We help clients with capital productivity in all business areas, project types, and stages: portfolio optimisation, project concept and design, lean construction, contract and contractor management, contract close-out, and commissioning support.
- Strengthening the corporate portfolio. We help clients reassess the logic for allocating capital expenditure (capex) throughout the business and redesign planning and budgeting processes to link project funding to corporate strategy and value-creation potential.
- Supporting individual project development. On mega projects worth $1 billion or more, we help clients minimise risks to the balance sheet and boost net present value by up to 25 percent by improving project concept and setup. On small- and medium-size projects, we help create business cases, optimise concepts and designs, and streamline construction—delivering typical savings of 10 to 30 percent of the addressable budget.
- Working across the value chain. In generation, we provide end-to-end support on investment projects across all technologies and including building new power stations and refurbishment projects. In transmission, we help reduce costs, improve reliability, and increase customer affordability for large project portfolios; and optimise design, improve lands and rights processes, and implement lean-construction techniques in major time-critical corridor projects. In IT, we support utilities in capturing value by ensuring that projects meet business needs and are easy to transfer from the building phase to the operational phase.
To help clients extract maximum value from their capital budgets, we invest in developing tools such as:
- Capital system effective practice review. An assessment of the 100 essentials of a great capital system, with benchmarks and survey results to allow objective comparisons of process strength and capital outcomes.
- Capex negotiation framework. A tool for optimising technical and commercial factors, identifying and quantifying negotiation levers, scripting negotiations, and planning back-office support.
- Capex control tower. A tool enabling transparent monitoring and on-time project delivery.
- Lean construction tool kit. Systematic approaches to eliminate waste in processes and accelerate construction.
- Contract management suite. A contract-terms database, a 48-hour-contract-assessment tool, and forums to support flawless contract execution and claims and counter-claims management.
