utilities
Liberalisation, deregulation, privatisation, the utilities sector has experienced many changes and demands in recent history and will continue to for the foreseeable future.
Increased demand and commercial competition along with the need to maintain and upgrade an ageing and historically under funded infrastructure, presents common challenges across many different utilities.
The continued importance of environmental issues and the general public’s attention to such issues has resulted in the sector having to operating under increased media attention for sometime.
Operators across utilities sector continue to strive for more efficient and effective methods of generation, operation and delivery.
Issues such as sustainability are forcing a greater number to source for more renewable resources. Developments in technology have also eroded some of the natural monopoly aspects of some traditional public utilities.
An extensive and efficient utility infrastructure is an important asset to any nation, but the character of such an infrastructure presents many risks to existing civil engineering projects. Yet technologies have emerged to assist the engineer in managing these risks.
Schofield Lothian provides both Commercial and Project Management support to a number of the key contractors working in this sector, assisting in meeting the objectives and expectations of regulators and operators.
The following gives examples of project experience within this sector:
