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Civil Engineering and Infrastructure

EPC contractors and project management consultancies for buildings, roads, bridges, rail, ports, airports and urban infrastructure, with architecture, design and masterplanning.

Steel structure and tower cranes on a Gulf construction site at sunrise, for civil engineering and infrastructure executive search
Where the market is moving

Across the Gulf, the pipeline of major projects has moved the scarcity from contracts to people. Clients can win the work. What they look for is the project and programme leader who has delivered at that scale, held a commercial position through complex contracts and kept a strong safety culture on large sites.

Project management consultancies and design studios face the same question from the owner's side: leaders who can orchestrate owners, regulators and contractors, and who bring digital delivery as standard. The leaders we place protect margin, develop national talent and speak to a client board with the same authority as to a site team.

What this practice covers
  • Contracting and project management, civil and infrastructure
  • Architecture and design
What we assess

Six checks before any candidate reaches your shortlist.

Each area of this industry has its own six checks, because each asks something different of its leaders.

Contracting and project management, civil and infrastructure

EPC contractors and project management consultancies for buildings, roads, bridges, rail, metros, ports, airports, water and urban programmes.

  1. 01

    Major programme leadership

    Leaders of large capital programmes such as airports, metros and masterplans, mapped in detail.

  2. 02

    Owner's engineer pedigree

    Programme management, owner's engineer and construction supervision credentials.

  3. 03

    Design and build interface

    Contractor management, claims and extension of time experience cross verified.

  4. 04

    Cost and schedule discipline

    Earned value, cost control and forensic scheduling expertise.

  5. 05

    Digital delivery

    Building information modelling, common data environments and digital twin programmes.

  6. 06

    Stakeholder orchestration

    Coordination across owner, regulator and contractor.

Architecture and design

Architecture, interior design, masterplanning, MEP consulting and built environment studios.

  1. 01

    Studio leadership

    Principal and partner grade studio leadership mapped across design houses.

  2. 02

    Portfolio pedigree

    Signature projects delivered and recognised.

  3. 03

    Typology depth

    Hospitality, residential, mixed use, cultural and aviation work cross verified.

  4. 04

    Digital design maturity

    Building information modelling, parametric and computational design fluency.

  5. 05

    Sustainable design

    A delivery record in green building, wellness and net zero design.

  6. 06

    Business development

    Client pursuit, fee negotiation and revenue accountability.

Roles we are engaged on

Senior leadership across the industry.

Representative roles. Every mandate is designed for the client concerned, and clients are identified only with their written consent.

  • Managing Director, EPC contractor
  • Country Head, project management consultancy
  • Programme Director, airport and metro
  • Project Director, roads and bridges
  • Head of Project Controls
  • Managing Principal, architecture studio
  • Design Director
  • Director, aviation and transport architecture
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