Director profile
Jozef Panak
Dip Arch · Director, JBP Consultancy
Jozef Panak is an accomplished architectural and design leader with more than 35 years of international experience across Australia, Southeast Asia, the Middle East and Europe. Following a distinguished 20-year career with GHD, he established JBP Consultancy to provide clients with senior-level architectural, interior design and strategic project advisory services.
His expertise spans design leadership, development strategy, project management, procurement, consultant coordination, cost planning and construction delivery. Jozef brings a commercially focused and practical approach to complex projects, balancing design quality, programme, budget, risk and deliverability to achieve successful project outcomes.
Qualifications & affiliations
- Diploma of Architecture, Industrial Technical College, Slovak Republic
- MDIA, IntDes, The Design Institute of Australia; DIA Design Award judging panel
- IFI, International Federation of Interior Designers and Architects
- IES London (certified) · GBCA member · AIPM member
- GHD Finalist Award for Technical Excellence, Interior Design, 2014
Services
Architecture
Comprehensive architectural design from concept to completion, across workplace, health, education, residential, retail and civic projects in Australia and overseas.
Interior Design
Workplace design strategy and interior architecture that align space with how an organisation works, for wellbeing, efficiency and functional aesthetics.
Project & Development Management
Projects led from inception to completion, with budgets, programme, procurement and stakeholders managed with the commercial acumen to keep them viable.
Project Advisory
Senior, independent advice for owners, developers, builders and design teams at any stage, drawn from 35+ years and landmark projects across four regions.
Career foundation
Four decades in practice
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1986
Ian Brackenridge Architects / Robin Kornweibel / Ron Jee & Assoc.
Architectural Design Draftsperson, Interior Designer
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1989
Smithmadden Design Pty Ltd
Senior Interior Designer, Project Manager
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1991
Interfurn Design Pty Ltd
Principal Interior Designer, Principal Project Manager
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1996
LF Design Pty Ltd
Company Owner / Director
Czech Republic, Europe
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1998
Jacobs / CCD / Cox
Associate Principal, Principal Project Manager
Australia, UAE, Singapore, Philippines
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2004
GHD Woodhead Pty Ltd
Director of Interior Architecture, Shareholder
2004 to 2025: Director of Interior Architecture, Global & Local BD Manager, Principal Project Manager, Senior Principal Interior Designer, Shareholder
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2025
JBP Consultancy Pty Ltd
Managing Director
Our team
Senior-led, hands-on, collaborative.
JBP Consultancy works the way our Director has always worked. Every engagement brings the director, project team and specialist consultants together around the drawing board, materials and site documentation to resolve design, cost and delivery issues in real time.
Your vision, our experience.
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