Industrial precinct at dusk
Services · Strategic industrial circularity

From regional strategy to precinct delivery. One substrate underneath all of it.

The market calls this work net zero industrial precincts, eco-industrial precincts, industrial symbiosis, circular economy hubs. Underneath the labels it is a set of upstream decisions about governance, geometry, tenant mix, and capital sequence that determine whether a regional industrial system compounds or strands. Each service below is a bounded engagement: a defined question, a fixed price, a deliverable that survives scrutiny after we leave the room.

Eight bounded engagements · Fixed lump sum · Government procurement ready
The engagements

Eight ways in. The same substrate underneath every one.

Open the engagement that matches the decision in front of you. Each one names the problem it answers, the work it covers, and what you hold at the end of it.

Who it is forState agencies, regional development commissions, and corridor authorities carrying a regional industrial transition mandate.

The problem

  • Your region has been named in a strategy: a hydrogen hub, a critical minerals corridor, a renewable energy industrial precinct.
  • The announcements arrive as project portfolios; the question they raise is a system one.
  • Nobody holds the answers to what the region's water, energy, land, and logistics can actually carry.
  • The current geometry is quietly foreclosing exchanges nobody has mapped.

What we do

  • Resource flow inventories across the operator base, with verified mass and energy balances.
  • Carrying capacity envelopes across the binding constraints.
  • Cascade exposure mapping across the operator network.
  • Leverage arithmetic showing where a unit of public investment releases multiples of private capital.
  • A sequenced regional strategy rather than an aggregated one, every investment ranked against the system it lands in.

What you get

  • A regional circularity strategy that can be interrogated line by line when treasury asks how the numbers were built.
  • An investment sequence with leverage projections.
  • A Khora instance the region keeps querying after the document is delivered.
Service 01 · Regional circularity strategy

Who it is forTreasury and central agencies, infrastructure and industry departments, funding authorities, and program owners allocating public capital into industrial transition.

The problem

  • Your funding architecture assesses projects one at a time; each business case is defensible and the portfolio still underperforms.
  • The outcomes the program is pursuing depend on coordination across projects that no single proponent owns.
  • Enabling infrastructure gets funded after the projects that need it, or before the demand that justifies it.
  • Public capital clears single-digit leverage while coordination-first sequences run an order of magnitude higher, and the gap never shows on the program's own dashboard.

What we do

  • Portfolio-level assessment reading every business case against the same substrate rather than in isolation.
  • Sequencing analysis that orders enabling infrastructure, common-user assets, and tenant-specific capital so early moves create the conditions later moves require.
  • Leverage arithmetic on where public investment changes conditions on the ground.
  • Funding architecture design where the program cycle itself needs restructuring.
  • Gateway reviews of live business cases against the system model before the money commits.

What you get

  • A capital allocation framework your program can actually administer.
  • An investment sequence with leverage projections and stranded-asset risk priced.
  • Enabling infrastructure priorities backed by demand evidence rather than proponent assertion.
  • Analysis that holds up in estimates, in audit, and in front of the proponents who missed the round.
Service 02 · Government capital allocation

Who it is forCentral agencies, planning bodies, and portfolio departments whose projects, approvals, and capital all land in the same regional industrial systems.

The problem

  • Decisions about the same region sit across departments that report vertically and coordinate horizontally only by meeting.
  • Each agency holds a fragment: infrastructure has the pipeline, environment has the constraints, treasury has the capital, planning has the land. Nobody holds the system.
  • Systemic risks accumulate in the gaps between portfolios; projects that clear individually can be incompatible together.
  • Carrying capacity depletes incrementally across separate approvals, none of which trips a threshold on its own.
  • Every briefing that needs the whole picture gets assembled by hand, from scratch, against a deadline.

What we do

  • Instantiate a single system model across the region: every project, capital commitment, approval, and constraint in one substrate.
  • Configure cross-department views on the same data: treasury sees capital exposure and leverage, planning sees land and admissions, regulators see cumulative load and remaining headroom.
  • Build the systemic risk register: cascade exposures, cross-portfolio incompatibilities, single points of failure, quantified before they bind.
  • Surface systemic efficiencies: shared infrastructure, co-location, and exchange opportunities invisible from inside any one department's dataset.
  • Hold the carrying capacity envelope live, so every proposed project is tested against actual remaining headroom.
  • Design the governance for the shared model, so departments contribute data without surrendering control of it.

What you get

  • A standing cross-department view of projects, capital, risks, and carrying capacity, queried on demand instead of assembled per briefing.
  • A systemic risk register and a systemic efficiency register, held at the centre and updated as the pipeline moves.
  • Cabinet and expenditure review submissions backed by a model every relevant department has already interrogated.
  • An end to duplicated analysis across departments commissioning partial versions of the same study.
Service 03 · Whole-of-system modelling

Who it is forPrecinct proponents, industrial land developers, governing bodies, and agencies establishing net zero industrial precincts, eco-industrial parks, or renewable energy industrial precincts.

The problem

  • Every net zero industrial precinct pitch leads with shared infrastructure; almost none resolve the questions that decide whether it ever materialises.
  • Steam exchange dies beyond roughly two kilometres, water beyond three to five, industrial gas beyond eight to fifteen.
  • Lot sizing, setbacks, and anchor placement are decided years before any symbiosis program is articulated; once the first anchor commits, the viability of every later exchange is set.
  • Precincts designed as land subdivisions with a decarbonisation narrative become standalone tenants on a shared address.

What we do

  • Run eco-industrial precinct design in the order that produces functioning systems: governance instrument first, system model second, capital sequence third.
  • Tenant admission rules grounded in actual carrying capacity.
  • Density and distance analysis with viability envelopes for each candidate exchange.
  • Common-user infrastructure cases with tenancy design.
  • Alignment with the international eco-industrial park framework where certification or investor reporting requires it.

What you get

  • A precinct blueprint that can be presented to a board, a minister, or a funding body and defended under questioning.
  • Governance instruments with legal force, and an admission test the governing body owns.
  • An investment sequence with stranded-asset risk priced.
  • A Khora instance configured to the precinct from day one.
Service 04 · Net zero and eco-industrial precincts

Who it is forLocal government waste and resource recovery managers, precinct owners, shire and city executives.

The problem

  • Your busiest site runs on aged infrastructure with known safety exposures.
  • A processing operation is relocating, a neighbouring site is closing and redirecting its traffic to yours, and population growth compounds underneath both.
  • Commissioning the masterplan now means paying for design before the critical unknowns are resolved: contamination actuals, land constraints, easements through Crown or Aboriginal land.
  • Councils that skip the pathway step buy over-design early and remediation surprises late.

What we do

  • Define the staged pathway: which studies, in what order, and why each one gates the next.
  • Preliminary gap and risk analysis across operational data, site constraints, and regulatory settings.
  • Best-practice review of how comparable councils staged their circular economy facility investigations.
  • Decision gateways that tell your council when to spend and when to defer.
  • Procurement advice on whether later stages go to market as one consultancy or parcels of work, with indicative effort attached.

What you get

  • A planning pathway report with a visual roadmap built for council briefings.
  • A preliminary risk register keyed to the planning sequence rather than construction.
  • RFQ-ready scopes for the stages that follow.
  • A masterplan decision your council makes knowing the cost, the dependencies, and what remains unknown.
Service 05 · Resource recovery precincts

Who it is forState economic development and industry agencies; policy and program leads carrying supply chain, industrial land, or heavy industry decarbonisation strategy.

The problem

  • Heavy industry is re-equipping: electrification, hydrogen production, critical minerals processing, transmission build-out, the purchases the Safeguard Mechanism is forcing onto capital plans.
  • Your strategy documents assume the supply chains for that equipment exist and will deliver on schedule.
  • Nobody has mapped where they concentrate, which single points of failure they route through, or what a constrained port does to the pipeline.

What we do

  • Identify and map the critical supply chains for the technologies and infrastructure the strategy depends on.
  • Assess risks, opportunities, and barriers against recognised supply chain resilience frameworks.
  • Structured engagement across the agencies, utilities, ports, and operators who hold the actual data.
  • Test every supply chain assumption against the carrying capacity envelopes of the precincts, corridors, and ports it routes through. A chain that clears on paper and fails on water headroom is the finding that matters.

What you get

  • Mapped supply chains with risks and barriers attached to specific chain stages.
  • Findings built on verifiable data, capable of withstanding independent external scrutiny.
  • A report written for a government audience that can anchor business cases and survive public release.
  • A briefing your executive can put in front of a minister.
Service 06 · Industrial decarbonisation supply chains

Who it is forState industrial land agencies and divisions activating multiple strategic industrial areas at once.

The problem

  • Industrial areas are being activated across the state simultaneously, with common-user infrastructure, headworks, and tenant pipelines spread across delivery agencies.
  • Funding accountability sits with you; delivery sits elsewhere; visibility travels by spreadsheet.
  • A conventional program office tells you what is late. It cannot tell you what the delay does to the tenant pipeline in another precinct, because it holds a schedule, not a system.

What we do

  • Stand up an integrated program office inside your division, with complete separation from anyone's business-as-usual interests.
  • Governance across funding sources and tracking of funded works.
  • Coordination across the agencies who build what you fund.
  • Every funded work tracked against the system model, so a delayed substation reads as what it is: a binding constraint on the next three tenant admissions, quantified before the minister's office asks.

What you get

  • A functioning PMO with funding governance that survives audit.
  • Reporting that treasury and the minister's office both accept.
  • A live view of what each slippage costs the pipeline rather than the schedule.
Service 07 · Strategic industrial areas

Who it is forRegional strategy coordinators inside development commissions, industrial symbiosis program managers inside state commerce departments, cluster and industry council executives.

The problem

  • These roles carry a system-scale mandate on a two-or-three-person team.
  • A Coordinator Regional Strategy at a WA development commission holds investment attraction, precinct activation, grant pipelines, and cross-agency alignment for an entire region.
  • A program manager running Washington State's Industrial Symbiosis Program holds grant rounds that need prioritisation logic and outcomes that need quantifying.
  • The mandate assumes an analytical substrate the role has never been given, which is why symbiosis programs worldwide report activity while Kalundborg, which measures realised exchanges, gets the reputation.

What we do

  • Operate as the bench behind the role, structured as a retainer or per grant round, sized to a program budget rather than a capital one.
  • Resource flow inventories across the operator base.
  • Exchange opportunity surfacing.
  • Grant and project prioritisation run against the system model rather than application quality.
  • A measurement architecture that quantifies realised exchanges, so the program reports outcomes instead of workshops held.

What you get

  • A substrate your program queries on demand.
  • Prioritisation you can defend to applicants who missed out.
  • Quantified outcomes for the annual report.
  • A program that can defend its next budget line with numbers.
Service 08 · Industrial symbiosis programs
Who holds these decisions

Built for the people who hold these roles.

If your title is on this list, one of the services above was scoped with your desk in mind.

Service 02

Deputy secretary or program owner, treasury, infrastructure, or industry portfolio

Service 02 puts a system under your capital allocation before the next funding round locks it.

Service 03

Central agency or cross-portfolio coordination lead

Service 03 gives every department one model of the projects, capital, risks, and carrying capacity they are separately deciding on.

Service 08 · Service 01

Coordinator Regional Strategy, regional development commission (South West WA)

Service 08 is your bench; Service 01 is the regional strategy your investment attraction case is missing.

Service 08

Industrial Symbiosis Program lead, Washington State Department of Commerce

Service 08 gives your grant rounds prioritisation logic and your program a measurement architecture.

Service 04

Net zero industrial precinct or eco-industrial park proponent

Service 04 resolves the governance and geometry questions before the first anchor tenant locks them.

Service 07 · Service 06

Program director, strategic industrial areas division, state government

Service 07 is the PMO; Service 06 maps the supply chains your precinct pipeline assumes.

Service 05

Waste and resource recovery services manager, local government

Service 05 gets you to a defensible masterplan decision without buying the masterplan first.

Service 08

Executive officer, industry council or cluster board

Service 08 turns your member base into a measured exchange network.

Commercial terms

Scoped the way you buy.

Each engagement is scoped so a single procurement covers a decision rather than an open-ended program.

Contracting

Fixed lump sum, milestone payments, AS 4122 or state general conditions, insurances held at government thresholds.

Panels and portals

We respond through Tenders WA, VendorPanel, NSW and NT quotation frameworks, and US state procurement processes.

Scope discipline

Every engagement resolves a defined question and closes, so the deliverable can be tested against the decision it was bought to inform.

Before you go to market

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Tell us which of the eight fits the decision in front of you, or describe the decision and we will tell you which one it is.

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Perth, Western Australia
Working with industrial precincts and regional corridors worldwide