Early Contractor Involvement (ECI) contracts are becoming a popular model to provide a collaborative approach to complex or high-risk projects. ECI provides a team time to gain an early understanding of the contract and design requirements to enable value engineering.

Our team has been involved in many ECI contracts providing extensive experience in creating true value at this critical stage, ensuring:

• True collaboration

• Optimisation of design and planning

• In-depth understanding of constructability issues

• Robust risk management

• Assessment of procurement options

Our Pre-tender Only services provide a fully independent contractors assessment, ensuring the true benefits of the ECI process are realised, providing:

• Independent advice on tender schedules and contract conditions

• Financial feasibility assessments

• Independent Project Director services

Within the contracting market we see a constant desire from clients for innovative construction techniques to allow accelerated delivery without compromising on quality, safety or value. We have a proven track record in stakeholder focused delivery, accelerated delivery and bringing established projects back on track.

We can offer expert advice on how accelerated delivery can be implemented by using advanced planning techniques, design interrogation, innovation and resource allocation. Through our experience, we can also offer advice on the best procurement methods to facilitate these models, whilst identifying the risks and benefits they may provide.

Without involvement of specialised contractor input, design teams are often left making assumptions that if not effectively communicated during procurement, leave Principals open to a high level of risk - increasing the likelihood of cost overruns. By utilising our real life experiences, our team can apply learnings to greatly assist any project scheming phase, through:

• Independent reviews of design, estimates and programmes

• Service verification and design conflict resolution

• Pre-contract programming

• Delivering, coordinating and assisting with public consultation

Common procurement practices often increase the risk to Principals through lack of detail - omissions and assumptions can often present the greatest risk to any project budget. With our team’s delivery of some of Canterbury’s most technical civil projects, we bring vast experience to assist with project planning, ensuring any key risk to delivery is understood and communicated clearly to potential contractors. With these experiences our team can provide:

• Traffic impact assessments

• Traffic management planning

• Stakeholder management plans

• Assessment of environmental management plan impacts versus constructability

• Construction programming and constraint identification

• Specialised/nominated resource procurement

• Project staging and sequencing

• ITP/quality expectations

With our team’s history working within the Canterbury construction market, we have a number of well-formed relationships with a wide consortium of local contractors. These unique relationships combined with our project management experience presents an opportunity to deliver specialised construction resource, while utilising our collaborative approach. Services available to be undertaken and managed by our team include:

• Earthworks

• Three waters

• Pavement construction

• Traffic signal upgrades

• Traffic management

• Landscaping

• Retaining wall construction

Having held a number of senior tender, delivery and commercial positions, our team specialises in setting tender strategies, assessing contract risk and opportunities and managing project financials from a contractor perspective. By demonstrating these methods, we can provide a clear view of the project risks and opportunities within both their procurement and design document. With a specific focus on project cost, our team can provide:

• Schedule of Quantity development and review

• Project estimates

• Cashflow forecasts

• Feasibility estimates

• Critical material and service procurement

• Risk valuation

• Tender documentation review

Throughout our careers our team have experienced a number of differing accounting systems. This experience has allowed us to refine our day to day financial systems, risk assessment and financial tracking, whether constructing a domestic driveway or multi-million-dollar project, our financial tracking and forecasting systems allows precise tracking and cost forecasting to provide confidence of the predicted outcome of a project at any point.

Identifying risk and opportunities is often a vital step missed when establishing a project. Our team can provide the right skills and services to ensure project risks and opportunities are identified, so risk can be mitigated, and strategies implemented to realise opportunities.

Experience in some of Canterbury’s major horizontal infrastructure projects of pursuing commercial opportunities, while protecting and enhancing relationships has allowed our team to develop a unique skillset that is dedicated to achieving positive outcomes.

Our team can provide a business or project specific financial system that allows:

• Accounts administration support providing accurate accounting and routine reporting of life to date cost

• Creation of project specific cost to complete report, which can provide early warnings and highlights key risks to your business

• Identification, evaluation, and mitigation of risk assessments

• Identification, evaluation, and strategy to realise opportunities to increase profit

• Full quantity surveying services from estimating to project delivery

Our team has extensive experience working with several private and public sector organisations to set Greenhouse Gas Baselines, evaluating business change to achieve targets and goals, and creating accurate and quantifiable metrics for tracking performance and progress over time. Fully conversant with ISO 14064: 2018 Greenhouse Gases, and the Greenhouse Gas Protocol, we are able to offer the following:

• Target setting for your organisation or project

• Assessment criteria for carbon reduction at a project level

• Metrics and reporting in accordance with ISO 14064: 2018

• Evaluation of the financial impact of carbon related strategies and measures

• Evaluation of tender documents to ensure tangible submissions are made by contractors

This is a rapidly changing space, and we stay close to changes within this industry and the effects on the construction sector. We are committed to driving real change within the sector and lower the impact of construction on the environment.

Our experienced project delivery team have led complex and communication intensive projects within the Canterbury market. Our stakeholder communication approach can provide a Contractors input during the consultation phase. We can assist in translating key consultation points within a procurement document to ensure Contractors are aware of the key requirements for effective management. With our teams expert advice, we can assist your contracts both before and during construction through:

• Independent review of tender documentation to ensure requirements are fully explained

• Assisting with consultation by providing clients a realistic programme and method during consultation phases

• Review of contractors communications throughout construction

Our Project Director service can provide a key focus to the construction management whilst ensuring that positive stakeholder outcomes are achieved.