACCU projects or renewable energy pathways. His role includes advising on activity eligibility, evidence collection protocols, measurement boundaries, and the commercial treatment of certificates within investment cases. He helps clients distinguish certificate quantity, ownership, verification cost and sale price as separate variables affecting project economics.
Patrick Blain's previous experience across Oil & Gas, Healthcare, Building Services and Infrastructure sectors provides him with diverse perspectives on energy performance challenges, operational constraints and implementation risks. This multi-sector background helps him recognise sector-specific issues—whether refrigeration demands in food processing, HVAC complexity in healthcare facilities, or peak-demand management in commercial buildings—and apply proven problem-solving approaches. His quality assurance experience ensures consistent application of our assessment frameworks and delivery standards across different client environments and operational contexts.
Drawing on his CMVP expertise, Patrick Blain emphasises early M&V planning to preserve baseline evidence and scheme eligibility. He works with clients to establish practical M&V briefs that specify purpose (internal performance, investment contracts, or certificate schemes), measurement boundaries, baseline conditions, data collection protocols, implementation records and calculation transparency. His approach recognises that scheme-specific M&V requirements—such as PIAM&V baseline procedures deemed appropriate before implementation—must be identified early to ensure projects can deliver verified outcomes and support credible certificate claims.
As General Manager, Operations, Patrick Blain ensures our six-stage delivery approach—Assess, Build the Case, Capture Value, Deliver, Procure and Perform—is executed with consistent quality and professional scope. His operational oversight spans energy audits and investigations in the Assess stage, feasibility and investment case development in Build the Case, funding and certificate pathway assessment in Capture Value, project management and measurement and verification in Deliver, procurement strategy in Procure, and ongoing performance tracking in Perform. His presence ensures technical rigor and commercial accountability throughout client engagements.
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