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Technical Advisory
Specialist expertise, exactly when it's needed.
Engineering standards and standard operating procedures (SOPs), pilot studies, forensic engineering, crisis support, funding strategy, independent reviews, and operational support — beyond the standard project lifecycle.
OVERVIEW
Beyond the standard project lifecycle.
Not every engagement fits neatly into a typical capital project. Standards need updating. Pilots need evaluating. Failures need investigating. Grant deadlines come fast. Commissioning gets challenging. We provide specialist engineering insight in those moments — drawing on direct municipal asset ownership and operations experience.
Some of our most consequential work has happened outside a standard design-bid-build engagement: developing methodology frameworks for difficult-to-inspect mains, leading emergency responses and completing repairs on active sanitary trunk sewers and transmission and sub-transmission watermains, securing federal funding for a wet-weather storage facility, or scoping a region-wide real-time controls implementation strategy from first principles.
We engage as advisors, expert witnesses, technology evaluators, standard-setters, crisis responders, or commissioning oversight — whatever the moment calls for, with experienced, capable, senior attention from start to finish.
CAPABILITIES & OUTCOMES
What we deliver. What you get.
— WHAT WE DELIVER
• Engineering standards and standard operating procedure (SOP) development
• Pilot studies, innovation and research advisory
• Forensic engineering and failure analysis
• Crisis and emergency repair support
• Funding strategy and grant application support
• Independent technical reviews and second opinions
— WHAT YOU GET
• Senior engineering insight, exactly when it's needed
• Standards and SOPs that fit your operating reality
• Defensible forensic analyses and second opinions
• Funding strategies aligned to grant windows and program risk
• Crisis response that keeps options open and protects the asset
Have a specialist engineering question or moment that needs an experienced lens?