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Technical Advice

Civil, Hydraulic and Mechanical Engineering

Our advisors have strong technical knowledge and expertise in Civil, Hydraulic and Mechanical Engineering, coupled with a raft of chartership and qualifications from relevant institutions and organisations. Having delivered design and construction schemes from inception to delivery on the ground, our advisors are putting their expertise to the service of our clients.

We provide advice in terms of scope definition, technical specifications, design reviews and method statements reviews, H&S, Site Supervision etc.

Strategies & Business Cases

Our advisors support a variety of clients in designing and implementing strategies and delivering business cases within the Water and Environment Sectors with outstanding results. We have a strong track record of strategies implemented and business cases delivered right-first-time.

Our approach unfolds by deploying a 'soul-searching' initiative at the very outset of a project or initiative, whereby we help clients identify and formalise their needs and the best strategies to deliver them. This process requires not only technical competence but an ability to fully integrate within the client's organisation in order to identify bespoke solutions. We carefully select our advisors based on their technical competence and their ability to fully understand the specific needs of our clients.

EIA, Consenting and Planning

Our advisors have in-depth experience supporting the Environment Agency, Local Authorities and Risk Management Authorities to deliver EIA, Consenting and planning activities. Our ability to tailor our inputs allow us to provide valuable advice for all types of schemes.

Our advisors have a strong track record supporting clients to deliver a variety of schemes, ranging from small asset repairs where minimal EIA and Consenting inputs are required, to very large scale infrastructure schemes such as HS2 and the 130Km Fens Bank Raising Scheme where complex planning, consenting and EIA issues must be interweaved within the technical delivery.

Stakeholder Engagement

The success or failure of a project often depends on how key messages are communicated and stakeholders engaged. We have a wide range of experienced professionals with excellent track records supporting a variety of clients to deliver complex multi-disciplinary, multi-stakeholder schemes.

In order to provide tailored, high-quality services we only deliver stakeholder engagement services in the Water and Environment Sector where our advisors have in-depth understanding of the technical aspects of project delivery, key stakeholders involved and what their key drivers are. This allows us to identify potential 'crisis points' and implement bespoke engagement strategies early on.

Finally, we are at the forefront of technological advances and have successfully made good use of innovative engagement platforms such as Engagement HQ and more recently Citizen Space.

River Restoration, Natural Capital and Geo-morphology

The need to implement multi-benefit, sustainable solutions has become more apparent over the years. We have got a very strong team of advisors with expertise in the design and implementation of award-winning River Restoration and Catchment Management schemes.

This allows us to offer a one-stop-shop solution to our clients, thanks to our complementary engineering and hydraulics skills, ensuring our soft-engineering solutions are sound. Our in-depth understanding of Partnership Funding allows us to draw contribution from a variety of stakeholders to enable the implementation of economically challenging schemes. Finally we can offer top quality hydrogeological and groundwater modelling advice.

Commercial Advice

Project and Programme Management

We provide high quality Project and Programme Managers as well as Project Director or Executive services in the Water and Environment Sector in the UK. Our advisors have demonstrable experience and track records in the industry with numerous award-winning schemes under their belt.

Together with their vast experience and qualifications, our advisors all possess a strong engineering background – this allows them to pro-actively engage and find a common ground amongst the numerous disciplines required to deliver complex schemes. Through getting under the skin of complex technical issues they can make the best of the technical expertise available to drive efficiencies and optimise delivery.

Procurement strategy

We live in challenging times where the need to demonstrate value-for-money is key. This is typically achieved by ensuring due process is followed. However this seldom delivers 'real' value to our clients.

Our advisors make best use of their in-depth experience delivering multi-disciplinary schemes, thus embracing a holistic approach that considers not only procurement processes, but also key technical, commercial and legal aspects of the delivery in order to identify the optimal strategy to achieve our Clients' outcomes.

Our guiding priciple is to place our Clients at the centre of our efforts by providing them with the tools and information to allow them to make an informed decision. This process unfolds by 'teasing out' their needs, translating them into technical, commercial and legal propositions, identifying potential procurement options and assessing them using multi-criteria analysis.

Supplier management

One of the most important client tasks is that of supplier management. We provide experienced support to our clients, making sure our clients receive value for money, but also working to build strong long-lasting relationships.

Our advisors have extensive experience working on the supplier's side and therefore are able to go over and above the simple contract management and work on identifying incentives for good behaviours and win-win solutions.

This offers a valuable perspective that helps in understanding each party's drivers and challenges and identify optimal ways of working.

Asset management

The typical scheme in the Water and Environment Sector delievered in the UK has significantly changed over the past 20 years, from large capital schemes to asset maintenance and repair interventions. This means changing the approach to project delivery to an Asset Management driven one, where the assessment parameters change to include maintenance, carbon and sustainability as well as challenging the function and need for a specific asset.

Our advisors have the required breadth and depth of knowledge and experience to help clients navigate through this changing approach, creating bespoke, low maintenance solutions, which consider clients' typical struggle with budgets and resources. By embracing a holistic approach which calls into question regulatory, hydraulic and technical aspects, we are able to support our clients identify and implement optimal, future-proof solutions.

Resource Management

Resource management is often considered an intractable problem, with the potential to create frictions and inefficiencies within an organisation. We have several years’ experience designing and implementing resource Management Systems for complex, multi-layer organisations with outstanding results in terms of Increased Utilisation; Reduced Staff Turnover; Increased Resource Resilience and Flexibility.

The key to our success lies in discussing key objectives and outcomes with our clients, come up with a bespoke approach to managing resource pools, test-run it, refine it and rolling it out using carefully planned communication techniques.