Experience built through delivering real infrastructure.
Civil Solutions brings practical experience from the planning, estimating, procurement and delivery of civil infrastructure across New Zealand.
Our experience ranges from individual civil projects through to major multidisciplinary infrastructure programmes valued in the hundreds of millions of dollars.
That experience has been gained working with asset owners, contractors, consultants and project teams across different sides of the industry — providing an understanding not only of how projects are designed and procured, but how they are priced, constructed and ultimately delivered.
Experience Across the Project Lifecycle
Concept & Planning | Cost Planning | Design Development | Procurement | Tendering | Construction | Commissioning | Close-Out
A design decision affects constructability. Constructability affects methodology. Methodology affects programme and resources. Programme and resources affect cost. Procurement and risk allocation affect how the market prices the project. All of those decisions ultimately affect delivery.
Understanding those relationships is central to how Civil Solutions approaches infrastructure projects.
Rail Infrastructure
Rail projects operate within a uniquely constrained delivery environment. Construction frequently needs to occur around live operational infrastructure, restricted access, possession windows, multiple technical disciplines and significant stakeholder interfaces.
- Stations and passenger facilities
- Rail corridor civil works
- Structures
- Track interfaces
- Drainage and utilities
- Road and rail interfaces
- Operational staging
- Possession and access planning
- Multidisciplinary design and construction
- Contractor and stakeholder coordination
This experience includes senior involvement in the planning and delivery of major rail programmes involving multiple concurrent projects and complex operational interfaces.
Roads & Transport
Transport infrastructure requires construction solutions that balance physical delivery with the need to keep people and networks moving.
- Road construction and upgrades
- Major traffic staging
- Utility interfaces
- Drainage
- Structures
- Pavements
- Temporary works
- Public and stakeholder interfaces
- Construction sequencing
- Complex access requirements
Constructability and staging are particularly important where works need to be delivered within existing transport corridors. Small changes to sequencing or methodology can have significant consequences for programme, cost and disruption.
Civil Infrastructure
Civil Solutions has experience across a broad range of general civil infrastructure.
- Earthworks
- Drainage
- Water infrastructure
- Utilities
- Pavements
- Retaining structures
- Concrete structures
- Site development
- Temporary works
- Access and logistics
- Environmental and site constraints
Our broad civil background allows us to understand the interfaces between different work disciplines rather than considering each package in isolation.
Structures
Structural works are often defined as much by the method of construction as by the finished design.
- Construction methodology
- Temporary works
- Access
- Lifting and installation
- Staging
- Interfaces with existing infrastructure
- Programme constraints
- Design coordination
- Procurement and fabrication
- Construction sequencing
Civil Solutions can work alongside structural designers and specialist contractors to ensure the proposed design can be translated into a practical construction solution.
Complex & Remote Projects
Some projects become difficult simply because of where they are. Restricted access, remote locations, limited local resources, difficult logistics and environmental constraints can fundamentally change the way a project needs to be planned, priced and delivered.
- Remote and island locations
- Marine and barge logistics
- Helicopter-supported construction
- Restricted site access
- Temporary accommodation and site establishment
- Material staging and handling
- Waste and environmental management
- Limited local supply chains
- Weather and access constraints
On these projects, logistics are not an activity sitting beside construction. Logistics are part of the construction methodology.
Experience at Scale
Our experience extends from individual civil works through to some of New Zealand’s significant infrastructure programmes.
This includes senior project and programme delivery experience across portfolios exceeding $700 million, as well as major tender, constructability and estimating involvement across complex civil infrastructure opportunities.
The scale of the project changes the management structure, governance and resources required. It does not change the need for practical construction thinking, clear accountability and sound commercial decision-making.
Different Perspectives. Better Decisions.
Civil Solutions has worked across different sides of infrastructure delivery: Asset Owners | Contractors | Consultants | Designers | Suppliers | Subcontractors.
We understand why clients need certainty, governance and transparency; why designers need clear requirements and timely decisions; how contractors assess buildability, programme and risk; and why successful projects require those perspectives to work together rather than against each other.
Selected Project Experience
Civil Solutions can provide relevant project examples based on the requirements of a particular commission.
Our wider experience includes major rail and transport programmes, station developments, road infrastructure, civil construction, structures, utilities and complex logistics projects.
View selected project profiles
Experience Is Useful. Applying It Is What Matters.
Past projects provide knowledge, but every new project has its own constraints.
Civil Solutions applies that experience to the problem in front of us — whether that is establishing an early project budget, solving a construction methodology, developing a major tender or leading a complex programme of works.