Infrastructure

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Infrastructure

With significant planned government investment and transformational projects like HS2 underway, this sector is experiencing healthy growth.

However, where spend is especially scrutinised and value for money is sacrosanct, carefully managing risk as well as delivering on time and to budget has never been more important. Whilst driving productivity has always been high on the agenda, we’ve increasingly seen clients are grappling with collaboration. Often discussed but rarely effectively implemented, it can be a game changer for expediting delivery and guaranteeing quality.

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Sub-sectors

Utilities

We work across every area of the asset life cycle from capital delivery teams, to R&M gangs, customer service and billing functions.

Road

We have extensive experience in the Highways sector having completed multiple award-winning engagements.

Rail

We support rail providers with the transformation of their track and asset maintenance contracts.

How we help

Our detailed and hands on approach enables us to identify issues, enhance interfaces and fundamentally challenge the status quo.

Who we work with:
  • Operatives/Gangs
  • Planning & Scheduling
  • Commercial Functions
  • Team Leads and Supervisors
  • Professional Engineering Teams
What we do:
  • Improve productivity of delivery teams
  • Address issues to improve effectiveness
  • Enhance the way work is planned and managed
  • Ensure capital works is delivered to time and budget
  • Coach managers in the skills they need to manage their teams
What we have achieved:
  • Step changes in field productivity
  • Significantly reduced backlogs
  • Enhanced commercial processes resulting in reduced WIP levels
  • Increased first time fix and reduced costs such as overtime & penalties
  • Improved project delivery speed and adherence to schedule

Our expertise

  • Unpicking strained relationships and working both sides of the interface to resolve deep-rooted issues
  • Strengthening project controls such as planning and reporting
  • Coaching managers in areas such as accountability and active management
  • Enhancing productivity whilst more effectively managing cost and risk
  • Designing enhanced governance structures at all levels of management
  • Defining and coaching out roles and responsibilities so that individuals are clear on what they should be doing

Results

£1.3M
Annualised benefits
29%
Average productivity improvement
Successfully embedded a collaborative change programme in the Highways Sector to get partner organisations pulling in the same direction and achieving a signficant step change in productivity
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