Utility Advisory
We translate complex utility and planning regulations into buildable utility delivery strategies – challenging and defining the optimum scope, obtaining consents and land rights, develop phasing plans and programmes and estimating costs to reduce risk, unlock savings and get the programme on track.
Our experienced utility advisory team help clients navigate complex utilities, highways, rail, planning and cost sharing legislation.
This is especially valuable in the early stages of a project, when there is a need to define what diversions may be required, what land is needed, how long utility works could take and what the costs would be to obtain approval of the financial business case and to demonstrate value for money.
In other cases, our advisory team have completed due diligence audits throughout all stages of the project lifecycle, to give clients the assurance that their programme of utility work is on the right path or to provide them recommendations on areas of improvement or advice on risks and opportunities that exist to unlock savings.
Our clients engage us to:
- Manage strategic relationships with statutory undertakers.
- Develop solid governance and processes for their projects to set them up for success when dealing with statutory undertakers.
- Obtain utility information via asset record searches (C2 information).
- Develop feasibility studies and technical appraisal reports.
- Undertake utility impact assessments and clash checking.
- Undertake grid consultancy services to help define power availability and define optimum connection strategies.
- Develop commercial information, obtain C3, C4 estimates and cost forecasting.
- Developing procurement strategies to drive efficiencies in cost and delivery.
- Developing robust, accurate and logic linked P6 utility programmes.
- Undertake due diligence / strategic utility audits.
- Define land requirements for diversionary works and obtain land rights.
- Lower carbon emissions by defining solutions that result in a ‘build less’ approach.
- Manage all obligations of the parties to ensure all obligations are being discharged correctly to comply with legislation.
- Bid support.
Don’t know what you need? Why don’t you start by engaging us to undertake an independent strategic audit for utilities.
We provide objective audits of utility scope, costs and compliance on complex programmes. Our reviews combine contract entitlement with targeted cost, schedule and risk analysis – across both live works and forensic retrospectives. We test claims against the rules (NEC, NRSWA, WIA s185 and other legislation), market rates and evidence on the ground.
The result: optimised scope, recoverable savings, reduced carbon emissions by ‘building less’ and clear changes to processes and supplier behaviour – so future projects run safer, faster and better.
Need expert support for your next Utility Advisory project?
Get in touch to learn how our utility coordination and project management services can keep your scheme moving quickly, safely and more effectively.
