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Advisory Services

Empowering Infrastructure 

We believe designing right goes beyond the drafting table. It also means equipping our clients with the strategic thinking to fund, optimize and make effective program decisions. We offer a helping hand in making that happen by:

  • Partnering with our clients for the best solutions
  • Leveraging our pool of worldwide talent 
  • Applying premium tools and cutting-edge methods that ensure confidence 
  • Crafting unique, game-changing recommendations 

Our 250-plus advisory services consultants provide an exceptionally deep link between the business, technical and engineering sides of your operation. They: 

  • Have been executives at government and private organizations, are seasoned engineers who have effectively applied needle-moving ideas firsthand, or are otherwise committed to careers that exclusively enhance infrastructure.
  • Seamlessly navigate a client’s organization and its needs from the boardroom to frontline and everywhere in between.
  • Provide an unmatched fusion of “Big Four” management consulting standards and our renowned focus on technical excellence.

Who We Serve

Helping communities manage the challenges of infrastructure development is our passion. Our advisory services professionals demonstrate this every day with clients in these sectors:

  • Buildings
  • Defense
  • Energy
  • Transportation
  • Water

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Strategic Planning & Policy

Our project finance experts provide financial planning, funding and grant analysis, and alternative delivery procurement insight. Service offerings include:

  • Asset Management Strategic Planning
  • Digital Advisory Services
  • Missioning, Visioning, Chartering
  • Organizational Communication Strategy and Improvement
  • Policy Development and Analysis

Our experts are industry thought leaders in climate adaptation planning, sustainability planning, sustainability return on investment analysis and environmental justice analyses. Service offerings include:

  • Climate Adaptation Planning
  • Environmental Justice Analysis
  • Metric-Based Analysis
  • Resiliency Mitigation Assessment
  • Resiliency Strategic Planning
  • Social Impact Analysis and Programming
  • Sustainability Planning
  • Sustainable Program Prioritization
  • Sustainable Return on Investment Analysis

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Management & Business Improvement

We provide insights to bring performance improvements to your business including services in governance planning, business process improvements, performance measurement, and capability maturity modeling. Service offerings include:

  • Business Process Optimization
  • Capability Maturity Modeling
  • Critical Operations Assessment
  • Governance Planning
  • Perf. Measurement, Modeling/Implementation
  • Readiness Assessment
  • Transition Management


Our project finance experts provide financial planning, funding and grant analysis, and alternative delivery procurement insight. Service offerings include:

  • Financial Feasibility Assessment
  • Funding Analysis
  • Grant Application Identification & Support
  • Long-Range Financial Planning
  • New/Small Starts & Core Capacity Planning
  • Privatization Studies
  • Public-Private Partnership Strategy Development
  • Real Estate Economics
  • Revenue/Expenditure Forecasting
  • Tolling Finance
  • Value Capture Analysis

Our economics team equips our clients with benefit costs analyses, life cycle analyses, portfolio prioritization, rate studies and more. Service offerings include:

  • Benefit-Cost Analysis
  • Congestion Pricing Strategy Development & Analysis
  • Economic Impact Analysis
  • Life Cycle Cost Analysis
  • Portfolio/Capital Program Optimization
  • Programmatic Risk Analysis
  • Public Benefits Assessment
  • Rate Studies
  • Statistical Analysis

We offer executive facilitation, brand management, reputation management, public relations, and crisis communication services. Service offerings include:

  • Brand Development
  • Crisis Communications
  • Executive Facilitation
  • Organizational Communications
  • Public Relations
  • Reputation Management

What We Do

We creatively package many of these offerings to help address many of our clients’ most timely needs, including:

Equity

Planning for a program that reflects organizational diversity goals

Environmental, Social and Corporate Governance

Developing strategies to better manage those less tangible corporate assets and expectations

Operational Resiliency

Ensuring smooth, uninterrupted service delivery

Business Transformation

Fundamentally redesigning a major part or the whole of a client’s organization

Environmental Policy

Streamlining all aspects of National Environmental Policy Act engagement

Digital Advisory

Making smart investments in technology and transitioning away from a data-rich, information-poor environment

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