Consulting & Engineering
Studies and options appraisal
Technical and economic investigations for investment, renewal, procurement and strategic system decisions.
Does this match your situation?
Keep running, renew or replace?
OSK-Consult delivers more than calculations: a traceable basis for decisions, with assumptions, risks, sensitivities and courses of action.
- Which option makes sense over the whole life?
- When does renewal beat continued operation?
- Which assumptions drive the result most strongly?
Scope of services
What OSK-Consult takes on.
The individual elements are agreed to suit the question at hand.
- Feasibility studies and option appraisals
- Technical and economic option comparisons
- Whole-life cost (LCC) and reliability, availability and maintainability (RAM) analyses
- Renewal and maintenance strategies
- Assessment of remaining useful life and investment options
- Risk, sensitivity and prioritisation analyses
- Concise technical summaries for boards and committees
Working together
From the question to the findings.
Agree the question
Set the objective of the decision, the options and the assessment criteria.
Carry out the work
Investigate technical feasibility, whole-life cost or commercial performance.
Explain the findings
Bring the results and the material uncertainties together into a decision-ready appraisal.
A study develops and compares options. To test a submission that already exists, OSK-Consult offers technical due diligence.
Technical context
Your contact
Hands-on railway experience and work on national and international projects form the background to the technical judgement.
Career and networkThe first step
Tell us what you are dealing with.
Name the decision, the options you know of and the asset data available. Objectives, programme and operational requirements help cut the investigation to size.