What We Do

Planning

QRC can assist you during the early stage of your project, whether for a business case or preparing a tender.

• Feasibility studies
• Design specifications
• Preparing to tender
• Pricing
• Concept of operations
• Risk analysis
• Impact assessment
• Leadership and strategy

Tenders

Whether representing the client or the tenderer, QRC has extensive experience to support you with project plans, resourcing, pricing and strategy. We can help you to put together a high-quality bid, or on the other side, assess whether any bid submitted is value for money and covers all of your needs.

• Operational expert advice
• Operations and Maintenance pricing
• Commercial negotiation
• Contract management
• Insurance

Mobilisation

Once your project is awarded, we can assist you through all stages of the mobilisation in preparation for your accreditation. We have extensive experience and tools to ensure that your first day of passenger service is a success! We can also embed one of our team members into your organisation for the whole duration of the mobilisation phase.

• Identification of key personnel
• Organisational chart development
• Recruitment and selection
• Plan and procedure development
• Delivery and third-party interface advisory
• Commercial advisory
• Operational readiness
• Commercial negotiation
• Contract management

Operations

Our experts can assist you during operations, to reach a steady state or to audit your organisation, specific areas of concerns, or generally, the robustness of your processes. We can either perform collaborative and bespoke audits or have one of our team members assist or mentor you for a period of time to optimise your organisation. Ultimately, we have the satisfaction of your customers and client at heart.

• Operational safety
• Operational audits
• Incident and emergency management
• Key Performance Indicators/performance management
• Rail systems and light rail priority
• Crew scheduling and rostering
• Claims management

Scoping

We apply our technical expertise and experience to develop solutions designed to obtain the necessary environmental approvals and enable informed investment decisions. We identify environmental constraints and risks early, as well as your necessary specialist environmental studies.

• Tender support – pricing, writing, environment strategy
• Environmental constraints / scoping studies
• Environmental risk assessment
• Approvals pathway identification

Design

We understand that the design process is iterative and that a sustainable and approvable project involves collaboration, problem solving, evolution and improvement. We provide strategic direction and flexible ongoing input and advice in the design phase ensuring that our eventual impact assessment documentation is robust and comprehensive.

• Design Advice and Input
• Environmental Impact Assessment
• Review of Environmental Factors
• Statement of Environmental Effects
• Environmental Impact Statement
• Ecological Significance Opinion
• Development Assessment for Local Government

Construction & Operation

We provide environmental guidance and advice to internal stakeholders, to ensure compliance with conditions of approval and mitigation commitments.

We prepare, implement and report on environmental management plans, liaise with your external stakeholders including government bodies and the community if required.

• Environmental management plans
• Site inspections and compliance reporting
• Post approval support / conditions compliance
• Maintenance of Environmental Management System

Other

We also provide services that may not neatly fit within a specific project phase.

• Environmental policy and strategy development
• Regulatory and stakeholder engagement
• Project management
• Peer review and expert advice

• Lead and coordinate IS ratings
• Assist with a rating, embedding in the sustainability team
• Develop and/or review sustainability plans and strategies
• Infrastructure Sustainability Rating Scheme Assessor