Built for Capital-Intensive Industries
Mining. Construction. Infrastructure. Three distinct controls challenges — one specialist consultancy.
The Right Controls Framework for Every Sector
Mining, construction, and infrastructure projects each carry sector-specific risks, governance obligations, and delivery challenges. A generic controls approach is rarely sufficient. Targetplan brings sector-specific depth to every engagement.
Mining & Resources
Sector Challenges
Remote locations compress supply chains and inflate logistics costs. Greenfield developments carry significant scope uncertainty through FEED. Capital intensity means early schedule failures translate directly to hundreds of millions in value destruction. Complex procurement chains require interface management across dozens of packages, and regulatory compliance adds a layer of non-negotiable milestone obligations.
Targetplan has worked extensively across Western Australian mining — from sustaining capital programmes at operating mines to greenfield developments in the Pilbara, Goldfields, and Mid-West. We understand the controls demands that major resource projects place on owner teams and how to build frameworks that function in remote, high-pressure environments.
Our controls frameworks for mining projects are built around the reality of the sector: long supply lead times, complex contractor packages, and reporting requirements that satisfy both internal governance and funding body obligations. We provide the independent performance visibility that gives owners confidence — and gives boards the assurance they need to make major capital allocation decisions.
Construction
Sector Challenges
Multi-contractor environments with unresolved interface obligations create programme-wide exposure that individual contractors are rarely incentivised to flag. Scope creep driven by design changes and ambiguous contract documentation erodes cost certainty. Compressed timelines across concurrent work fronts require tight look-ahead scheduling discipline. Subcontractor risk management often receives insufficient attention until it becomes a programme-level problem.
Construction projects fail at the controls layer before they fail on site. Poorly structured schedules, weak cost tracking, and inadequate progress measurement give delivery teams a false picture of performance until variances are too large to absorb.
Targetplan implements baseline schedule governance, earned value tracking, and independent reporting that keeps construction programmes on track — and gives owners early warning when they're not. We work across commercial, industrial, and civil construction programmes of significant scale.
Infrastructure
Sector Challenges
Government-funded infrastructure programmes carry reporting obligations that go beyond standard project controls — funding body milestone requirements, public accountability, and Treasury gateway processes all demand structured, independently verifiable performance data. Long programme durations introduce cost escalation risk and stakeholder management complexity. Public scrutiny raises the consequences of schedule slippage and cost overruns beyond commercial impact to reputational and political exposure.
Infrastructure projects — roads, rail, water, ports, social infrastructure — often carry the most visible accountability obligations of any major capital investment. The controls frameworks that satisfy funding bodies, delivery teams, and the public must be structured, consistent, and genuinely independent.
Targetplan builds controls frameworks that satisfy funding body reporting requirements while giving delivery teams clear performance visibility. Our reporting is designed to support Treasury gateway reviews, independent assurance assessments, and public accountability requirements without creating the reporting overhead that slows programme delivery.
Controls Expertise That Transfers Across Sectors
Many of Australia's major capital projects sit at the intersection of multiple sectors — a mine requires civil and structural construction; an infrastructure programme may include resource processing facilities. Targetplan's controls expertise operates across all three sectors simultaneously.
Mining
Greenfield, brownfield, and sustaining capital — from Pilbara iron ore to goldfields processing plants.
Construction
Commercial, industrial, and civil construction — where interface management and earned value discipline are critical.
Infrastructure
Roads, rail, water, and social infrastructure — where funding body obligations and public accountability shape controls design.
Working in One of These Sectors?
Tell us about your project and the controls challenges you're facing. We'll outline how a Targetplan engagement would address your specific requirements.