One of the most significant milestones for Bellwether in 2018, was the restructuring of the group to separate our consulting division and our construction division.
This occurred in in the lead up to the end of the financial year and the business now operates under a group umbrella. …
This planned restructure provides a clear separation of our offerings to the market.
Our consulting offering is primarily client-facing and incorporates all fixed fee and variable rate (hourly or capped daily) professional services work. The consulting team also provides a pre-contract-estimating function for Bellwether Contractors.
Bellwether Contractors will continue to be a principal contractor, with a core charter of pursuing projects that offer design and construct disciplines, and/or collaborative approaches and/or challenging engineering issues others shy away from.
The synergies between the businesses and the benefits to our clients include:
- Our consultants are involved in the planning and estimating of competitive construction tenders. Our performance in terms of methodology, materials, subcontractor pricing, productivity, management assumptions and margin are tested regularly against the market. This ‘real time’ intel puts us in a unique position in the consulting environment.
- Our consultants are well placed to provide key insights into the state of the markets in which we operate which can be valuable when contemplating a delivery/ contractor procurement mechanism.
- The ability to train/ expose young engineers to hard dollar civil contracting and get some ‘hands dirty’ experience.
- The ability for our management team to balance our resources, attract and retain the industries best.