Water treatment plant upgrade
Took over a job running nine months late. Rebaselined the schedule and closed out 140 open change orders.
- Client
- Municipal utility
- Role
- Project recovery
- Value
- $85M
We get infrastructure built.
Obvert is an Ontario infrastructure and construction consultancy. We manage delivery for owners of water, transit, road and municipal projects across the GTA, from the business case through to handover.
What we do
Most clients start with one of these. Some hand us the whole job.
Project delivery
We sit on the owner's side. Day to day we run the project and hold designers and contractors to what they signed. If a job has already slipped, we come in to recover it.
- Project management
- Owner's representation
- PMO
- Project recovery
Construction and contract support
Contract administration happens on site, so that's where our people work. We review submittals, RFIs and change orders, and coordinate the trades.
- Construction administration
- Site services
- Construction coordination
Project controls and commercial
We build the schedule, track cost and keep the risk register current. The monthly report is written in plain language for a board or council.
- Scheduling
- Cost management
- Change management
- Risk
- Reporting
Design and digital delivery
We coordinate the design team and keep the model and the drawing set honest, so what gets issued for construction can actually be built.
- Design coordination
- CAD
- BIM
- Document production
Commissioning and turnover
A built facility still has to be proven and handed over. We plan commissioning early and run the turnover so operations can take the asset on.
- Commissioning
- Project readiness
- Closeout
Procurement and pursuits
We help owners write and run procurements, and help contractors and consultants respond to them.
- RFPs
- Tender support
- Bid management
- Capture strategy
Recent work
A sample of the projects we have delivered or recovered.
Regional bridge rehabilitation
Represented the owner through design, tender and a two-season construction window with lane closures.
- Client
- Regional municipality
- Role
- Owner's representative
- Value
- $32M
Transit station expansion
Set up cost and schedule controls for a live station, with work staged around service hours.
- Client
- Transit agency
- Role
- Project controls
- Value
- $210M
About Obvert
Obvert Consulting is an Ontario infrastructure and construction consultancy. We work for owners, alongside contractors and inside consulting teams, mostly on water, wastewater and municipal projects.
To obvert is to turn something so that it faces forward, or to present another side to view. Most of what we get asked to do amounts to that: looking at a project from a side nobody has been looking from, and saying what we see while there is still time to act on it.
- Based in TorontoMost of our projects are in the GTA
- Water, wastewater and municipalPlus complex multidisciplinary programmes
- Owners, contractors and consultantsWe take whichever seat the project needs
Where we work
Home turf is the Greater Toronto Area: the City of Toronto plus Peel, York, Durham and Halton regions. That's where most of our projects are, and where we can be on site at short notice.
We also take on work elsewhere in Southern Ontario. For the right project we'll go further, within Ontario or across Canada.
- Toronto and the GTAToronto, Peel, York, Durham, Halton
- Southern OntarioSelected projects
- Ontario and CanadaBy arrangement
Tell us about your project
Send a few lines on where things stand and what you need, and we'll set up a call.
Email info@obvert.caOffice
Toronto, Ontario
Toronto, Ontario