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COVER STORY
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
and consulting services industry
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.
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