Independent construction advisory · Australia-wide
The experienced headthat isn’t in the room.
For the subcontractor facing a first claim. For the builder whose delivery team is all graduates. For the client-side group without depth in contract administration or disputes. Three markets, one problem: nobody in the room has done this before.
Project experience
The work behind the judgement.
Projects delivered for, or alongside, the following contractors, consultants and manufacturers over the course of the principal’s career. Ambit is an independent practice and does not act for these firms.
- Pyropanel
- ASSA ABLOY
- Hacer Group
- Dulux Protective Coatings
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Track record
The experience is the product.
22
years in construction
Contract administration, delivery and disputes, from both sides of the table.
12
years in senior management
Running the commercial side of major projects, not advising on it from outside.
50+
projects
Residential, commercial and infrastructure, client-side and contractor-side. Stated conservatively.
$300–800m
annual project value
Across seven or eight concurrent projects, including work on multi-billion-dollar programmes.
Sectors
Where the work has been.
- Residential
- Health
- Hotels
- Data centres
- Infrastructure
- Prisons
- Defence
- Pharmaceutical manufacturing
Most construction disputes aren’t won on argument. They’re won on records — and on whether anyone can still read them by the time it matters.
Services
Seven lines of work. One kind of judgement.
Client-side project management
Running the project from the owner's side of the table, with someone who has sat on the other side of it.
02Contract administration and superintendency
The certifying role, run properly — assessments made on the contract and on the evidence, and documented so they survive scrutiny.
03Dispute resolution, claims and expert support
Preparing, defending and resolving payment claims, delay claims and contract disputes — and telling you early when a claim is not worth running.
04Tendering and procurement
Getting the tender and the contract right, because that is where the risk is priced and where it stops being negotiable.
05Value engineering
Finding cost that can come out without taking performance with it — and being clear about which is which.
06Process and systems analysis
Working out why the administration keeps failing, which is usually not a software problem.
07Global supply and manufacturing sourcing
Sourcing manufactured building product offshore, with the compliance and quality risk handled before it arrives on site.
Approach
How an engagement runs.
- 01
A conversation
Twenty minutes on what has happened and what you need. Free, and often enough on its own.
- 02
A read of the position
The contract, the correspondence, the records. What your entitlement actually is, and what the evidence will support.
- 03
A recommendation
In writing, with the reasoning. Including where the recommendation is to do nothing, or to settle.
- 04
The work
Scoped and priced before it starts. You know what it costs before you commit to it.
Start with a conversation.
No obligation and no charge for the first one. If the answer is that you do not need Ambit, that is a useful thing to find out in twenty minutes.
Acknowledgement of Country
Ambit works on the lands of many First Nations peoples. We acknowledge the Traditional Owners of Country throughout Australia, and in particular the Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung and Bunurong peoples of the Kulin Nation, on whose land this practice is based.
We pay our respects to Elders past and present, and recognise their continuing connection to land, waters and community.
