Project Management

Give us your hardest, riskiest project, that which is yearning to be created and we will bring your vision to life.

Having a depth of experienced people who have worked in client organisations that develop and deliver property, economic and social infrastructure projects, we take the time to understand the need, the benefits and the key objectives of each project.

We believe that successful infrastructure projects rely on collaboration. We pride ourselves on our proven track record building high performing teams that collaborate to achieve exceptional outcomes for our clients.

Our approach builds on the collective experience and expertise, combined with the energy needed to keep innovating and improving the way projects must respond to the pressures of an ever-changing environment. Our team has access to the most contemporary thinking and approaches real time project reporting through our digital services team to get control of your project from the outset.

Key Services

We deploy key people within client organisations to seed leadership teams and create the systems, project culture and governance required to deliver successful outcomes.

  • Embedded leadership
  • Strategic advice
  • Project governance

Interpreting corporate strategy, government policy and navigating the necessary investment hurdles, statutory controls and setting up a knowledge of the strategies needed to control and manage risk prior to committing to project execution.

  • Feasibility reports
  • Due diligence
  • Business cases

Whether it is a major/mega project or a series of program roll-outs of minor projects across regional or national geographies we have the team and the systems to provide you with the certainty of delivery outcome.

Deploying mature project management methodologies such as Agile, Prince2, PMBOK, including our own amongst others we have the people with the accreditation and proven market credibility to get the best out of every project. The people we offer have a subject matter expertise in core project management areas and are skilled at deploying the established and latest tools and software solutions for maturity assessments, risk, project planning, program management, cost management, reporting etc.

  • PMO establishment
  • Project delivery and procurement strategy
  • Programming and scheduling
  • Risk management
  • Functional and technical briefs
  • Procurement management
  • Design management
  • Contract administration
  • Superintendency

Leverage our knowledge base and deploy our systems to raise the capability of your own organisation or increase the capacity of your teams to respond to resourcing peaks with our teams.

  • PM toolkits
  • Real time reporting systems
  • Integrating business and project reporting systems

Turning around projects that aren’t delivering the outcomes clients are seeking or are just not moving and have little certainty of success.



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KEY CONTACTS

Andrew McKinley

Partner. National Manager, PM Solutions and Board Executive Director

Andrew is a skilled and passionate project management professional. He has extensive experience leading teams on large programs of works and complex projects to successful outcomes.

Andrew brings a proactive approach to project delivery, centered around promoting strong collaboration and teamwork to identify new opportunities for clients, effectively manage risk, and solving challenging problems through innovation.

His broad experience across the full project life cycle delivering both social and economic infrastructure includes planning, scoping, documenting, negotiating and administering complex commercial agreements and construction contracts for private and public sector clients.

Andrew’s professionalism and experience is demonstrated through his involvement as a Certified Practicing Project Director with the Australian Institute of Project Management and as a Chartered Engineer with Engineers Australia.

Fiona Tellefson

Partner. National Manager, Property

Fiona has extensive industry experience in growing and leading teams delivering flagship projects in diverse sectors throughout Australia. Fiona has delivered positive outcomes for both Government and Private Sector clients, enhancing the economic and social benefits for Australian communities.

Fiona has led teams delivering key projects in a number of sectors including commercial, education, health, retail, hospitality, industrial and Defence. Fiona held leadership roles in the delivery of the Melbourne 2006 Commonwealth Games and Melbourne 2007 World Aquatics Championships.

Fiona’s strong communication and engagement skills are essential to the successful project outcomes achieved. She has an open, collaborative approach working with the project team and key stakeholders to ensure the client vision is achieved in an innovative and cost effective way.

Paul Halpin

Partner. National Manager, Projects

Paul is a market leader in project and program management, with multi-sector experience. Driven by continuous improvement Paul develops high performing teams working closely with Clients to deliver valuable outcomes.

With a focus on delivering high quality solutions that deliver tangible benefits for the community, Paul continually demonstrates his expertise and ability in shaping the work environment, setting strategy, leading multi-disciplinary teams, and delivering tangible outcomes.

Paul represents government agencies and private clients to deliver complex projects through all forms of procurement. His technical strengths are strategic portfolio planning, PMO set up, contracting procurement, stakeholder engagement and communication, design and delivery management, cost and budget control, risk management and quality control.

Paul is client focused and actively leads teams to meet strategic project objectives.

Dr Mano Nugapitiya

Partner. Strategic Advisor

Mano is a qualified project specialist with a strong background in asset management, facility management and operations.

Mano delivers a whole of life asset approach to projects which he has demonstrated over more than 25 years’ experience in the industry. He has extensive experience planning and delivering large scale projects in social and economic infrastructure, predominantly in the public sector.

Specialising in the front end of projects, Mano ensures programs are aligned to organisation business strategies. His specialist skills also includes due diligence, technical leadership, business cases and transaction management.

Martin Coates

Partner. Strategic Advisor

Martin has extensive experience gained in leadership roles across government departments, major consulting businesses and private sector development and construction.

His knowledge spans numerous sectors, including social infrastructure and he has worked on projects required to adopt various delivery methods, including PPPs, alliancing, D&C, managing contractor and construction management.

Martin is experienced in aligning delivery strategies, commercial structures and design responses to the specific needs and objectives of clients while maintaining a key focus on market capacity, capability and constraints.

Martin has the ability to positively influence and motivate people to build productive, high performing project and organisation teams that benefit every stakeholder he works with.

Arvind David

Managing Director and Board Executive Director

Arvind represents Government agencies and infrastructure partners to develop and deliver complex social and economic Infrastructure projects.

Combining his experience in project management and organisation leadership, he brings together diverse project teams to create high performing teams that deliver exceptional project outcomes. Deploying his expertise in procurement, transaction management, technical leadership and contract management, Arvind leads teams on projects through all forms of delivery models.

Having worked for government delivery agencies he understands the specialised requirements of government and what it takes to deliver projects in complex stakeholder environments. His experience includes advising client on infrastructure in Australia, UK, Singapore and the USA.
Key Projects

Client: Victorian Health Building Authority (VHBA)

Value: $217 million

State: Victoria

Client: NSW Rugby Union (NSWRU)

Value: $18 million

State: New South Wales

Client: Development Victoria

Value: $272 million

State: Victoria

Client: Victorian Health & Human Services Building Authority (VHHSBA)

Value: $115 million

State: Victoria

Client: Court Services Victoria

Value: $73 million

State: Victoria

Client: Mildura Rural City Council

Value: $30 million

State: Victoria

Client: Development Victoria

Value: $88 million

State: Victoria

Client: NSW Department of Education (NSW DoE)

Value:

State: New South Wales

Client: Nillumbik Shire Council

Value: $16.5 million

State: Victoria

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