The future of Australian engineering services will be in adding value to the early conceptual and pre-feasibility phases of project delivery. Traditionally this phase of projects has been the domain of the owner's engineering team, but with smaller organisations to deliver new projects, owners are relying more on the contractors.
Over the past years Shedden Uhde has transformed itself to be ready for this new role and the past 12 months has been able to deliver on very large, technically demanding projects in the international market.
This paper describes the development of systems, procedures and personnel within one of the region’s leading multidiscipline engineering and project delivery contractors.