Infrastructure Advisory

Our Infrastructure Advisory team supports client resourcing and expert advice needs across the full life cycle of major infrastructure investment planning and delivery, including public-private partnership (PPP) models. Our team of specialists has a wide range of practical experience gained from working and advising on the planning and delivery of major infrastructure projects in Australia and New Zealand. This includes Transport, Health, Justice, Education, Sport and Recreation, Arts and Culture and Major Events developments.

We have a philosophy that expertise comes with experience: Johnstaff’s team is made up of experienced practitioners and if you select our Infrastructure Advisory team, you get who you see in our proposal from the first meeting and throughout the project, not the office junior.  Each of our senior advisors has over 15 years of experience in leading the planning and execution of major infrastructure projects across the public and private sectors. Our team’s diverse public and private sector experience include professionals that have held executive roles in Australian and New Zealand governments, Tier 1 contractors, and multi-disciplinary project and design engineering houses.

Our approach is to ‘listen’ and ‘understand’ what the desired outputs are to allow us to help you create a genuine solution that is tailored to the unique situation of each investment need. The framework we put around this simple philosophy is what sets our offering apart. No one knows your business as you do, and we will treat your money as if it were our own.  This extends to our staff being embedded within our clients’ organisations when required.

Johnstaff also has a network of trusted partnership organisations, including financial, economic, technical and legal specialists. We draw on these relationships as needed to assemble comprehensive teams of project advisors that are adaptable to specific project needs.

Johnstaff believes that we offer an authentic point of difference in our approach and client relationship, that is, we refuse to be a post office box advisor that pulls a precedent off the shelf and merely tells the client how it is.

Johnstaff’s specialist infrastructure advice includes:

• Executive Project and Program Directors – senior executives for strategic roles within major infrastructure planning and delivery project teams, including Executive Project and Program Directors, Commercial Directors, Procurement Advisors, Transaction Managers and Operations Directors
• Construction Economics and Value Management – strategic cost analysis of major infrastructure initiatives
• Transaction and PPP Contract Management – expert technical and commercial transaction team leadership and management of complex PPP projects
• Specialist Scheduling, Programming and Resource Allocation – expert programme development, management and analysis for complex infrastructure projects
• Investment and Business Case Management – development of investment and business cases for government and private sector clients, including accredited Investment Logic Mapping facilitation
• Procurement and Delivery Options Analysis – preparation of Procurement and Delivery Options analysis and strategy
• Risk Management – risk identification, mitigation and qualitative and quantitative risk analysis
• Independent Project Review and Assurance – accredited, third-party independent assurance reviews, including Gateway Reviews, Project Assurance Reviews and Health Checks
• Project Recovery and Construction Dispute Services – recovery of distressed projects experiencing significant management and financial difficulties
• Industry and Stakeholder Engagement – designing and implementing frameworks for effective engagement and communication with project stakeholders, industry and markets