Stephen Cummins

Background

About Stephen Cummins

A construction sector strategist focused on identifying and resolving commercial challenges. Stephen has a wealth of experience across the built and infrastructure environment delivering many significant projects in Australia and overseas. His expertise is in early phase advisory, helping to define clarity of objectives, outcomes, budgets and delivery pathways. His experience as a Chartered Quantity Surveyor allows Stephen to approach projects using the tenants of cost, value and risk management. Project failure can often be traced back to decisions made prior to commencement. Stephen makes sure the building blocks for success are in place, making sure projects start on the right footing and maximize the chances of success. Stephen is passionate about delivering sustainable projects that minimize their impact on the natural environment. Recognizing that sustainable outcomes must be combined with economic realism, Stephen is able to help identify and unlock the opportunities to create ‘win-win’ outcomes. This includes value managing designs to deliver sustainable outcomes within tight budgets, and to articulate the long-term economic and sustainable benefits through running Whole of Life Cost models. This helps Clients make strategic investment decisions achieving the optimum balance between capital cost investment and ongoing operational and maintenance liabilities.