SNC Lavalin, a leading infrastructure and project management company, has launched its new smart investment planning approach aimed at helping the customers achieve desired service levels at the lowest level of cost.

It will help clients stay ahead of the curve when considering capital investment needs, said a statement from SNC Lavalin.

Smart Investment Planning provides an evidence based investment projection that is compelling to the executive and valuable for managers, ensuring the right level of investment is delivered on the right assets at the right time, it stated.

It is a quick way to establish a view of lifecycle investment demand and enables better decision making aligned to business drivers, it added.

SNC Lavalin's Smart Investment Planning system offers plenty of benefits, allowing clients to do more with less like Understanding capital investment needs with limited data; Achieving desired service levels at lowest level of cost; Balancing investment decisions, when funding is constrained; Efficient and targeted deployment of valuable resources; Improved work planning and productivity; Optimising Totex expenditures over long-term and Minimising time to value for business and end users.

The Canadian group's Smart Investment Planning approach addresses several challenges commonly faced by organisations with large dispersed portfolios, such as insufficient budget for full bottom up condition surveys, competing and changing business drivers, insufficient time to build a robust capital plan and lack of visibility of medium to long term investment liabilities, said the company in a statement.

Clients can benefit from the wealth of knowledge that has authored several industry standards (ISO 55000, NRM3, BS8544 & BIM), it stated.

Throughout the Smart Investment Planning process, effort is made to harness existing data and target surveying towards high risk assets or functions.

This investment approach provides a highly efficient and agile methodology to capital investment planning that can be modified to reflect an organisation’s maturity, it added.-TradeArabia News Service