For Asset Owners & Scheme Funders
You hold the budget. You carry the risk.
The decisions in front of you deserve the right voice in the room.
Independent specialist input for the people funding tunnelling and trenchless schemes — anywhere in the world.
You have a scheme to deliver. The work runs underground. The decisions are big.
Where You're Standing
You've briefed your consultant and asked for options. The route runs underground, the methods are specialist, and the calls made over the next few months will shape cost for years.
Optioneering has to be thorough — consenting demands it. The risk isn't that options get studied. It's that without someone who's actually built this work at the table, the wrong options stay live too long and the buildable ones never get the depth they need. The cost lands in your budget, your programme, and your board papers.
What if you had an independent specialist sitting on your side of the table — someone with decades on the tools, who can tell you in the first conversation which options are real, which need more work, and which can be set aside?
The Shift
That's HarkerWize. Independent of your consultants. Independent of your contractors. Working only for you.
01
Problem definition
Sharpen the brief before the project gathers momentum: clear problem statement, defined constraints, agreed success criteria. The whole team works better when the brief is precise.
02
Option development & refinement
Constructability thinking brought to every option on the table. Buildable ideas get strengthened; weak ones get spotted early, so the strongest options move forward with confidence.
03
Cost confidence for funding
P50, P70, P90 ranges your funders, board or treasury can defend. Backed by Monte Carlo modelling and decades of delivery data.
04
Business case support
Trenchless and tunnelling sections of business cases, written or reviewed for your funding regime — treasury rules, infrastructure commission templates, whichever applies.
05
Consenting & approvals strategy
What regulators, neighbours and stakeholders will scrutinise, and what to address upfront. A clearer path to the approvals you need.
06
Procurement strategy
The right contract model, packaging and risk allocation. Work taken to market in a form that draws strong bidders and sets the project up to succeed.
What We Bring to the Owner's Table
The Owner's Difference
Two ways the next twelve months play out.
Both start from the same decision today. Twelve months on, they're nowhere near each other.
With HarkerWize
The path that climbs.
Without HarkerWize
The path that slides.
How To Start
Talk it through.
One conversation about your scheme and where it's stuck. No charge, no pitch.
Get the honest read.
In plain language: which options are real, which need more work, which to set aside.
Choose how we work.
Retained advisory across schemes, per-project support to a gate or milestone, or a one-off independent review. Scoped to fit. NDA standard.
Where HarkerWize Adds Value
No limit on project type or scale.
HarkerWize works with asset owners and scheme funders on tunnelling and trenchless projects across multiple sectors and jurisdictions.
Three Waters Infrastructure
Wastewater, stormwater, and water supply schemes — interceptors, outfalls, mains renewals, network upgrades. Council asset owners, water utilities, and regional infrastructure agencies.
Energy & Telecommunications
HV cable installations, gas pipelines, fibre and telco networks. Electricity distribution and transmission asset owners, gas utilities, telco infrastructure operators.
Mining & Resources
Access declines, ventilation tunnels, conveyor drifts, ore passes, dewatering schemes. Mine operators and resource sector clients across hard-rock and soft-ground environments.
Transport & Major Infrastructure
Road and rail tunnels, service crossings, utility relocations. Road controlling authorities, rail operators, port authorities, airport operators.
New Zealand-based, globally engaged. Work spans local utility schemes through to multi-kilometre infrastructure tunnels for international clients.
Digital Decision Support
Faster answers, even before you brief a consultant.
The TrenchlessIQ platform gives asset owners decision support in hours, not months. Drop in your alignment, your constraints, your project context — get a method shortlist, indicative cost ranges, risk red flags, and CO₂e comparisons before you spend a dollar on consultant fees.
Whether you're shaping a new infrastructure scheme, working through feasibility, or building the case for funding — start with a conversation. We'll tell you in plain language whether HarkerWize can help, and how.