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Engineering & operations advisory

Infrastructure that performs for decades.

Corporate is an independent advisory group for the owners of energy, transport, water and industrial assets. We help you plan, deliver and run them better — and prove it.

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Site review · capital programme

Who we are

About Corporate

We are engineers, operators and advisers who have spent careers inside the organisations we now serve. Our work starts where strategy meets steel, concrete and control rooms — and ends when the improvement is running without us.

Corporate is independent of contractors and equipment suppliers. That lets us give owners advice that is grounded in engineering and accountable to outcomes.

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years advising infrastructure owners
28
engineers, operators and analysts
1,400+
countries with active client work
37
capital programmes advised on
£48bn

Illustrative demo figures

Solutions

Five practices. One accountable team.

Each practice is led by people who have run the assets they now advise on. Most engagements draw on two or three of them.
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  1. Brass pressure gauges and valve handwheels on steam plant machinery

    01

    Asset Strategy & Investment Planning

    Decide what to renew, extend or retire — and defend the plan to boards and regulators.

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  2. Tower cranes over a building under construction, silhouetted against a blue evening sky

    02

    Capital Programme Delivery

    Independent programme leadership that keeps complex builds on cost, on schedule and safe.

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  3. Power plant control room with operator desks, monitors and large wall displays

    03

    Operations & Maintenance Performance

    Raise availability and throughput from the assets you already own.

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  4. Wind turbines on the horizon above a wheat field at sunrise

    04

    Energy Transition & Decarbonisation

    Turn net-zero targets into engineered, financed and sequenced programmes.

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  5. Two people at a desk with laptops, sketching and annotating a technical diagram on paper

    05

    Digital Engineering & Asset Data

    Make asset data trustworthy enough to run decisions on.

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Industries

Sector depth where the assets are hardest to run.

Six markets, each served by people who have worked inside them — from network control rooms to processing plants.
Industries we serve

Featured case study

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Illuminated quay cranes lining a container terminal at dusk under a deep blue sky

Ports & Logistics · Northern Europe · 2025

Lifting terminal throughput without a single new berth

Client: Regional container terminal operator (demo)

Challenge
Vessel sizes had grown faster than the terminal's quay. Crane availability averaged below target, and yard congestion at peak meant trucks waited up to two hours.
Approach
Measure the losses → Fix reliability first → Re-plan the yard → Make it stick
Outcome
Within nine months the terminal handled materially more moves per crane hour, and truck turnaround fell to under an hour at peak.
Read the case study

22%

more moves per crane hour

54 min

average peak truck turnaround

4 yrs

berth extension deferred

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“Corporate showed us we had a planning problem, not a quay problem. That changed the conversation in our boardroom.”
Chief Operating Officer, terminal operator (demo)

How we work

From diagnosis to durable performance.

One team stays with the work from the first site walk to the moment the improvement runs without us.

  1. Phase 01 · 4–6 weeks

    Diagnose

    Walk the sites, read the data and agree the few questions that matter most.

    OutputFact base & case for change

  2. Phase 02 · 6–10 weeks

    Design

    Engineer and cost the options, then build a plan your board and regulator can back.

    OutputInvestment-grade plan

  3. Phase 03 · Months to years

    Deliver

    Lead or assure delivery alongside your teams, with weekly decisions and clear controls.

    OutputMeasured results on site

  4. Phase 04 · Ongoing

    Sustain

    Hand over routines, data and capability so performance holds after we leave.

    OutputCapability in your team

  • 01

    Practitioners, not generalists

    Our partners have run plants, programmes and networks. Most of our people hold professional engineering or operations qualifications.

  • 02

    One model from plan to performance

    The team that diagnoses the problem stays to deliver the result, so nothing is lost at hand-over.

  • 03

    Evidence your board can test

    Every recommendation is traceable to data and site observation, and documented to withstand regulatory scrutiny.

Insights

Perspectives from the field.

Research and practical notes from our engineers and partners.
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Start a conversation

Tell us about the asset, the programme or the problem.

No sales team and no generic pitch — you will speak directly with a partner who has worked on challenges like yours.

  1. Step 1

    Share the context

    Tell us about the asset, programme or problem.

  2. Step 2

    Speak with a partner

    A senior practitioner replies within two business days.

  3. Step 3

    Agree a first step

    Usually a short, fixed-fee diagnostic.

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