TrenchlessIQ — Decision Support for Tunnelling & Trenchless Projects
Every trenchless project starts with the same expensive problem.
Without early clarity on method, cost, and risk, projects lose momentum. More studies are commissioned, decisions are delayed, and valuable time starts to disappear.
Too many trenchless projects start without the numbers that matter.
The Problem
A project lands on your desk. You need to know which method will work, what it will realistically cost, how long it will take, and what the ground risks are. You have a meeting in two days.
You don't have weeks to commission a feasibility study. You don't have a trenchless specialist on staff. So you make a call based on experience, gut feel, and whatever data you can pull together in an afternoon. Sometimes that's enough. Often it isn't.
The wrong method gets shortlisted. The cost estimate doesn't hold. The funder pushes back. A number that should have taken an afternoon to get right ends up costing months of redesign.
This isn't incompetence. It's what happens when specialist knowledge isn't available at the moment it's needed most.
The trenchless industry needs decision-support tools that puts project knowledge in the hands of every estimator, project manager, and design engineer — on demand, in an afternoon, without a specialist on retainer.
The Specific Need
Trenchless IQ. Forty years of delivery experience, packaged for you.
The Solution
Drop in your project parameters — alignment, diameter, length, ground conditions, purpose, constraints and get back a method shortlist, risk snapshot, cost bands, CO₂e estimates, and probabilistic programme outputs in an afternoon. Not in a week. Not after a study. In an afternoon.
PLANNER
Method shortlist, risk, cost, CO₂e — in an afternoon.
MONTE CARLO
P10 / P50 / P90 numbers funders accept.
Built by someone who has actually delivered the work. Designed for the people who need the numbers now.
PRODUCT 01 · TRENCHLESS IQ PLANNER
Early-stage method selection in an afternoon, not a fortnight.
Drop in your alignment and a light project brief. Planner screens trenchless methods against your project parameters and returns:
A shortlist of viable methods, ranked by fit
Construction risk snapshot with key red flags
Indicative cost ranges per option
CO₂e estimates for whole-life carbon comparison
Side-by-side comparison of alternative alignments
Before you brief a consultant. Before you commit to a study. In an afternoon.
WHAT IT DOES
WHO IT'S FOR
Owners and design teams making early method calls. Anyone taking a defensible option recommendation to a steering group, board, or G1 gate.
HOW IT'S DELIVERED
Web subscription · TrenchlessIQ platform
Cost and schedule confidence the funder will accept.
PRODUCT 02 · TRENCHLESS IQ MONTE CARLO
Feed your Planner outputs directly into Monte Carlo. It runs a probabilistic simulation across 50,000 iterations and returns P10, P50, and P90 numbers for both cost and schedule — with the working shown.
The output is designed to defend baselines. Under audit. Under business-case review. Under contract drafting scrutiny.
WHAT IT DOES
Owners going to funder approval. Cost engineers building tender estimates. Anyone who needs a range with confidence intervals, not a single point estimate that unravels at the first question.
WHO IT'S FOR
HOW IT'S DELIVERED
Web subscription · Flows from PlannerThe Difference It Makes
Two ways the next project plays out.
Built for anyone who needs trenchless numbers before the consultant does.
Who Uses TrenchlessIQ
Estimators & Cost Planners
Get defensible cost ranges for tunnelling and trenchless items without building a specialist spreadsheet from scratch. Traceable build-up, exportable to PDF.
Project Managers & Programme Leads
Run Monte Carlo simulations on cost and duration. Know your P10, P50, and P90 outcomes before you commit to a programme or present to a board.
Asset Owners & Scheme Funders
Get independent, data-backed numbers for business case preparation — before briefing a consultant. Faster approvals, fewer surprises.
Design Engineers & Feasibility Teams
Screen methods early, flag constructability risks before design locks, and quantify carbon as part of the option comparison — not as an afterthought.
Beyond the Apps
For live projects, we go further.
Trenchless IQ Planner and Monte Carlo give your team self-serve answers on demand. Method selection. Cost ranges. Risk snapshots. Probabilistic numbers your funder will accept.
But once a project moves into delivery, the questions change. They get specific. They reference drawings, GIs, GBRs, and memos that live in your SharePoint — or worse, in one person's head.
That's where ProjectIQ comes in. Not a subscription. A configured project resource, built by HarkerWize, accessed inside your team's Microsoft Teams.
PRODUCT 03 · PROJECT IQ
Your project knowledge — at your team's fingertips.
AI-Enabled Project Platform
Your project files — drawings, GIs, GBRs, memos, risk registers
Trenchless and tunnelling industry resources
Geotechnical and risk management guidance
Equipment, method, and material specifications
WorkSafe HHU and compliance documentation
Every answer is project-relevant, sourced, and traceable back to the document it came from. Stop hunting through SharePoint. Stop chasing the one person who knows. Start finding.
Project IQ is a dedicated portal we set up for your project. It draws exclusively from verified project data and trusted industry sources — and it lives inside the Microsoft Teams environment your team already uses.
We curate the source material. We configure the platform. Your team asks the questions.
WHAT IT DOES
WHAT IT COVERS
WHO IT'S FOR
Project teams in delivery who need fast, secure, defensible answers — without losing time to information hunts or single-point-of-failure dependencies on the one team member who has read everything.
HOW IT'S DELIVERED
Configured per project · Hosted inside your Teams · Engaged through HarkerWizeTHE PRODUCTS COMPLEMENT THE CONSULTING
The TrenchlessIQ apps narrow options. They don't make the call.
Trenchless IQ gives your team the numbers — method shortlists, cost ranges, probabilistic outputs. Project IQ gives your team the answers buried in your project files. Both are designed to take the routine work so it lands on your desk faster. But specialist judgement still matters. When the question is which alignment will actually work under that road, whether the contractor's claim has merit, or what to tell the funder when the ground proves worse than the GBR — that's where forty years of HarkerWize experience earns its fee.The tools sharpen the question. HarkerWize answers it. See Services →Ready to See What It Does?
Get your first project answer in an afternoon.
Whether you're scoping a new scheme, building a business case, or just need defensible numbers before the next meeting — TrenchlessIQ gives you the answers without the wait.
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