Policy Planning

Priorities in infrastructure development are changing. New and different customers place new demands on existing facilities and systems. Innovations in technology present an array of new challenges to infrastructure developers and owners – both public and private. At the same time the roles of government and the private sector are shifting in many sectors. Downsizing, outsourcing, devolution, and privatization are introducing new responsibilities and relationships as well as altered risks and rewards. These dynamics have led to the need for both government agencies and major private service providers to reconsider the existing allocation of sectoral roles, including new missions, changed policy priorities, performance focus and new types of partnerships.

PB Consult’s senior staff include veterans of major public agency and authority management with proven track records of “change management” leadership. PB Consult has been in the forefront of supporting the development of new forms of partnerships in transportation as well as power and telecommunications. In addition, senior specialists have special capabilities in policy development, focusing on customer-based performance, public-private relationships, policy-impact analysis, scenario building and other processes designed to develop and test appropriate policy evolution. As infrastructure institutions reinvent themselves, PB Consult has an array of supporting services to offer.

Process Streamlining

PB Consult assists clients in overcoming the environmental, statutory, political, and community impediments to timely project delivery. The traditional environmental and engineering consultant is focused on technical review and analysis associated with the pre-design phase of a project. However, the traditional consulting firm is not equipped to supply the combination of strategic, legal and regulatory advice available within PB Consult that is necessary to help resolve delay-producing disagreements during large-scale project development. The sheer complexity of environmental reviews and permitting requirements, coupled with resource agencies that continue to push the envelope in terms of what is required to mitigate for transportation project impacts, calls for a strategic advisor and problem solving facilitator to complete the process in a timely manner.

Project Partnering

PB Consult has taken project partnering to the next level by applying the process, more traditionally used during the construction phase of a project, during the environmental phase of major transportation projects. Our partnering experts are known for their ability to bring together traditionally adversarial parties around a common interest, and ultimately achieve and sustain collaborative participation on a project.

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