Remote & Offshore Operations.

Remote scope starts with the destination. Shipping schedule and freight cost. Accommodation availability. Local safety regulations and inductions. Crew rotation if the work runs longer than one mobilisation. Customs requirements for equipment and consumables. We document all of that before the price goes back, because it's the planning that drives the cost on remote work, not the labour.

Yes — mobilisation is part of every remote engagement we run. Equipment and material schedules are produced against the freight calendar, not just the program. Where the work depends on shipping windows that only open monthly, we mobilise stock against that constraint. Site setup, accommodation booking, and on-site safety are coordinated end-to-end, so the team turns up to a working site, not a starting line.

Ascension Island for telecommunications and critical power infrastructure. Norfolk Island and Papua New Guinea for telecommunications work. Multiple regional-Queensland critical power and electrical projects. Plus Sunshine Coast and remote South East Queensland work that, while domestic, still needs the same logistics rigour to deliver properly.

Both, depending on the project. Where a remote site has a viable local labour market and the work suits it, using local trades reduces cost and supports the host community. For specialist work — critical power commissioning, telecommunications integration — we typically mobilise our own team, who carry the project knowledge and the relationships with the equipment vendors back home.

Site-specific risk assessment, RAMS, the daily SWMS process and on-site safety oversight are managed by our project team. For locations with their own safety regulator (offshore platforms, defence sites, industrial host operators), we work to the host's safety system as well — there's no daylight between our standard and theirs, and the documentation is produced to whichever is more demanding.

Remote projects are priced as a single package — labour, freight, accommodation, mobilisation and demobilisation, equipment, consumables, contingency. Discrete line items make the cost transparent. We don't run remote projects on hourly rates because that creates a perverse incentive to drag the program; lump-sum pricing aligns the contract with delivering on time.