Built for better
outcomes.
Strategic guidance and clear direction for complex construction and development projects. Bringing the experience to see around corners and the independence to say what needs saying.
Projects and construction businesses fail in the decisions, not the documents. ALR Advisory sits beside the people accountable for outcomes — bringing the experience to see around corners, the independence to say what needs saying, and the depth in the Victorian market to make it count.
Certainty from business case to handover.
- Procurement strategy & advice
- Development management
- Pre-construction management
- Early contractor involvement (ECI)
- Construction delivery monitoring
- Dispute avoidance & resolution
Sharper positioning, stronger execution.
- Business advisory
- Fractional & interim executive roles
- Market positioning & growth strategy
- Major bid management
- Dispute avoidance & resolution
- Turnaround & recovery support
Confidence in what you're funding.
- Project due diligence
- PCG representation
- Delivery & drawdown monitoring
- Distressed project diagnosis
- Project turnaround & recovery
- Project takeover strategy
A conversation is the best place to start.
Tell us where the project is and where it needs to be. We'll tell you, plainly, how we can help.
Get in touch →Two decades of decisions at the sharp end of business and projects.
Andrew La Rocca founded ALR Advisory to put genuine executive experience within reach of the organisations delivering Victoria's major projects.
Across more than twenty years, Andrew has held senior and executive roles spanning the full project lifecycle — procurement and development management for clients, and operational leadership, bidding and delivery for head contractors. He has sat on both sides of the table, which is precisely why his advice lands: he understands the pressures, the incentives and the decisions each party is really facing.
His work runs from the earliest commercial strategy through to the hardest conversations when projects come under stress. Clients value the clarity; contractors value the candour; everyone values the depth of relationships and market knowledge that only comes from twenty years inside the Victorian sector.
- Focus Executive advisory & decision support
- Solution Contractor involvement without the conflict
- Sectors Social infrastructure, mission critical, health, education, residential, commercial, mixed-use
- Market Government, private, financiers, head contractors & subcontractors
Engagements are summarised to protect client confidentiality. Detail available on request.
Executive judgement, and a team to put behind it.
How ALR Advisory works matters as much as what it does. Four principles govern every engagement — and where a job needs more than one discipline, a network of allied advisors is assembled and led rather than referred on.
One point of contact. A full team behind it.
ALR Advisory is deliberately lean, but rarely alone. For work that needs more than one set of hands, Andrew assembles a team from a trusted network of sole practitioners and independent specialists — chosen for the job, briefed as one team, and answerable to one person.
Exec builder led.
Every allied advisor works to a builder's brief and reports through Andrew. That single layer of executive oversight is what changes the output — a programme reviewed by someone who has built the work asks different questions of it, and a cost plan led by someone who has bid the job knows where the number will move.
It is the model that suits early contractor involvement in particular, where design, programme and cost have to be resolved together and quickly. You get the breadth of a large consultancy without the overhead, the handoffs, or four separate parties each optimising their own scope.
Worth a conversation?
The first discussion is usually enough to tell whether this is the right kind of help — and, if it isn't, who is.
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Three streams of work, one standard of judgement.
Whether you're commissioning a project, competing to deliver one, or funding it, the need is the same: clear-eyed advice from someone who has been there. Our work divides into three streams.
Not sure which stream fits?
Most engagements start with a conversation and a clear scope. Tell us the situation and we'll shape the right involvement.
Start a conversation →Let's talk about your project.
Enquiries are answered personally, usually within two business days. For confidential or time-critical matters, note it in your message and we'll respond accordingly.