Tamworth Regional Council brought OREZ in under a staged Design and Construct contract to take a proposed organics processing facility from concept through to detailed design and a fully costed construction price. Where a generalist contractor builds to a brief, OREZ interrogates it, testing the scope against real feedstock volumes, real infrastructure constraints, and real offtake markets, before a dollar of construction capital is committed.

Project Highlights

Design and Cost Certainty
OREZ carried the project through detailed civil, structural, hydraulic, and anaerobic digestion process design, then ran open book trade pricing on the full scope, giving Council complete visibility of the construction market cost behind every element of the facility.

Full Transparency, No Assumptions
Stage 1 of the contract delivered exactly what it was designed to deliver, a fully engineered facility and a construction price built from real trade pricing, not an estimate. That price reflected genuine movement in the construction market and the complexity of the engineering required, information Council needed before deciding whether to proceed.

Council’s Decision, OREZ’s Design
With the engineering and cost picture complete, Council weighed the fully costed facility against other factors, including feedstock supply commitments from industrial customers and the position of state grant funding, and resolved not to proceed to construction at this time. That decision was Council’s to make. OREZ’s role was to make sure it could be made on complete information, not assumption.

What a Successful ECI Looks Like
Success in Early Contractor Involvement isn’t measured by whether a project reaches construction, it’s measured by whether the client makes that decision with the right information. Tamworth Regional Council got a fully engineered, fully costed answer to work from, because OREZ tested the scope and priced it in the open, before a single dollar was spent on assumption. That’s the standard every OREZ ECI engagement is held to, and it’s why councils, waste operators, and industrial generators bring OREZ in at the Advisory stage, to build the model and stress test it, before a decision gets made on anything less than the full picture.