Infrastructure Advisory Services

Transforming System Complexity into Success

About our services

Who we serve

What makes us different

Transforming Complexity into Successful Delivery

As projects become ever more complex, NSI has capabilities to assure optimized integration and delivery. We will deploy best-in-class processes and recognized discipline experts on your project. As your trusted advisor, NSI provides proven, practical techniques from early concept, project formation and contract preparation through the entire delivery lifecycle and beyond, including commissioning, operations, maintenance and lifecycle asset management.

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Concept

Initial planning and feasibility

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Develop

Design and engineering

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Produce

Construction and delivery

4

Utilize

Operations and performance

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Support

Maintenance and optimization

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Retire

End-of-life planning

Infrastructure that connects, empowers, and endures.

About our Infrastructure Services

NSI brings decades of experience on rail, aviation, highway, and other major infrastructure projects and programs. Our team offers specialized expertise in quality management, systems integration, risk governance, requirements management, process improvement, and strategic planning.

We are a multidisciplinary group of professionals united by a shared commitment to help clients achieve successful high-quality outcomes.

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Suspension
Crane
Railway
High Speed Rail
Large Crane

Planning

Leading early development to provide the best possible foundation.

  • Capital Works Budget Planning and Decision Analysis
  • Project Design and Acquisition Process support
  • Strategic Infrastructure Planning
  • Feasibility Studies and Risk Assessment

Management

Providing leadership to ensure the right outcomes.

  • Quality Management
  • Risk Management
  • Business Process Analysis and Optimization
  • Information and Configuration Management

Systems Assurance

Ensuring seamless delivery and assurance across complex systems.

  • Systems Integration Management
  • Needs and Requirements Management
  • Systems Safety, Certification and Assurance
  • Reliability and Availability Engineering

Sustain and Improve

Optimizing day-to-day activities for maximum efficiency.

  • Human Factors Engineering
  • Maintenance Engineering and Asset Management
  • Operations Planning and Analysis

Who We Serve

We have worked across all areas of infrastructure, for both clients and contractors, from project concept through design, construction, completion, and operation. Our work has ranged from multi billion-dollar transit megaprojects to parking garages.

Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART)

  • Silicon Valley Phase II Oversight Project
  • Train Control Modernization Project
  • Link21/New Transbay Rail Crossing

LA Metro

  • Rosecrans/Marquardt Grade Separation Project
  • Lone Hill to CP White Double Track PE Project
  • Quality Management Consultant Project

Sound Transit

  • Lynnwood Link Extension Project
  • Downtown Redmond Link Extension Project
  • Operations and Maintenance Facility South
  • Puyallup Station Access Improvements Project
  • West Seattle Link Extension Civil EDS Project

California High-Speed Rail Program

  • SF-SJ and SJ-MCD Engineering/Enviro. Project
  • CP4 Project & Construction Mgt. (PCM) Project
  • Merced-Madera Advance Design Project
  • Rail Systems Engineering Services Project
  • Track and OCS Project

Orange County Transportation Authority (OCTA)

  • Tustin/Rose Grade Separation Project

San Diego Association of Governments (SANDAG)

  • Otay Mesa East Port of Entry Project

San Bernardino County Transportation Authority (SBCTA)

  • Mount Vernon Viaduct PCM Project

What Makes Us Different

  • Our ability to actively listen, reflect, and respond with precision to client needs
  • Our passion for lean, efficient, processes and execution
  • Our expertise at writing and analyzing both Business and Technical Requirements
  • Our total quality ethic in all things we do
  • Our practical approach to systems integration backed by decades of experience across hundreds of projects
  • Our capability to apply critical thinking to all tasks
  • Our agility in response to rapidly changing program or product environments

How We Build Strong Teams

  • Improving team culture and leadership skills to engage staff in working together to achieve company and project goals
  • Helping teams understand, document, measure, and improve their own processes to increase quality and productivity
  • Repeatedly delivering work on time and on budget
Simon Hughes
NSI Advisory Services

Simon Hughes

Director, Infrastructure
Simon.Hughes@NSIeng.com Direct: 916-936-7058 Office: 408-288-8200