Marchment Hill Consulting (MHC) brings deep knowledge of all aspects of the water industry, including irrigation, wholesale and retail businesses, governance, markets and regulation, and private sector participation. Our water sector experts understand the industry pressures for increased funding for growth and renewal, customer centricity, and improved productivity and efficiency.. These pressures are accompanied by…
Outsourcing, typically of maintenance services, has become widespread practice for cost reduction and service level performance improvement in the water industry. Some water businesses are now entering the third, or even fourth, generation of outsourced services while others are just starting to consider and test the benefits that may be available. Viewed on a continuum,…
The agricultural output in our client’s region is forecast to double by 2030 which requires 50% increase in water availability. In order to accommodate this growth, our client will need to invest significant capital in upgrading and expanding its network. However, it could not increase its current debt levels or raise pricing. A 20% growth…
Perhaps climate change is not the only reason, but there is fresh attention being paid to the challenges of uncertainty in water management and supply. Like its counterpart, risk, uncertainty can generate opportunity as well as downside. Intelligent networks help generate opportunity from uncertainty, as they give us the means to link distributed system awareness,…
Recent Engagement: Our client, a large water authority in Australia with a significant capital works program, introduced a new contracting model in early 2012 to deliver its Asset Renewal Program. The program was introduced with the objective of realising improved cost efficiency and value for money, optimising project delivery timeframes, enhancing its position as an…
Our client, an Australian water retailer, required an external review of their Asset Management (AM) system capabilities and performance. In recent times, the systems had been seen as an inhibitor to the business rather than a facilitator, due to the large number of different systems and the difficultly in consolidating information kept in multiple systems….
Many of you would have seen recent media of leaked budgetary papers from TasWater quoting Marchment Hill’s consulting costs for the design of their new organisational structure. Marchment Hill would like to emphasise that this project was a very complex merge of four corporations – Ben Lomond Water, Cradle Mountain Water, Southern Water and Onstream…
Melbourne Water Corporation, a bulk water authority in Victoria, engaged Marchment Hill Consulting (MHC) to conduct value chain analysis of its Capital Planning and Delivery function. This function was responsible for delivering $3.5b of capital expenditure over a 5-year period. Value chain analysis was conducted in the following areas: strategic planning; program planning; business needs…
In the past few decades, private or hybrid ownership models have become the norm for electricity generation, energy retail and telecommunication assets. Road infrastructure and electricity networks are still largely in public hands, but privatisation is gradually happening in these sectors too, and is now more widely accepted as legitimate and safe by the community….
The level of attention being directed towards service delivery models in the Australian water industry is currently at unprecedented levels, with most large water businesses now either actively assessing options for the delivery of operations and maintenance (O&M) services, or well down the path of implementing these new options. It is timely, therefore, to examine…