Louis Berger has been increasingly active in recent years in the growing field of privately financed and public private partnerships for transportation and infrastructure facilities. We have been acting as consultants on infrastructure projects throughout the world covering a wide range of transport modes particularly road, rail and airport facilities. These have ranged from developing strategies for the public sector, to partnering with the private sector and development of private concession projects covering the full range of Build-Operate-Transfer (BOT) projects and their variants.

Particular areas of experience of Berger include providing services to clients, promoters, owners and financial institutions in determining the appropriate legal, financial and institutional structures required for major capital projects. Louis Berger's international perspective enables us to address the impact of technical issues on project finance requirements and the financial impacts of technical issues and risks.

Louis Berger has been an innovator and facilitator in the involvement of private sector finance and management in infrastructure. Berger has developed keen knowledge and capability in several aspects of this field:

• Project structuring
• Institutional development
• Financial feasibility and value for money
• Contract review
• Due diligence and risk analysis
• Planning and design and performance standards
• Construction, project and program management
• Cost, schedule and quality control and
• Traffic and revenue assessment

Louis Berger's recent experience has in particular focused on the transport sector and the development, management and operation of facilities. This experience includes:

• Private investment in transport infrastructure
• Toll roads, bridges and tunnels
• Development of terminal facilities, ports and airports
• Mass transit, light rail, high speed rail networks
• Private sector management, operation and maintenance of facilities.