Technical advisory support across the full lifecycle

Technical Due Diligence

Independent assessment of waste infrastructure acquisitions and investments, identifying technical risks but always with a strong focus on commercial and market factors.

We can assist in reviewing the technical risks and opportunities around your new waste infrastructure project or potential investment. We combine 25 years worth of technical and engineering experience in waste infrastructure with an extensive understanding of Australian waste market factors, commercial drivers and regulatory constraints. This gives our clients the independent evidence base they need to make confident investment decisions. Our technical advisory work covers all waste infrastructure types: MRFs, organics processing, transfer stations, landfills, energy-from-waste, and emerging circular economy technologies.

Typical outcomes

• Appraisal of technology, engineering, waste market and commercial factors
• Technical risk identification and mitigation
• Independent review of vendor claims
• Assumptions for financial models

Business Cases & Feasibility Assessments

Technically grounded business cases and feasibility reviews that give decision-makers the confidence to commit to infrastructure investments.

We can work with you to assess the feasibility or produce a business case for your new waste infrastructure project, upgrade or investment that integrates technical, commercial, market and operational considerations. Findings will be presented in a format that is targeted to the audience with a focus on identifying key risks and explaining them so that they can be adequately managed.

Typical outcomes

• Business case development and input
• Options analysis and scenario comparison
• Cost-benefit and financial modelling assumptions
• Presented in client specific format

Waste Infrastructure Procurement Support

End-to-end support to procure waste infrastructure and services — from initial procurement strategy and specification development through to tender evaluation, contract negotiation and delivery support.

We can support councils, government agencies and private owners through the technical aspects of the full procurement lifecycle for waste infrastructure — from initial project optioneering and procurement approach, to technical scoping, preparing tender documents, evaluating submissions and clarifying bidder responses. Our support can also extend into project delivery, providing a review or oversight function to ensure that project objectives are achieved.

Typical outcomes

• Technical scoping and specification development
• Tender documentation drafting
• Submission evaluation and scoring
• Support through tender clarifications and contract negotiations

Project Development Support

Whether you are scoping a new project, preparing a tender, or selecting and managing a multi-disciplinary team of engineers and consultants - we can help.

Waste infrastructure projects can be complex. They require inputs from many stakeholders and specialists - from planners, architects and engineers to builders, plant integrators and technology providers. We can help to make sure all bases are covered and that everyone is working together. We can also provide very specific technical support at different stages - whether that is a technology review, scoping of fire mitigation options or functional design review.

Typical outcomes

• A well planned project from the initiation phase
• Coordinated and integrated multi-discipline teams
• Robust assessment to support technology and equipment selection

Waste & Resource Recovery Systems - Strategies & Planning

Practical roadmaps that align your vision and resource recovery ambitions with market and commercial realities.

We work with councils, government agencies and industry to develop waste and circular economy strategies that are grounded in data, aligned with policy, and achievable in practice. Our strategies address material flows, infrastructure gaps, procurement pathways, and stakeholder requirements — all while considering the specific market and commercial constraints that will determine success.

Typical outcomes

• Waste and resource recovery strategies
• Circular economy transition plans
• Infrastructure assessments and gap analysis
• Action planning and progress assessment

Waste Data Analytics & Facility Reviews

Turning complex waste data into actionable intelligence and assessing existing operations to quantify performance and identify improvement opportunities.

Modern waste systems and processing facilities generate huge volumes of data and it is growing rapidly as smart technology plays a greater role. Most of that data is typically not well captured or utilised by operators and asset owners. We can analyse your waste mass balance and flow data and present it in a way that supports operational insights, strategic planning, contract performance monitoring and regulatory reporting. We can also conduct performance assessments, audits and operational reviews of existing waste and recycling facilities — to assess process performance and compliance, trouble-shoot specific issues, and identify practical options to improve efficiency and outcomes.

Typical outcomes

• Waste mass balance, flow and recovery analysis
• Process and contract performance assessment and reporting
• Operational performance assessment and benchmarking
• Identification of improvement opportunities and action planning