Advisory skills help AEC firms support project owners in addressing essential questions as they develop strategic solutions to business challenges and opportunities.
- What market forces are project owners responding to?
- What should project owners do?
(Facility and infrastructure alternatives) - Are there non-capital solutions given scarce capital?
- How should the capital asset be structured?
(Ownership, service delivery, governance, financing, and commercial models) - What project viability risks could prevent this capital investment from achieving stated outcomes?
- How should the capital asset be procured?
Strategic advisory and project development skills includes:
- Identifying macro drivers for capital investment
- Identifying business challenges and opportunities
- New development, re-development, renewal, and repurposing strategies
- Identifying all possible capital and non-capital options
- Alternatives analysis
- Ownership and operating models
- Funding and financing analysis
- Risk analysis
- Scoping and opportunity analysis
- Pre-feasibility and feasibility analysis
- Business plan/business case analysis