Thinc’s Civic and Public team has acknowledged expertise in every aspect of the planning and delivery of projects for government clients. Our Civic and Public team has successfully realised hundreds of projects on behalf of clients in Federal, State and Local government. As a result, our portfolio encompasses embassies, libraries, convention centres, theatres, aquatic centres, law courts, detention centres, prisons, offices and residences.
Our specialist team understands the issues that are important to clients in this sector, including probity, reporting, procurement procedures, legislative and code requirements, reporting requirements, structured risk assessment and management, and working within the delegations of public officers. Our experience in this sector means that we consistently deliver public projects on time and on budget.
Our Experience – Featured Projects
Northern Territory Strategic Interventions Thinc’s Resources team was engaged to provide advice to the Australian Government on the development of a major remote indigenous housing program in the Northern Territory. 
Brisbane City Hall Restoration Thinc’s State and Local Government team was engaged as project manager of the restoration of Brisbane City Hall. 
Armidale Courthouse Redevelopment The project scope included a local and district court, jury deliberation chambers, offices for the registrar and staff, and facilities for court users.Our Services
We offer the full range of advisory and project management services to the Australian Civic and Public sector.
Our advisory services span:
- Strategic planning
- Business case preparation
- Stakeholder management
- Facilitation of private sector/government negotiations
- Project definition
- Risk management
- Delivery strategy advice
- Procurement strategy advice
- Project organisational structure advice
- Transaction management.
Our delivery services include:
- Mobilisation and implementation
- Client representative
- Project director
- Project management and implementation
- Project procurement management
- Commercial management (cost/contract)
- Environmental management
- Safety management
- Programming and scheduling
- Project controls
- Quality management
- Project superintendency
Our Approach
We begin each project by working closely with our client to define the project objectives and ensure they are aligned with the client’s business objectives. This involves balancing concerns such as policy compliance, social responsibility, environmentally sustainable design and the need for transparency with traditional commercial project criteria such as cost, time and quality.
We document requirements in an accurate brief, prepare business cases and report to satisfy governance requirements. Our team then formalises a detailed methodology for delivering the project that defines the critical path and how the various component activities will be delivered. We work in a collaborative, non-adversarial way with all project stakeholders at each phase of a development.
In delivering a project, we rely on watertight systems and procedures for managing programming, cost, communication, quality and staffing. We also put a central emphasis on risk management, value management and cost control, which we manage through tight design management, scope reconciliation and early establishment of appropriate scope-budget alignment.
Contact Us
For all enquiries, please phone your local regional manager:
- Kieran Fordham, ACT Ph 02 6122 1000
- Chris Wassef, NSW Ph 02 9256 4700
- Mark Snowden, NT Ph 08 8943 6900
- David Hudson, QLD Ph 07 3221 8425
- Craig Nicholls, SA Ph 08 8113 0800
- James Coffey, VIC & TAS Ph 03 9654 6799
- Greg Kimpton, WA Ph 08 9429 6700
