Gaining greater value from your projects and programmes than you spend, over their lifetime, is fundamental.
Yet many struggle to achieve their desired return on investment, in the face of myriad challenges – such as market constraints, project complexity, resource scarcity and wage inflation.
Moreover, projects can sometimes be poorly matched with their objectives – or poorly executed even if well aligned and designed.
Working with an experienced cost, commercial and quality manager can help you spot and manage the risks, making positive returns much more certain.
We work with you across the project lifecycle, finding and adding value at every stage. Cost and commercial management has been core to our business since the 1860s, and we have guided successful outcomes for many of the world’s most challenging projects.
Project shaping
The greatest opportunity to improve whole-life project performance is in the early optioneering and shaping stages. We integrate our practice with our wider capabilities, like economic policy and regulation, investment and business case development, procurement and supply chain management, risk and planning, and strategic asset management.
In addition to the costs of materials, construction methodologies, project logistics, labour and energy, we account for your environmental, societal and climate needs too, like embodied and operational carbon emissions, climate resilience, social value and biodiversity net gain.
Digital delivery
We take a digital first approach to project delivery, using common data environments to achieve collaboration and enable the flow of information. That achieves faster and better understanding of how decisions impact commercial performance, as well as supporting proactive decision making and minimising the risk of duplicated effort.
Our experts work with design teams to link asset models with data on prices, carbon factors and more, so that the impacts of design decisions are immediately clear.
We use dashboards for reporting and analytics, giving you and your delivery partners visibility of issue and risk management, programming and scheduling, cost forecasting and cash flow, change control and procurement management.
Social outcomes
Our experts in social outcomes and stakeholder engagement work alongside our cost, commercial and quality team. Their skills can help you to identify and realise opportunities to add value for your customers, communities and society that sometimes save money and are often cost-neutral or will pay back investment.
Whole-life performance
We help you to identify and minimise design features that could expose them to potential future costs. We also help to shape projects for adaptability so that they can respond to possible changes in demand, use, regulation or input costs.
Our award-winning quantity surveyors, cost management consultants and cost engineers work across all economic sectors. Their skills span cost forecasting, negotiation and account closure services, working with asset owners and end users, property developers and financiers, and for public and private clients.
Identify, calculate, and reduce embodied and operational carbon emissions. This infrastructure carbon calculator is aligned to PAS 2080, the international specification for managing carbon across the built environment (co-authored by Mott MacDonald). It allows anyone across your business and supply chain to identify and calculate carbon emissions, not just carbon experts.