Client Relationships
History

When you need more than just 'Project Management'

Every decision on infrastructure, property and business investment today has to focus on managing the risk; 'is this the right project for our company, right now?'

At McLachlan Lister, we've got 35 years invested in knowing what project strategy is going to provide the optimum outcome for our clients.

We listen to you and then marry what you tell us about your goals and business strategies with our wealth of experience in major projects and process development, to help you achieve them.

Our systems and processes are quality driven. Each project is directed by our senior personnel, and our directors actively participate in our assignments - we do not believe in winning an assignment and then handing it off to 'juniors' for delivery.

We're more than Project Management specialists - that's just the practical outcome of our ability to help you develop and refine your business and investment strategy. We've got best practice procedures, methodologies and systems to make sure you get a result that's technically superior and cost effective.

Client Relationships - A partnership approach with our clients

Long-term client relationships are critical to our success, and all of us take an active interest in your wider business goals and objectives.

Clients engage us in many ways. In recent times this has included providing a complete project management service, relieving our client of involvement in routine matters. It has meant providing staff to supplement a client’s own resources, working together as one team.

In other instances we have provided our clients with specialist advisory services such as project auditing or due diligence assessments.

We’ve also undertaken discrete management tasks such as providing representation on steering committees.

Our breadth of expertise enables us to act with confidence in matters vital to your organisation’s well being– because we understand the issues you face.

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History

McLachlan Lister traces its history back to 1973, when Alex McLachlan founded McLachlan Investments Pty Limited as the first significant firm of management consultants in Australia that specialised in capital works projects.

"McLachlan's" became the largest firm of its kind, and was a pioneer of much of the project management industry now in existence today. Over a period of 30 years, the company acted for clients on over 2,000 projects with a combined capital value in excess of $30 billion.

Alex McLachlan and Russell Lister established McLachlan Lister in 1998, with the objective of providing an independent voice for clients involved in major property and infrastructure projects and assets.

While the company has a long track record of involvement with some of Australia's largest property projects, it works closely with clients and projects of all sizes and nature - from small non-profit organisations to government departments, and some of Australia's largest property developers to boutique firms.

The Company continues to grow, and has now played a leading role on projects with a combined value in excess of $15 billion.

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