Capital Projects & Infrastructure

Capital Projects & Infrastructure

ERM helps organizations shape, permit, construct and operate sustainable and investable capital projects and infrastructure assets. Across the infrastructure lifecycle, we identify and manage risks and streamline processes by aligning with international standards, investor requirements and stakeholder expectations on ESG.

Meeting demand for ESG-aligned capital projects and infrastructure

Achieving energy transition and renewable energy goals will drive unprecedented demand for sustainable capital projects and infrastructure assets. Considerable investment will be needed, which must be carefully aligned with sustainable finance standards and requirements.

Delivering increasingly complex capital projects means navigating ESG demands from societal, regulatory and investor stakeholders. In addition, developers need to plan for unforeseen challenges which can give rise to delays and costly disruptions.

Successful capital project and infrastructure development requires a programmatic mindset to actively shape projects that will meet regulatory, financial and societal expectations and protect and enhance corporate reputation.

Strategic alignment and effective collaboration between internal teams and external stakeholders is critical to enable the timely identification and management of factors that could derail or jeopardize project delivery.

Secure funding, avoid delays and deliver resilient capital projects and infrastructure assets by proactively managing ESG risks and critical success factors.

Meet investment and funding demands

We help project sponsors and investors shape projects to meet financial institution and regulator expectations, leveraging our expertise and experience of international lending requirements, sustainable finance needs, and regional government funding opportunities.

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Deliver successful and sustainable capital projects

ERM takes an interconnected and programmatic approach to capital project and infrastructure development and delivery. We work with clients to embed ESG considerations into decision-making at every stage of the lifecycle, which helps to simplify processes, such as securing permits, accessing sustainable finance and maintaining social license to operate.

Enhance engagement for social acceptance

Transparent and collaborative two-way engagement with stakeholders and communities is key to achieve regulatory and social acceptance for a capital project. ERM’s teams of stakeholder engagement experts design engagement programs that help build trust and enhance outcomes.

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Enable safe, sustainable construction and operations

From providing advice on obtaining and maintaining permits to simplifying the process for developing operational management systems, ERM assists clients at all project stages. We provide a seamless handover in our support through project design, permitting, construction, operations and closure.

Our approach

Future-proof capital projects and infrastructure with ERM

Impact assessment and permitting​

Stakeholder and community engagement

Political and stakeholder risk advisory

Responsible investment strategy, processes and systems​

Portfolio mapping and hotspot screening​

ESG studies, reporting and independent sustainable finance assurance

Environmental and social management systems

Lender due diligence and loan covenants

New market investment and M&A​

ESG leadership capacity building

Outcomes

Reduce risks and costs

Unlock financial opportunities

Future-proof assets

Earn social acceptance

Our partnerships

ERM has an ever-expanding ecosystem of partners across each key area of the sustainability value chain, enabling us to meet our clients’ evolving needs and scale our impact.

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ERM in numbers

Our experience and insights are cross-industry and on a global scale

23,000

projects worked on in FY23

8,000+

employees in 40+ countries globally

152

countries where we worked on projects in 2023

3,000+

clients across all industries

Insights

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Report

Renewables Conundrums - Renewable(s) Resilience: Four steps to bolster renewable energy supply chains

By Andrew Angle , Todd Hall , Christopher Hope

05 December 2023
Article

Partnering with communities in data center development

By Zoe Mullard , Alexandra Guaqueta , Alison Drury

17 January 2024
Projects

How we've helped global businesses from vision to implementation

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Transport
Case study Europe

The size and scale of the assessment and resulting Environmental Statement (ES) for Phase One of HS2, which runs for a distance of approximately 143 miles (230 km) between London and the West Midlands, was unprecedented in Europe as the largest and most detailed of its kind.
Oil & Gas
Case study Latin America

ERM has continued to serve as ExxonMobil’s lead environmental and social consultancy, working alongside Guyanese environmental companies and local experts, for subsequent Guyana offshore developments.
Manufacturing & Pharmaceutical
Case study Asia Pacific

Conduct a comprehensive environmental impact assessment for three proposed LPG trains at a complex in Algeria for IHI Corporation.

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