Project Delivery

Some clients want Arc to advise them and contract separately with a third-party EPC. Others want Arc to actually deliver the project. The two propositions are different and we sell them separately.

Project Delivery is the operational service. Arc takes the build, runs the site, manages the supply chain, and hands the system over commissioned and documented. We carry the operational risk and the delivery accountability. There is one party responsible for the outcome, and that party is Arc.

This service does not displace our consultancy work. Some clients engage Arc for consultancy only, with a separate contractor delivering. Others engage Arc to advise on one project and deliver another. Where Arc is the delivery party, we are not also the independent consultancy on the same project; the roles are kept structurally separate.

Project Delivery sits outside our consultancy practice. Where Arc is engaged as the delivery party, we are not also acting as independent consultancy on the same project. Clients who want independent consultancy continue to engage our consultancy services without any conflict.

The delivery work brings the same operational discipline as the rest of the firm. Documentation, accountability, programme governance, and reporting are run to the standards our property fund and institutional clients expect — even when we are the contractor rather than the consultancy.

If you want strictly independent oversight of a separately-appointed EPC contractor instead of Arc-led delivery, that is the consultancy Project Management service. They are different products for different clients and we are explicit about it.