Modern Mining November 2015

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and consulting services industry

clients in both the public and private sectors. “Their expertise resides in developing projects – typically large infrastructure and energy proj- ects – into the right format to move forward,” he states. “They made no claim, however, to having the engineering or contracting skills to take projects into construction. “WorleyParsons acquired Evans & Peck to add to its range of services and initially simply allowed it to carry out its traditional role under the WorleyParsons umbrella. The decision was taken last year, however, that a significant enhanced offering could be pro- vided to the market through the joining of our strategic and management advisory offering with the traditional technical consulting skills of WorleyParsons to create an advisory service

able to address the needs of clients at every point in the project development cycle.” One of the factors influencing the decision to create Advisian was a major strategic rethink by WorleyParsons’ management designed to reposition the group to meet the challenges of a fast-changing global economy. “This strategic rethink obviously involved a great deal of market evaluation and research and one point to emerge was that there was definitely a demand (and a significant client offering enhancement) in the marketplace for a ‘one-stop’ advisory service combining man- agement and strategic advisory services with a multi-disciplinary, in-depth technical consult- ing capability,” says Boughton. Elaborating, Boughton explains that in the

Above: Wesizwe’s Bakubung platinum mine in the Western Bushveld, presently under development.

WorleyParsons, including the team now in Advisian, has been involved in all phases of the project, from the study stage through to implementation. Below: Advisian can bring virtual reality technology to bear during the planning and design of projects.

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