Racing Line

The Racing Line: decision-making approach

Infrastructure projects are under pressure like never before—costs escalate, timelines slip, and operational goals fall short with value not realised and society failed. To break this cycle, we have developed the Racing Line, a new approach to decision-making by blending tried and trusted ideas.

The Racing Line helps infrastructure owners unlock success across the full life-cycle of infrastructure projects for themselves, their stakeholders, the end-user and society as a whole by maximising value, optimising infrastructure and balancing risk and reward.

Why the Racing Line?

• Learn from past projects – draw insights from previous infrastructure successes and failures.

• Gain from our outside perspective – to be combined with the infrastructure team’s inside perspective.

• Define and understand the purpose – and align with client values and societal needs

• Focus on balancing competing objectives - and how they change from a cost and time perspectives at the construction stage to cost, operational performance and safety or sustainability perspectives.

• Strategic decision optioneering – evaluate strategic scope, financing, procurement and contracting options using our Risk-based decision-making methodology.

• Maximise whole-life value – by balancing:

  • CAPEX and OPEX,

  • Whole-life cost and benefit,

  • Whole-life risk and reward

  • Performance, reliability, safety balanced against resilience.

• Create Infrastructure memory – build a comprehensive record of strategies, decisions, and events to gain a “past, present and future” view of your infrastructure.