Stonehill — construction strategy for capital owners

26yr

Average partner time in the field

100%

Engagements led by a partner

Recommendations we wouldn't build ourselves

The practice

Capital program strategy

Portfolio sequencing, delivery models, and the go/no-go work boards usually see too late. We do it early, in writing, with the numbers attached.

Owner's advisory

The owner's side is the understaffed side. We build your procurement, contracts, and controls so delivery partners work for the project — not around it.

Project turnaround

When a job is six months late and nobody will say so, we establish the real position, reset the baseline, and name what it takes to finish. Then we stay until it is finished.

Independent review

Constructability, risk, and cost interrogated by people who have built what is being drawn. Before commitment, not after failure.

Survey and site supervision

Control and layout, quantities measured as they are placed, drone survey for progress and as-builts, and full-time supervision on the owner's side of the fence. You get a written record of what was actually built, not what was invoiced.

The firm

Builders first. Consultants second.

We are not a firm of credentials — we are people who have run the work. Roads, utilities, earthworks, containment, river works: everyone here has stood on the job while it was being built. We keep the firm small on purpose: no leverage model, no juniors learning on your program. The person in the room is the person who does the work.

Two excavators and a worker with a GPS rover on a residential utility dig behind a chain-link fence — 08 Aug 2025 · 54.7802°N 127.1573°W · Survey control on a utility dig

From the field Work the partners have run

Rock face drilled out on a grid pattern with a drill rig and excavator, ready for blasting — Rock cut — pattern drilled and loaded for blasting.

Aerial view of a lined landfill cell cut into forest — Containment cell — liner placement and QA.

Aerial view of a crawler crane driving pile beside a live two-lane highway — Road upgrade in town — pile driving with traffic kept live.

Aerial view of mass earthworks and rock fill at a rural site — Mass earthworks — cut-to-fill balance and haul planning.

Excavator placing riprap along a frozen riverbank in winter — Winter bank protection — riprap placed in ice conditions.

Aerial view of a bridge deck concrete pour with a pump truck and orange hoarding in snow — Bridge deck pour — hoarded and heated through winter.

Aerial view of a culvert installation on a live rural highway beside hay fields — Culvert replacement — highway kept open to traffic.

Aerial view of a rebuilt creek channel and rock armour beside a mountain highway in autumn — Debris-flow channel rebuilt alongside the highway.

Most jobs are lost before ground breaks. We get there first.