For new projects, we operate as an extension of the owning authority taking overall stewardship responsibility to the development of project specifications, through bidder evaluation and negotiation, to contractor audit. Alternatively we work as an integral part of the selected contracting consortia providing advice on all material and protection issues as well as undertaking individual packages of work covering; the development of operating philosophies; the design of corrosion management systems covering both CP and Stray Current; and the design and supply of condition monitoring equipment.

For existing assets we work directly for the utility / asset owner or the incumbent O&M contractor to provide effective corrosion and material condition asset management; providing discrete condition assessment services and the longer term provision of operational support programmes.

Our role across the Transportation and Utility sectors is continually growing, aided by our appreciation of the commercial and contracting structures that govern large infrastructure projects, our detailed science and engineering understanding, practical knowledge, laboratory and site measurement facilities and operational resource support.

For example, on behalf of the Manchester Metrolink Light Rail Transit System, CAPCIS are viewed by all parties as providing an independent asset stewardship role that included (in 2002) a 10-year stray current performance audit, including design, management and execution of comprehensive surveys across utility services and railway infrastructures.