Infrastructure Project Management

Planning & Scheduling

We are very successful at delivering contentious infrastructure consents for large-scale infrastructure projects. Our planning and scheduling services ensure your delivery strategy adapts where timelines, project specifications or risks arise, while also managing all operational activities throughout your project life cycle. 

Stakeholder Management

Regular, open communication with key stakeholders such as government agencies, planning authorities, environmental groups and community groups is essential throughout the project. 

Often the lead consultant on large scale infrastructure schemes, we have addressed the diverse needs of multiple stakeholders and have project managed large teams of different environmental consultants for solar farms, wind farms, battery energy storage projects, EV charging networks and electricity grid infrastructure projects across Ireland and the UK.

Risk Management

A variety of factors may affect the risk level of infrastructure projects, including their complexity, location, and environmental conditions.

We identify these potential risks, implement appropriate risk management strategies, and monitor and adapt to changing circumstances continuously to advance the successful outcome for your development proposal.

Project Communication

Having a dedicated team with extensive planning, ecology, landscape and technical services expertise means we always have full oversight of your project.

We’re with you every step of the way, with weekly online client meetings and online project trackers to always give you full visibility of your project’s status. You also have expert advice and guidance where difficult decisions need to be made.

Legal and Regulatory Compliance

We balance environmental and sustainability concerns with regulatory and compliance requirements of government agencies and statutory bodies. As part of our environmental assessments, we evaluate the technical performance of a project, its economic impact and the social impact that the project will produce to identify possible environmental effects and propose measures to mitigate them.

An important part of this process is getting to know the local communities, local planning authorities and political environments relevant to your project. 

Planning & Scheduling

We are very successful at delivering contentious infrastructure consents for large-scale infrastructure projects. Our planning and scheduling services ensure your delivery strategy adapts where timelines, project specifications or risks arise, while also managing all operational activities throughout your project life cycle. 

Risk Management

A variety of factors may affect the risk level of infrastructure projects, including their complexity, location, and environmental conditions.

We identify these potential risks, implement appropriate risk management strategies, and monitor and adapt to changing circumstances continuously to advance the successful outcome for your development proposal.

Legal and Regulatory Compliance

We balance environmental and sustainability concerns with regulatory and compliance requirements of government agencies and statutory bodies. As part of our environmental assessments, we evaluate the technical performance of a project, its economic impact and the social impact that the project will produce to identify possible environmental effects and propose measures to mitigate them.

An important part of this process is getting to know the local communities, local planning authorities and political environments relevant to your project. 

Stakeholder Management

Regular, open communication with key stakeholders such as government agencies, planning authorities, environmental groups and community groups is essential throughout the project. 

Often the lead consultant on large scale infrastructure schemes, we have addressed the diverse needs of multiple stakeholders and have project managed large teams of different environmental consultants for solar farms, wind farms, battery energy storage projects, EV charging networks and electricity grid infrastructure projects across Ireland and the UK.

Project Communication

Having a dedicated team with extensive planning, ecology, landscape and technical services expertise means we always have full oversight of your project.

We’re with you every step of the way, with weekly online client meetings and online project trackers to always give you full visibility of your project’s status. You also have expert advice and guidance where difficult decisions need to be made.

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FAQs

This section brings together clear, straightforward answers to the queries we hear most often, helping you quickly find the information you need. Whether you’re just getting started or looking for something specific, these FAQs are designed to save you time and point you in the right direction.

Environmental assessments must be programmed from the earliest stage of project development, ideally at feasibility, to ensure survey windows, scoping exercises, and report preparation align with planning application milestones. Late commissioning of ecology surveys, EIA scoping, or LVIA work is one of the most common causes of programme slippage on infrastructure projects. Entrust functions as lead consultant on large-scale schemes, coordinating all environmental workstreams against a master programme to ensure seamless integration with design and planning timelines.

The most significant programme risks include missed ecological survey seasons, late EIA scoping, unresolved planning policy conflicts, third-party objections, land access delays, and regulatory permitting timelines running independently of the planning process. Effective mitigation requires early-stage risk mapping, parallel-tracked workstreams, and a project manager with both planning and environmental expertise. Entrust’s integrated team covers planning, ecology, landscape, technical, and public consultation, providing single-point accountability for risk across the consenting programme.

Environmental compliance can delay delivery through seasonal survey constraints extending pre-application programmes, permitting timelines operating independently of planning, additional information requests from statutory consultees, and post-consent discharge of planning conditions requiring further environmental monitoring or approvals. Identifying compliance obligations early through pre-acquisition environmental due diligence and integrated programme planning is the most effective way to reduce these delays and protect project programme.

On complex infrastructure projects, planning approval depends on the quality, coordination, and coherence of a large volume of technical inputs submitted simultaneously. Integrated project management ensures all technical reports are scoped consistently, prepared to the same standard, cross-referenced correctly, and submitted as a coordinated package. Entrust acts as lead consultant on major schemes, managing multidisciplinary teams, coordinating with planning authorities and statutory consultees, and maintaining programme control from pre-application through to consent.

Yes. In most cases environmental permitting (Environment Agency permits in the UK, EPA licences in Ireland) and planning permission can be progressed in parallel, provided the consenting strategy is carefully coordinated. Parallel-tracking reduces overall programme duration but requires active management to ensure information developed for one process does not conflict with submissions to the other. Entrust advises on consenting strategy and manages both workstreams where required to optimise programme and reduce overall time to construction.

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