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Public Infrastructure and Capital Projects

Building and maintaining America's infrastructure—taking a lifecycle view

United States’ airports, water treatment facilities, bridges, roads, electric grid, and rail have been on government agendas for major improvements, but funding gaps and project inefficiencies continually hinder progress. As funding and financing options become available, government organizations will need to prioritize and find innovative financing approaches, leverage new and smart technologies, and better manage projects.

See how Deloitte Infrastructure & Capital Projects is helping clients respond to the pandemic at our COVID-19 impact portal.

Transportation infrastructure and COVID-19: A moment that matters

The COVID-19 pandemic has caused sharp drops in employment and economic growth and triggered widespread disruption of the economy. This has created unprecedented demand- and supply-side disruptions with serious impacts to households, businesses, and state and local governments. Affected on most fronts, state and local government agencies are facing huge revenue shortfalls, economic slowdown, overstretched health systems, and a concerned workforce.

Transportation Infrastructure and COVID-19

Services for rethinking how government builds infrastructure

Deloitte advises government clients on new techniques to analyze, prioritize, finance, and enable greater visibility into government infrastructure projects to drive improvements in cost, schedule, and delivery quality. Project and portfolio prioritization, program funding, technology, smart infrastructure, and governance and delivery are the major pillars providing a framework to services offered by Deloitte to government organizations.

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Project selection to prioritize and align


Government organizations may leverage decision analytics to more carefully assess project costs and benefits and strategically align with organizational objectives. Our team provides information and assistance with long-term planning by focusing on project feasibility, enhancing return on investment, mitigating risk, and providing leading practices governance procedures.

Learn how public infrastructure prioritization can help you mitigate risk and plan for success
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Innovative financing and procurement


There are several approaches to financing infrastructure projects including Public-Private Partnerships and employing innovative funding sources to close the gap. Deloitte has worked with state, local, and federal agencies to help develop financing strategies and modernize the procurement process so that projects can be delivered more efficiently, leveraging the private sector’s investment capacity and expertise.

Learn more about financing and procurement innovations in Infrastructure Investment
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Plotting a course for improvement


Integrating smart sensors/Internet of Things (IoT) into the built environment provides a new way for the public to interact with infrastructure. It makes the infrastructure more relevant, useful, and popular. Smart city initiatives may also have the benefit of shared revenue models.

Learn more about the applications of smart infrastructure within smart cities.
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Strategic approach to drive confidence


Mega-projects may be risky. Leaders and agencies may be more likely to support projects if there is stronger confidence around delivering those projects. Deloitte takes a strategic and programmatic approach to provide information to clients to help build confidence around the specific elements of project management, including:


  • Investment confidenceMake decisions that strategically align with organizational objectives.
  • Delivery confidenceBuild a suitable structure, systems, and controls to deliver capital projects.
  • Cost & schedule confidenceEffectively plan, manage, and control project cost and schedule.
  • Digital capital projectsHarness abundant data to create insights in digestible and actionable form.
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    Leveraging real-time data to make decisions


    There is so much data, often maintained in separate systems, not to mention the new types of data that is likely to be collected from drones and wearables. Agencies may benefit by the ability to monitor construction risks at the portfolio level and drill down into the project level. This helps project managers turn data into insights to better manage their construction portfolio. Deloitte’s construction analytics solutions analyze real-time data against performance thresholds–assessing trends over time and transforming information into insight, thereby enhancing decision making and improving overall project delivery.

    Learn how construction analytics can be integrated into the management decision making process

    Advancing asset management

    Organizations with large capital asset and facility portfolios often retain maintenance programs with ever-growing budgets and substantial backlogs. Traditionally, these maintenance programs can frequently be reactive to failures or executed at pre-planned time intervals, leading to unplanned shutdowns and inefficient use of resources. Learn how predictive maintenance on government assets can help reduce costs versus time-based strategies, allowing decision makers to re-prioritize available funds.

    BIM in infrastructure projects

    2017 report on business value and benefits of building information modeling (BIM)
    A report published by Dodge Data & Analytics, sponsored by Deloitte, and produced in conjunction with AutoDesk, explores the growing use of BIM in infrastructure projects. Learn more about the benefits of BIM and the positive ROI organizations are realizing.

    Learn more about BIM in infrastructure projects.

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    Liquified natural gas market brief

    Since the COVID-19 outbreak, global gas markets have faced dramatic demand shocks, which have depressed global gas prices and increased the global oversupply of liquified natural gas (LNG). Learn more about how these volatile market movements have challenged the economics of greenfield LNG investments.

    Liquified natural gas market brief

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    Avi Schwartz

    Avi Schwartz

    Principal | Risk & Financial Advisory

    Avi is a Risk & Financial Advisory principal in Deloitte Transactions and Business Analytics LLP and leads the Infrastructure and Capital Projects practice for Government & Public Services. He has mor... More

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