Solution definition
What should we build, for which market, and should a pilot come first?
An execution-led read of what to build, for whom, and whether a pilot should come first.
Advice at every stage of a capital asset, from decision to operation.
What is decided at the start still holds at go-live.
01
Decide
Before the capital is committed: what to build, whether it can be delivered, and what it will really cost here.
02
Structure
Before the packages go to market: how the asset is packaged, procured, approved and contracted.
03
Deliver
Through construction to go-live: governance that serves the business, and an organisation built to repeat.
04
Operate
Across the portfolio: what leadership sees, and how it reads performance and risk.
Who we advise
- Developers and concessionaires
- Investors and asset managers
- Sovereign asset owners
- EPC contractors
One side of any programme, so every client knows whose interest the advice serves.
How we work
- A review at a decision gateAn independent read before capital or a contract is committed.
- A defined piece of workA case, a strategy or a framework, delivered and handed over.
- Standing counselAlongside leadership through a programme, as the asset moves.
Most work begins with a review at a decision gate.
Expert advice for the decisions that shape cost, schedule and risk.
Decide
Before the capital is committedInvestment readiness
Can it be built at this cost, on this timeline, in this jurisdiction, and will the committee believe it?
A deployment case a committee can believe: buildable at that cost, timeline and jurisdiction, its risks ring-fenced, its upside never assumed.
Execution diligence
Before we invest: can this be delivered as the case assumes, and what could move it?
The investor's read before committee: whether the asset can be delivered as the case assumes, and what would move cost, schedule or risk.
Local-market CapEx review
Is this the cost of building here, or the cost of not knowing this market?
A CapEx built on this market: the method reviewed, local content and supply chain checked, local contractors engaged before the number is set.
Where this has been done
Structure
Before the packages go to marketDelivery strategy and packaging
Are we packaging to who can actually build this here, or to how we always have?
The implementation plan: the packages, who in this market can take each one, the interfaces and the risks, endorsed early and held.
Procurement and contracting strategy
Will our procurement reach the firms that can build this, and return competitive bids?
The contracting architecture: the right bidders for each package, and a process that satisfies governance and returns competitive bids.
Approvals and in-country requirements mapping
Are this country's approvals in the CapEx and the schedule from day one, or discovered along the way?
Every approval, licence, customs and contract-tax exposure mapped from the start, costed into the CapEx and laid into the schedule.
Where this has been done
Concession deliverability review
Once it's signed, can this concession actually be delivered as written?
Scope, obligations, milestones and grantor interfaces shaped on the developer's side, so the concession can be delivered as signed.
Where this has been done
Deliver
Through construction to go-liveDelivery governance and recovery
Is our delivery set up to serve the business and the go-live date, and to recover if a programme slips?
The owner's delivery function: governance, PMC or own team, and the decision cadence. When a programme is in trouble, the read and the recovery plan.
Developer operating model
Are we rebuilding the developer on every programme, or running one blueprint that repeats?
One blueprint for delivery: the team, structure and procedures that repeat across jurisdictions, with operations at the table from the first decision.
Operate
Across everything the client runsPortfolio performance framework
Across the whole portfolio, can leadership see what is on track and what is at risk?
What is measured, at which gate, and how performance and risk are reported across the portfolio. Specified by Melkaris, built by the client.
Where this has been done
Track record
The principal's project work behind the advice.
From the principal's delivery record: the functions performed on each project shown.
| Advice | Safaga Egypt | Luanda Angola | Pointe-Noire Congo | Douala Cameroon | Karachi container Pakistan | Karachi multipurpose Pakistan | Abu Dhabi Food Hub UAE | ICAD III UAE | East Port Said Egypt | Dubai Terminal 3 UAE | Zayed International UAE |
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| Decide | |||||||||||
| Solution definition | performed | performed | performed | performed | performed | performed | performed | performed | performed | performed | |
| Investment readiness | performed | performed | performed | performed | performed | performed | performed | performed | performed | ||
| Execution diligence | performed | performed | performed | performed | performed | performed | performed | performed | performed | ||
| Local-market CapEx review | performed | performed | performed | performed | performed | performed | performed | performed | |||
| Structure | |||||||||||
| Delivery strategy and packaging | performed | performed | performed | performed | performed | performed | performed | performed | performed | ||
| Procurement and contracting strategy | performed | performed | performed | performed | performed | performed | performed | performed | performed | ||
| Approvals and in-country requirements mapping | performed | performed | performed | performed | performed | performed | |||||
| Concession deliverability review | performed | performed | performed | performed | |||||||
| Deliver | |||||||||||
| Delivery governance and recovery | performed | performed | performed | performed | performed | performed | performed | performed | performed | performed | |
| Developer operating model | performed | performed | performed | performed | performed | performed | performed | performed | |||
| Operate | |||||||||||
| Portfolio performance framework | performed | performed | performed | performed | performed | ||||||