Project Governance
To guarantee good project governance for all of our clients, HJA provides expert auditing, scheduling, and oversight services. This includes audit of compliance with contract requirements and dates, ongoing assessment of procurement processes, in-depth review of cost and time performance in regards to targets, schedules and budgets, safety and compliance reviews, health checks, master cost management, design controls.

Expert Research and Procurement Management
HJA conducts detailed market research to identify trends, risks and opportunities in supply chains. This research is used to provide excellent procurement strategies designed to best achieve project outcomes. Procurement planning and research encompasses contractor analysis and short-listing, addressing and identifying authority risk, setting milestone requirements for operational continuity and finally, leading, constructing and managing in-house procurement teams.

Cost Management and Financial Planning
At HJA, our overall objective is to reduce construction costs and time without any compromise to performance, quality output and profit. HJA assists in making value for money more obtainable within the industry. Achieving the best value in relation to construction costs entails controlling and managing the project as well as controlling the procurement so that the most suitable contractors are used. HJA’s approach to construction cost management is to be positive and proactive rather than reactive. Furthermore, HJA provides expert financial planning and management services through the identification of supply-chain trends, selection of specific building materials, market research and analysis, monitoring of economic conditions and expectations, project budget analysis and acknowledgement of finance requirements.

Tendering and Contractual Administration
HJA offers a wide range of contract administration advice based on past experience in managing commercial construction and infrastructure projects. HJA provides value at all stages of the contract, from the bid-preparation stage, to pre-contract negotiation and drafting, to post-contract management and delivery, and finishing with the close-out phase of mega projects. HJA assists in tender preparation, project oversight and delivery management (enforcement), contract special provisions drafting, procurement packaging, etc.

Contract Negotiations
HJA has a long history of providing excellent negotiation strategies for large-scale construction contracts to obtain favourable terms and agreements for clients.

Programming and Cost Management
HJA has analytical programming, contract and cost management skills coupled with knowledge and experience of multi-billion dollar projects. This enables us to identify the causes of problems and their effects on programming and costs.

Risk Analysis
HJA aids clients in the identification, quantification and evaluation of potential project risks, while providing dynamic and ongoing risk response plans and strategies. This includes developing risk strategies to be included in supply-chain contracts, analysing the project schedule, scope and costs while accounting for uncertainty and change, creation of comprehensive action plans and managing their implementation, conducting project risk peer reviews to ensure all risks have been accurately identified and accounted for.

Tailored Approach
At HJA, we recognise that the coordination and execution of high-value, complex commercial transactions - often involving significant infrastructure projects, major procurements, or collaborative agreements between government and private sector entities - do not typically fit within traditional procurement frameworks. Due to their complexity, high risk, or the unique nature of the supply market, they may require the alteration of an existing transaction model to ensure all commercial objectives are aligned and project-specific costs are accurately accounted for. A tailored procurement approach is often necessary to effectively engage with specific industries or markets, especially for one-off construction projects or initiatives that fall outside of routine business activities. At HJA, we believe that successful Transaction Management requires a dedicated team and customised strategies to align the procurement process with the project’s unique risks, market conditions, and commercial objectives.

Focus Areas
Key elements of Transaction Management that are covered and addressed by HJA’s experts include, but are not limited to:

• Delivery model assessment

• Market sounding

• Procurement planning

• Commercial framework development

• Leadership and management of the transaction process

• Interface management

• Data room setup

• Commercial negotiations

• Due diligence

HJA aims to complete transactions on time, within budget, and in line with stakeholder expectations.

Range of Quantity Surveying Services
Including design costs valuation and estimates; contractor vetting; preparation of tender documentation; management of tender process; preparation of cost analysis reports and consideration of alternative options; preparation and review of cost-to-complete reports; assessment of disruption cost claims.

Systems and Software Expertise
HJA’s team has proficiency in various software systems including Excel, forecasting programs such as R-studio, financial platforms such as Xero, and Adobe and Microsoft Suites. We offer training services as well as support in developing budget and project audit reports.

Marketing Consultancy Services
By implementing streamlined marketing processes, quantifiable campaigns and promotions, and having a wide range of social media skills, HJA assists clients in entering specific markets, attracting tender offers and promoting their business.

Stakeholder Relationship Management
HJA facilitates collaboration between internal and external stakeholders by forming strategic alliances between government bodies, regulators, stakeholders and suppliers with a focus on creating long-term, mutually beneficial business partnerships.

Training on Dispute Resolution and Avoidance
With the help of HJA’s dedicated Dispute Resolution Team, we offer interactive training programs with regards to dispute avoidance, particularly in the context of commercial construction and infrastructure projects. With 25+ years’ experience, and having provided expert witness/adjudication services for clients on more than 500 disputes across Australia, HJA is uniquely equipped to deliver training on maintaining healthy business relationships in large-scale construction/infrastructure projects, identifying and including ideal/strategic contract clauses, dispute mitigation techniques, and if necessary, the means to achieve cost and time efficient resolution to minimise the negative impacts of conflict. Whether it be through more stringent and purposeful contract administration techniques, the establishment of more effective vetting/progress checking systems, the inclusion of strategic special conditions, and more, our dispute resolution branch offers training of all kinds to assist clients in managing disputes and their avoidance, with the overarching goal of seamless project delivery.

External Training Events
HJA’s directors offer external training seminars, lectures and conferences regarding business best practice in the context of large-scale infrastructure projects across Australia’s many industry sectors. These events provide current, unique and exclusive insights with regards to ensuring the success and efficient completion of projects, with particular focus on the energy and mining industries, which are expected to boom in the face of the global race to net zero: demanding 100% renewable grids as well as critical minerals extraction for use in batteries and other ‘clean’ goods. The content of the seminars will draw on the past experience of our experts in successfully delivering multi-billion AUD$ projects such as the GLNG Plant and Port, or the South Flank Mine, while tailoring context-specific solutions to drive future outcomes. Example topics include: QLD Government compliance around ethical tendering; Queensland procurement policies and how they apply to Local & Indigenous – LEPP & PIP; Contract Management 101; How to actively deal with conflicts of interest; Interpretations and implications of the Building Industry Fairness (Security of Payment) Act; Productivity in construction; and much more.

In-House Training Services
Our consultants and experts can be brought in-house by clients to lead and train teams across a wide variety of areas. This includes but is not limited to: developing ideal procurement strategies, establishing streamlined Owner-Contractor communication systems, developing effective project progression checks and enforcement processes, mitigating contractual risk, ensuring compliance with the Australian Industry Participation (AIP) National Procurement Framework and much more.