Our Mission

Changing The Paradigm

We strongly believe in changing modern consultancy, offering tailored solutions to challenging infrastructure problems.

Pragmatic & Sensible

We provide you with practical and easy solutions for your business. Whether its an idea, a contract or a project, you can rest assured that we’re going to help you with simple, straight forward advice. We’re committed to providing you with top notch technical, commercial and managerial support and knowledge. We approach every client with a focus on integrity, advocacy, and understanding. 

Diverse & Agile

We help our clients achieve and retain the greatest possible outcome from their investment, drawing on over 100 years of expert experience. We guarantee effective and knowledgeable advisors for you and your business. Our personal reputations and history of success with our clients and their business needs speaks for itself. There's no substitution for the best.

Forward Thinking

Our Advisors are leading experts across Infrastructure and the Built Environment. The complex, important, and often ground-breaking matters on which we work has attracted convergent thinkers who are passionate to make a difference. We're lucky enough to collaborate with the best and brightest paradigm busters.

a fresh, agile approach to INFRASTRUCTURE consultancy

Brian Fitzpatrick

​FCIHT APMP

Brian is a constantly curious, energetic and resourceful advisor, with extensive expertise in the successful delivery of major investments for the public and private sectors, with particular expertise in Future Cities.

Barry O'Driscoll

CEng FICE FCIHT

A highly experienced and versatile civil engineer and business leader, with more than 20 years experience across infrastructure, and with particular expertise in the Highways sector.​

About Us

Steve Ellis

BEng MIACCM MAPM

Proficient in engineering, project management and commercial management, Steve brings over 20 years infrastructure expertise from the domestic and international market, with particular expertise in the Rail sector.​

who we are

Modern infrastructure provides the vital arteries for the efficient and effective movement of goods and services. They provide the essential links between employment and housing, exports and manufacturing, growth and stability. For too long these economic arteries have suffered from an input-focused mindset, with discrete interventions, short-term investment cycles and political differences contributing to economic under-achievement. The ability of strategic infrastructure investment to unlock economic potential, and transform wider economic outcomes, is once again being recognised by governments. The level of planned spending, the highest since the Victorian era, is going to provide a significant challenge to the perceived wisdom within the infrastructure sector, and its business models. We therefore need to find a new convergent way of working, to deliver a better service to our clients.

A Different Business Model

At Odvantage, we see things differently. Whilst we share a passion to help our clients achieve the best possible infrastructure outcomes, we fully understand how conditions below the surface will dictate delivery. When considering the shortfall of pragmatic experience and expertise in the industry, and how to deliver a tailored and personal service to our clients, Odvantage has simply borrowed from the ‘code share’ concept. Our diversity lets us find the best solution for making your project successful. Our Advisors come from an impressive variety of disciplines and career paths, pairing expertise with experience, ensuring that our approach considers all angles of infrastructure advisory services.

We liken our business model to the ‘code share’ alliance model because, apart from the close collaborative professional ties we enjoy, forged as a result of working together professionally over the last 20 years, our geographic dispersal means we are together able to provide strategic, technical and commercial expertise across the UK.