Brisbane · Infrastructure Commercial Advisory

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Senior commercial advisory at programme level. Trusted by Tier 1 head contractors and infrastructure principals across Australia's major civil, rail, energy and transport programmes - and by the supply chain operating within them.

30+
Years Tier 1 Experience
MCL
Master of Construction Law
QBCC
Registered Adjudicator
$1.4B+
Programmes Delivered
Director
Roger Newman
Commercial Director · Adjudicator · Mediator · Expert Determiner
QBCC ID J1257750
SOP Legislation
BIF Act 2017
Security of Payment · Queensland infrastructure programmes
Contract Forms
AS4000 · AS2124 · NEC4 · FIDIC · GC21 · Bespoke
All major head contract and subcontract forms
Sectors
Rail · Road · Marine · Energy · Water
QLD, NSW, VIC, SA - public and private sectors
Office
Level 19, 10 Eagle St, Brisbane
connect@ujenga.com.au
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Pre-Contract
2
Start-Up
3
Delivery
4
Health Checks
5
Claim / ADR
6
Resolution
7
Lessons Learned

Programme-level
commercial capability.

uJenga operates where the commercial weight is heaviest - advising Tier 1 head contractors and infrastructure principals on the decisions that define programme outcomes. We also work with the supply chain operating within those programmes, bringing the same senior rigour to every engagement.
Primary Audience
Tier 1 Head Contractors

Senior commercial support at programme level - subcontract risk, supply chain strategy and governance frameworks that protect margin and keep delivery on track. We've led commercial functions at this level. We know what the pressure looks like from the inside.

  • Programme commercial director on-call
  • Subcontract strategy and risk allocation
  • Supply chain commercial governance
  • Tender and bid advisory on major programmes
  • Dispute resolution and adjudication support
  • Commercial systems and team frameworks
Primary Audience
Principals & Government Agencies

Independent commercial advice to infrastructure owners, government agencies and their legal teams - procurement strategy, delivery model selection, contract risk allocation and expert evidence when disputes arise. Trusted to give frank advice, not comfortable advice.

  • Procurement and delivery model advisory
  • Contract strategy and risk allocation
  • Independent commercial review and audit
  • Expert determination (neutral) and adjudication
  • Quantum, delay and entitlement expert evidence
  • Post-project lessons and system improvement
Also Trusted By
Subcontractors, Specialist Contractors & Design Consultants

We operate at the big table — and that experience flows directly to the supply chain. Whether you are a subcontractor managing a disputed payment, a specialist contractor facing a one-sided subcontract, or a design consultant navigating scope creep, uJenga brings the same senior commercial rigour to your engagement.

  • Security of Payment & BIF Act adjudication
  • Contract review and risk identification
  • EOT, variations and entitlement management
  • Commercial management on-call
  • Final account and dispute resolution
  • Governance and compliance frameworks

Twelve capabilities.
One commercial team.

Hands-on commercial support that moves with your project - from bid table to final account, and into the hearing room when it counts.
01

Pre-Execution Contract Analysis

Line-by-line review of NEC3/4, FIDIC, AS series and bespoke subcontracts. We benchmark risk allocation, flag onerous provisions and arm you with a clear-eyed position before you sign.

NEC3/4FIDICAS Series
02

Tender Leadership & Bid Strategy

Bid/no-bid analysis, pricing risk calibration and competitive positioning. We lead or support your tender effort so the commercial case is locked in before the first pour.

Bid/No-BidRisk PricingLOI
03

On-Project Contract Delivery

Embedded contract administration from commencement to close-out - progress claims, notices, programme obligations and day-to-day compliance so nothing slips through the cracks.

AdministrationNoticesClose-Out
04

Scope & Variation Control

Early identification and rigorous documentation of scope changes. We build your variation register, quantify entitlements and drive timely agreement to keep cash flowing.

Variation RegisterEntitlementCash Flow
05

Strategic Risk & Early Warning

Facilitated risk workshops, quantitative modelling and live risk registers that give your leadership team sight of exposure before it becomes a problem on the programme.

Risk WorkshopsQuantitativeEarly Warning
06

Claims Prosecution & Defence

End-to-end claim strategy - entitlement analysis, quantum build-up, narrative drafting and submission management. We prosecute your claims and defend against the other side's.

EntitlementQuantumSubmissions
07

Delay & Programme Analysis

Forensic schedule analysis using time-impact, as-planned vs as-built and windows techniques. Defensible cause-and-effect narratives that stand up to expert scrutiny.

Time-ImpactAs-BuiltSCL Protocol
08

Payment Security & Adjudication

Merit assessment, preparation and prosecution of adjudication applications and responses under the BIF Act. As a registered QBCC adjudicator, we understand what succeeds - and advise you honestly when a claim won't stand up.

BIF Act 2017QBCCAdjudication
09

Commercial Mediation

Accredited mediator services focused on preserving project relationships. Constructive, outcome-driven facilitation that resolves disputes without the cost and delay of formal proceedings.

Accredited MediatorADRFacilitation
10

Project Financial Oversight

Cost-to-complete forecasting, earned value tracking, contract valuations and margin reporting. The financial lens your project needs to protect the bottom line.

Cost-to-CompleteEarned ValueMargin
11

Commercial Governance & Policy

Design and implementation of commercial frameworks, delegation authorities, approval workflows and reporting structures that bring rigour and transparency to your operations.

FrameworksDelegationReporting
12

Capability Building & Upskilling

Practical, workshop-based training in contract administration, claims, SOP legislation and commercial fundamentals - built for the people who run your projects, not the boardroom.

TrainingWorkshopsSOP

Not a law firm. Not a generalist.
A commercial specialist.

We Know the Other Side of the Table

Roger spent decades inside Tier 1 head contractors - leading commercial functions, negotiating principal contracts, and building the very risk frameworks that subcontractors now face. We know exactly how the other side thinks.

Statutory Timelines Are Our Business

Under the BIF Act, missing a date by a day can cost you the claim. We work to the same statutory discipline as the adjudicators - because our director is one. No learning curve, no grey areas on process.

Commercial Advice, Not Legal Opinion

We tell you what the contract means commercially - what the risk is, what it costs, and what you should do about it. Practical, frank, and direct. Not hedged and billed by the six-minute unit.

Senior-Led, Every Engagement

You work directly with Roger Newman - 30+ years of Tier 1 experience, MCL, QBCC adjudicator, accredited mediator and expert determiner. Not junior staff learning on your project.

Built on decades of infrastructure delivery.

30+ Years
Senior Tier 1 infrastructure experience across Queensland and national major programmes
Master of Construction Law
Post-graduate qualification underpinning every legal and commercial analysis we deliver
QBCC Adjudicator
Registered adjudicator under the Building Industry Fairness Act 2017 - ID J1257750
Accredited Mediator
Commercial dispute resolution and mediation services for infrastructure and construction
Expert Determiner
Credentialled expert determination - available as advisor or neutral on complex disputes
$1.4B+ Programmes
Rail, road, marine, energy and building programmes across Queensland and nationally

When and how
you need it.

Our on-call model gives you senior Tier 1 commercial experience, scaled to your situation - from a quiet review to full embedded advisory.

  • 1
    Before You Sign
    Identify and manage risk early. Set up notices and records properly and lock in a clean programme baseline to protect your position from Day 1.
  • 2
    During Delivery
    Monitor contractual performance, surface issues early, and help your team build a strong, documented commercial position - one that supports both delivery and resolution.
  • 3
    When Matters Become Contentious
    Forensic delay analysis, robust quantum, negotiation and adjudication from strategy to submissions. Timely, defensible outcomes.
  • 4
    Build Commercial Capability
    Close out with lessons learned, updated templates and playbooks your team can actually use - to keep improving project to project.
  • Full project lifecycle support, project to project
  • Protect cash flow and margin
  • Avoid signing up to one-sided terms
  • Commercial positions built to Tier 1 evidentiary standards
  • Resolve disputes and keep moving
  • Stronger tenders informed by real Tier 1 contractor behaviour
  • Practical commercial systems your teams can follow
  • Plain-English advice - not hedged, not billed by the unit
We provide commercial guidance and support. We do not provide legal advice. For legal advice, we can connect you with the right people.
uJenga Intelligence
30+ Years
Human Expertise
×
In-House Built
Bespoke AI

The outcome: Senior specialist judgment, operating at AI scale — secured by Microsoft, built specifically for infrastructure commercial work.

Secured by Microsoft.
Built for Construction.

We have built our own in-house AI platform to handle the heavy lifting: finding, cleaning and structuring project data, so our industry specialists spend time where it matters - analysis, advice and outcomes, not collation.

What makes our AI different is not the technology. It is the 30+ years of Tier 1 infrastructure experience baked into how it works. Knowing what data to look for, how to read it in context, and what to do with it - that is the human intelligence that makes the AI powerful. We cover volumes of project data at a scale no manual process can match, but every finding is interpreted and acted on by an experienced specialist, not an algorithm.

The result is faster, deeper commercial analysis - with the judgment to know what it means for your project.

Security You Already Trust
  • Your files stay in Microsoft 365 - stored on SharePoint and accessed via your Microsoft login (SSO)
  • Granular permissions and audit trails remain under our tenant's control
  • All outputs (summaries, chronologies, dashboards, models) written to our secure, access-controlled database
  • Encryption in transit and at rest, role-based access, least-privilege architecture
  • No public model training on your data, ever
  • Outputs shared back directly to your Microsoft workspace
How It Works
Connect
Microsoft login
Prepare
AI structuring and tagging
Analyse
Specialist review
Deliver
Outputs to your workspace

AI Contract Review

Your contract, specification and scope documents are ingested and analysed against our purpose-built construction risk framework - developed from 30+ years of reading these documents on live programmes. The system identifies onerous clauses, risk-allocation imbalances, ambiguous scope boundaries and notice traps across the full document suite, not just the main agreement. Every finding is traceable to the source clause and reviewed by a specialist before it reaches you.

NEC4 AS Series FIDIC Risk Flags Cross-Document

Data Mining & Commercial Hotspot Analysis

We load your project data - correspondence, RFIs, site diaries, variation logs, programme updates and payment records - and run structured AI mining across the full record. Our framework is built around what an experienced commercial specialist looks for: patterns, themes and pressure points that indicate entitlement, delay causation or contractual exposure. Hotspots are ranked by financial significance and entitlement strength, giving you a prioritised view of where to focus effort for the best commercial return.

Correspondence Mining Pattern Recognition Exposure Ranking Entitlement Mapping

Claim Leverage & Preparation Intelligence

Our AI analyses your project record against the contract, programme and specification to identify and structure the strongest grounds for entitlement - delays, disruptions, scope additions and principal-caused events. It surfaces supporting evidence across the document suite, maps the causation chain and drafts preliminary claim narratives grounded in your own project record. Experienced specialist review then shapes the strategy. The volume AI can process in hours would take weeks manually - which means more of your claim record gets examined, not sampled.

Entitlement Analysis Evidence Mapping Causation Chain Narrative Drafting

Monte Carlo Risk Modelling

Our in-house Monte Carlo simulation engine ingests your contract, scope of work and project specifications to build a probabilistic risk model calibrated to your specific project - not a generic template. The risk categories, weightings and drivers are informed by 30+ years of seeing which risks actually materialise on infrastructure programmes and what they cost. The model runs thousands of simulations to quantify cost and programme outcomes, confidence intervals and the commercial sensitivity of each risk. Specialist judgment determines what goes in. The AI handles the computation at a scale and speed no spreadsheet can match.

Monte Carlo Simulation Probabilistic Modelling Cost & Programme Risk Confidence Intervals Spec-Driven

AI eDiscovery - Outlook & Email Intelligence

Some of the most valuable evidence on a construction project never makes it into a formal register. It lives in email inboxes - in the instructions given, the warnings ignored, the approvals granted and the complaints made, often years before a dispute crystallises. Our AI eDiscovery module ingests Outlook PST files and email archives, then searches, tags and structures the correspondence record against your specific claim issues, events and timeframes.

The system surfaces emails that corroborate or undermine positions, identifies key threads, extracts admissions and flags unanswered notices - producing a structured chronology and evidence index that a specialist can work from directly. Email evidence that would take a team weeks to manually review is processed, organised and prioritised in a fraction of the time.

PST File Ingestion Email Archive Search Evidence Chronology Claim Corroboration Notice Identification

Scope Intelligence Module

Contracts, specifications and scope documents carry dozens - sometimes hundreds - of obligations, hold points, witness points, submission requirements and key references that a project team must actively manage. In practice, these are rarely captured systematically at project start-up, and the consequences of missing them can be severe: loss of entitlement, non-compliance, or an undermined claim position.

Our Scope Intelligence module reads the full contract and specification suite and produces a structured obligations register: every obligation identified, categorised, cross-referenced to its source clause and mapped to the relevant project phase. Hold points and witness points are extracted and scheduled. The output is a practical management plan your project team can actually use from day one - not a document sitting on a shelf.

Obligations Register Hold Points Witness Points Clause Cross-Reference Project Management Plan
Bottom line: specialist human judgment, accelerated by our bespoke AI, with Microsoft-grade security end-to-end. Getting data is one thing. Knowing what to look for - and what to do with it - is where 30+ years of infrastructure experience makes the difference.
Microsoft 365 SharePoint SSO End-to-End Encrypted No Public Model Training

Ready to strengthen your commercial position?

Whether you're navigating a dispute, preparing for adjudication, or need senior commercial support on a live programme - contact us early.

Get in Touch

Let's talk about
your commercial position.

Whether you're facing a disputed payment, about to sign a subcontract, managing a deteriorating project relationship, or considering a formal claim - contact us early. The earlier we're engaged, the more we can do.

  • DirectorRoger Newman
  • AddressLevel 19, 10 Eagle Street
    Brisbane QLD 4000
  • QBCCAdjudicator ID J1257750