Infrastructure programmes are won and lost on the client side

For clients building in infrastructure

Demand in this sector clusters around the approval gates, not the construction phases. A scheme that clears Gate 2 needs a commercial and controls team in place before the tenders come back, and that team has to survive the move from approval into procurement and from procurement onto site. Those transitions are where Irish programmes lose years, so they are where we focus, in the client-side and sponsor teams as much as on site.

• Project controls, planning, cost management and reporting
• Estimating, cost control and cost engineering
• Commercial management: commercial leads, quantity surveyors and contracts management
• Programme and project management support for multi-scheme portfolios
• Procurement and supply-chain management on the client side
• Risk management, change control and contingency drawdown
• Business case, approval gate and assurance support
• Construction and utilities management for civils, rail systems and water assets
• Claims avoidance, records management and contract administration

What we get asked for

The Gate 2 squeeze A scheme clears its business case and suddenly needs a commercial and controls team that already speaks Irish public works contracts. We know who has done it before and who is open to a move.

Approval is not construction Twelve bus corridors in Dublin have planning permission and one is in construction. Everything between those two states is procurement, commercial and controls work. That is the team we build.

Risk moved earlier The State now funds design, procurement documents and land before the approvals are certain. Money committed earlier needs control earlier. We shortlist people whose cost reporting has survived scrutiny.

For candidates in this sector

If your background is civils, rail, water, energy networks, commercial management or project controls, your experience maps to the work we do. Register your interest, tell us the locations and the kind of work you want, and someone from our team calls you to talk through the live roles and programmes we are working on.