Our Expert Solutions
Across all our services, Strabo Rivers combines technical depth with practical delivery.
We work collaboratively with clients and partners to produce outputs that are defensible, transparent, and ready for decision-making.
Regulatory Economics
Strabo Rivers provides expert advice on the design, preparation, and review of regulatory submissions for water and infrastructure businesses.
We combine rigorous economic analysis with practical experience in regulation to help clients secure sustainable pricing outcomes and demonstrate value to customers and regulators.
Our work includes:
Price submissions and determinations (IPART, OTTER, QCA, ESC)
Operating and capital expenditure efficiency reviews
Regulatory model design, testing, and documentation
Strategic advice on regulatory frameworks and stakeholder engagement
Business Case Development
We prepare business cases that stand up to scrutiny — robust, evidence-based, and aligned with government investment frameworks.
Our work integrates technical, financial, and stakeholder inputs into a clear investment logic that links community outcomes to funding decisions.
Our experience includes:
Preliminary and Full Business Cases under NSW Treasury, Queensland Treasury, and Infrastructure Australia frameworks
Options assessment and multi-criteria analysis
Economic, financial, and risk assessment
Investment logic mapping and problem definition
Investment Case Development
We help clients and project proponents secure funding and investor confidence by presenting the economic rationale, project feasibility, and delivery pathways with clarity and credibility.
Our services include:
Economic and financial analysis to support investor and funding applications
Market and demand studies
Sensitivity testing and scenario modelling
Strategic positioning and investment storytelling
Asset Investment Prioritisation
When budgets are tight and needs are many, prioritisation becomes essential.
Strabo Rivers designs frameworks and tools that direct investment to where it delivers the greatest value — balancing performance, risk, cost, and community benefit.
We assist clients with:
Capital investment prioritisation models
Program-level optimisation and weighting tools
Scoring frameworks that integrate technical, financial, and community outcomes
Training and support for internal teams
Flood Investment Prioritisation
We support councils and utilities to prioritise flood mitigation and resilience investments in a transparent, evidence-based way.
Our frameworks bring together engineering data, community risk, and financial efficiency to help decision-makers fund the right projects at the right time.
Our flood investment prioritisation work includes:
Multi-criteria and benefit–cost frameworks tailored to local conditions
Integration of risk, hazard mapping, and asset exposure data
Development of decision-support tools for program-level prioritisation
Collaboration with technical and planning teams to align projects with resilience objectives
Generative AI
At Strabo Rivers, we use generative AI to make our work faster and clearer — not to replace human thinking.
AI helps us organise ideas, test assumptions, and communicate complex problems more effectively, but every piece of advice we give is grounded in real evidence and expert judgment. We sometimes use anonymised or de-identified project material within AI tools to help structure thinking, but we never use information that could identify clients or disclose sensitive details.
We always combine AI-assisted drafting with deep technical and economic analysis. For us, GenAI is a tool to sharpen insight — not a substitute for it.
