Infrastructure
Achieving better outcomes through infrastructure insights...
We’re your strategic infrastructure investment partners. We complement your technical specialists and work closely with your team to create resilient infrastructure built for tomorrow, benefiting the places and people you care about. We help your experts to do their jobs better, with a purpose-led approach that is focused on delivering smarter solutions and building your capability.
We focus on your organisational drivers, customers and community, supporting how you deliver infrastructure and assets.
We enable infrastructure success – measured by customer satisfaction and community prosperity. From early planning stages, we ensure your infrastructure investments consider the entire ecosystem driving that success.
We develop efficient and effective investment cases, portfolios, plans and delivery mechanisms to ensure your capital investments achieve meaningful impact.
Let’s rewrite the NZ infrastructure story...
...with Nonsuch, your infrastructure partners.
Key challenges and how Nonsuch can help
New Zealand’s infrastructure management system is highly complex, making it challenging for decision-makers to identify high-value investments and optimise outcomes for their communities. System and Improvement is one of the lowest scoring functions for all infrastructure sectors.
How Nonsuch can help:
Simplifying complexity for smarter decision-making
- We streamline the complexities of infrastructure management by applying tried-and-tested processes that create efficiencies, sharpen focus on high-value investments, and help decision-makers balance cost, risk, and benefits.
Workforce capacity and governance limitations are major barriers to improving infrastructure asset management, often leading to gaps in renewal, maintenance, and operational optimisation.
How Nonsuch can help:
Building capability and alignment
- We strengthen your organisation’s capacity by supporting workforce capability, coaching senior leaders, and delivering scalable, tailored systems. Our practical business cases and lifecycle practices ensure teams are aligned and optimised for effective delivery.
Many sectors perceive asset management as purely technical, focusing on capital projects or maintenance, rather than a strategic and holistic process that drives long-term value.
How Nonsuch can help:
Fostering strategic asset management
- Partnering with us ensures you have a holistic view of your infrastructure ecosystem.
- We provide strategic insights and practical support to align governance, funding, and operational goals, empowering you to make the right decisions at the right time.
Infrastructure must be adapted to cope with climate change impacts, such as rising sea levels and increased flooding, particularly in coastal regions.
New Zealand is prone to earthquakes and other natural disasters, requiring robust infrastructure that can withstand such events. Many existing structures need retrofitting or replacement.
How Nonsuch can help:
Strategic resilience for long-term impact
- Nonsuch integrates natural disaster and climate resilience into asset lifecycle planning, helping clients anticipate challenges and mitigate risks.
- We align infrastructure strategies with resilience goals, ensuring systems remain robust and adaptable under future pressures. By assessing risks and prioritising investments, we ensure resources are focused on delivering significant long-term benefits.
- Our approach combines strategic planning, practical solutions, and collaboration to create resilient infrastructure that supports sustainable, thriving communities, even in the face of New Zealand’s unique environmental challenges.
The Way Forward – your infrastructure pathway to impact.
Focusing on dollars alone won’t solve New Zealand’s infrastructure challenges.
As highlighted in the New Zealand Infrastructure Commission’s latest report, our country’s infrastructure needs are too vast to address through investment alone. Currently, we dedicate about one out of every twenty dollars to public investment, yet meeting the full demand would require doubling this – to nearly one in every ten dollars, and sustaining it over the next 30 years.
Here at Nonsuch, we believe there’s a better path forward. By creating tailored project pathways and empowering capable teams, we can drive lasting impact and bridge any gaps between your vision and outcomes.
Focus on now, shape the future. We help you understand, tailor, implement and embed well.
Assurance to set the foundation for success
Supporting you to access expertise for the right outcome
Embedding sustainability in every project
Engaging with Mana Whenua and integrating Mātauranga Māori
Strategic PMO services for seamless delivery
Workforce capability and training
Nonsuch Infrastructure Model: Building Infrastructure Success
We provide the expertise to assess the complexity of infrastructure plans, investments, and delivery environments, identifying gaps and evaluating the capability of the entire system. This process delivers valuable insights, a clear understanding of success factors, and a structured plan to implement practical solutions and strengthen capability for lasting impact.
Here’s how we deliver at Nonsuch:
Every asset lifecycle follows three core phases: Plan, Deliver/Acquire, and Operate. While simple in principle, these phases are often over-complicated, leading to inefficiencies. Nonsuch Consultants focus on streamlining these stages, integrating clear roles and straightforward practices that enable collaboration and informed decision-making.
We also create an environment where your teams can thrive—empowering them to deliver within expectations. Supporting your leadership to make confident, effective decisions upfront saves time and resources while setting the foundation for long-term success.
A well-developed business case, tailored to your needs and supported by stakeholders, is essential for securing funding and building early buy-in. Our framework links investment objectives to tangible benefits, explores robust options, and outlines practical plans for implementation.
Trained in the Treasury-endorsed Better Business Case methodology, our consultants guide you through every stage of the investment lifecycle, from initial intent to benefit realisation. We also provide accredited training courses to strengthen your team’s capability.
Beyond this, we assist with financial planning, funding strategies, and financial modelling to ensure your projects attract the investment they need.
Bringing together government bodies, private organisations, and communities, we facilitate collaborative stakeholder engagement that aligns priorities and builds shared understanding. This ensures infrastructure projects are not only technically sound but also reflective of the needs and aspirations of those they impact.
By fostering trust and collaboration, our approach helps smooth project delivery, enhances sustainability, and achieves outcomes that make a real difference to communities.
Simplifying complexity and charting a sustainable path to smart, practical solutions. We provide infrastructure planning services across a range of industries and settings, supporting long-term planning, infrastructure strategy, and master planning. Our approach ensures your investments are based on solid estimates and demonstrate value, enabling confident strategic decisions.
On the ground, we assist schools and service organisations in navigating the factors influencing property renewal, compliance, and maintenance plans, providing clarity and actionable solutions.
– your on-the-ground support
Achieve transparency across your portfolio and access the insights needed for informed decision-making.
We offer impactful project, programme, portfolio, and operational services, underpinned by systems and frameworks that address common challenges like delays, scope reductions, and cost overruns.
As a Microsoft Partner, we provide specialist training, technology, and assurance services across all aspects of P3M. Our approach focuses on delivering value through the pragmatic application of tools and frameworks, tailored to your needs.
– for peace of mind
We provide comprehensive risk assurance and regulatory compliance services, helping you identify, assess, and mitigate financial, environmental, and operational risks in infrastructure projects.
With extensive expertise in navigating regulatory frameworks, we ensure your projects comply with local laws and environmental standards, protecting both project integrity and community trust.
Meet your infrastructure team
Chris
Fisher
Principal Consultant
Sarah
Gill
Principal Consultant
Youssef
Mourra
Principal Consultant
Bridget
Carter
Senior Consultant
James
West
Senior Consultant
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry