BURK & COMPANY

We offer engineering and construction management to business owners, corporations, educational institutions, and government clients. We work with government departments and agencies globally to understand how public sector organizations can build new capabilities, continuously improve performance, and deliver services to society. We help clients determine what to build, how to build it quickly and cost-efficiently, and how to invest in and enhance the value of their infrastructure. We help our clients identify the strongest possible starting points for their large projects by establishing a tailored procurement strategy, structuring contract-award negotiations to realize early savings. We help decision makers balance economic development with the need to create sustainable cities in which to live, work, and vacation.

We have produced an exceptionally diverse portfolio of work­—in scale, program, purpose, and expression. We have led projects in a variety of responsibility roles, including Integrated Project Delivery, Design-Build Contracting, and Construction Management. Over the course of more than seven-hundred client projects, we have developed tools and solutions to address a wide range of program and project management topics. We bring to our clients engineering and construction expertise, deep industry knowledge, a business network cultivated for nearly fifty years, and a focus on building institutional capabilities. Our network includes more than three-hundred consultants with advanced degrees and diverse backgrounds.

We work with a diverse set of banking and nonbanking financial companies, including securities firms, property and casualty insurers, and consumer finance and mortgage lenders. Our delivery approach to supporting clients is customized and collaborative, and combines deep industry expertise and experience with proprietary quantitative analytics and research. We use our unique market insight and industry know-how to provide custom business advisory services that deliver high-impact results aligned with our clients’ key strategic goals. Our deep domain expertise and exclusive access to industry data allow us to tailor our analytics to best serve specific business needs with the right data and guidance.

We work with original equipment manufacturers and suppliers throughout all sectors of the automotive and automotive assembly industries. Our clients include passenger car and light truck manufacturers, truck makers, and agricultural and construction equipment companies. Our work involves strategic planning and corporate finance topics ranging from product development and risk management to autonomous research. We focus on operational topics such as project management, lean manufacturing, and production to supplier cost reduction management.

We help transit authorities create lasting value in a changing mobility market by optimizing routes, timetables, customer service tracking, and lean maintenance concepts. We also apply digital workforce management and transform operations to achieve new levels of customer satisfaction and financial efficiency. We identify paths to sustainable performance and evaluate factors such as decarbonization and options in alternative fuels. We use proprietary tools to yield returns by testing, refining, and optimizing business plans. We work with global leaders on revenue management and provide advisory services to customers regarding private equity, portfolio optimization, tourism policy, economic development, and strategy.

We help clients stay ahead of technology trends, acquire intellectual property, and manage time-to-market challenges. We help clients capture growth opportunities in the electronics supply chain while strategically managing their costs and their production footprints. We help clients reduce costs, run efficient manufacturing plants, and develop sharp go-to-market strategies. Our proprietary tools and digital and advanced analytics capabilities, combined with extensive experience are the cornerstones of the value we bring to our clients.

We help national healthcare systems fundamentally improve health outcomes and work with our clients to expand access to healthcare services, allocate key resources effectively, and deliver better patient experiences. We help clients create value by identifying organizational growth options, achieving operational excellence, and participating in the regulatory and legislative processes. We bring unparalleled insights across industries, geographies, and functional areas, which allows us to offer a fundamentally unique approach to program and project management.

We support philanthropic foundations, nonprofits, and social sector organizations in driving change through innovation by thinking strategically. We draw on deep expertise from throughout our firm—in economic development, global public health, financial inclusion, environmental sustainability, infrastructure and urban development, and education—to help philanthropic organizations tackle society’s greatest challenges. We help education systems bring about rapid improvements in literacy and numeracy outcomes at the classroom level through our work in diagnostics, strategy, implementation, and transformation of administrative operations. Our teams include former teachers, institutional leaders, and researchers.

We help leading sports leagues transform their organization and fan engagement strategies for unique digital and social media. Our expertise spans media rights, fan development, sponsorship, digital innovation, licensing, and project management. We help hotel and casino operators and owners develop strategies that can evolve to meet shifting demands and focus on building internal processes and capabilities that form more sustainable business models. Our pioneering expertise and global network enable our commercial and retail clients to drive change and flourish in a fast-moving and unpredictable industry.

We help clients implement integrated risk-management solutions and bring a risk–reward perspective to strategic decision-making and day-to-day business operations. Our distinctive structure defines our approach. We share a structured problem-solving approach in which all opinions and options are carefully considered, researched, and analyzed before recommendations are made. We focus on the efficient use of capital to achieve superior investment returns. We carefully evaluate investment opportunities across a range of potential market conditions and advance only those projects that are likely to provide long-term value.

Relationships drive our business, and we are proud of our reputation, which is exemplified by our long-standing relationships with private equity investors and financial institutions. Our partnering approach is transparent, direct, and fully engaged with our leadership, allowing us to execute agreements quickly and effectively. Our partnership model informs our working process. We approach each project as a team, prioritizing good listening, responsive planning and close working relationships. Each partner has a unique background and skill set to contribute to our collective thinking. By sharing our expertise, we expand the scope of our specializations, enabling us to provide a more robust resource for our clients.

We offer variety of contract delivery services, from traditional consulting teams to shareholder management to expert advisors to help our clients succeed. We have assembled a strategic alliance team of consultants with advanced degrees and diverse backgrounds. We work closely with senior expert advisers— external collaborators with decades of industry and academic experience.  Depending on the nature of our engagements, we utilize these and other key partnerships to help solve client problems efficiently and effectively.