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Infrastructure Asset Management Services
As Infrastructure Asset Managers, Brickstone provides holistic oversight and management to safeguard investor value, enhance operational performance, and ensure long-term sustainability of infrastructure assets. Our services span the full asset lifecycle—from financial close through construction, operations, value optimization, and exit—ensuring alignment between investor objectives, lender requirements, and asset performance.
1. Financial Close & Project Mobilization
Ensuring a disciplined transition from financing to executionBrickstone supports project sponsors and investors in translating financial close into effective project mobilization by establishing robust governance, financial controls, and performance management systems from day one
Scope of Services includes:
- Monitoring and validating satisfaction of all conditions precedent to financial close.
- Oversight of drawdown schedules, fund flows, and capital deployment in line with financing agreements.
- Establishment of governance structures, reporting protocols, and asset management frameworks.
- Support in finalizing project agreements, insurance programs, guarantees, and lender compliance requirements.
- Development of performance monitoring tools, KPIs, risk registers, and control dashboards.
2. Construction Oversight & Project Delivery
Protecting capital during the highest-risk phase of the asset lifecycleActing as the Owner’s Representative, Brickstone safeguards investor interests by ensuring that projects are delivered on time, within budget, and to agreed technical and ESG standards.
Scope of Services includes:
- Oversight and coordination of EPC contractors, subcontractors, and key technical advisors.
- Monitoring construction progress against approved budgets, schedules, and quality benchmarks.
- Management of variations, claims, and cost overruns to protect project economics.
- Tracking compliance with environmental, social, health, and safety standards, aligned with IFC/ESG requirements.
- Coordination with independent engineers, lenders’ technical advisors, and monitoring agents.
- Provision of transparent, periodic reporting to investors, lenders, and other stakeholders.
3. Transition to Operations (Commercial Operations Date – COD)
Ensuring a seamless shift from construction to revenue generationBrickstone manages the critical handover phase to ensure the asset achieves Commercial Operations Date efficiently, with operational readiness and financial performance aligned to the base-case model.
Scope of Services includes:
- Verification of completion tests, commissioning activities, and handover documentation.
- Confirmation that all operational permits, licenses, and insurance coverages are in place.
- Oversight of operational readiness, including O&M contracts, staffing plans, and training programs.
- Support for refinancing or capital restructuring, where required.
- Validation of actual project performance against financial model assumptions at COD.
4. Operational Phase Asset Management
Maximizing performance, resilience, and long-term valueDuring operations, Brickstone focuses on optimizing asset performance, managing risks, and ensuring sustainable cash flow generation over the life of the asset.
Scope of Services includes:
- Oversight of day-to-day operations through performance monitoring of O&M contractors.
- Monitoring revenue generation, tariff or fee collection, and compliance with off-taker and customer contracts.
- Financial management including cash flow tracking, debt service coverage, reserve accounts, and distributions.
- Implementation of preventive maintenance programs and long-term asset lifecycle planning.
- Continuous ESG compliance and stakeholder and community engagement.
- Benchmarking operational and financial performance against peer assets and industry standards.
- Preparation of periodic financial, operational, and compliance reports for investors and lenders.
- Variance analysis against approved budgets, business plans, and financial models.
- Recommendations on dividend policies, reinvestment options, and capital allocation strategies.
- Identification and execution of performance improvement initiatives to enhance ROI.
Brickstone’s Value Add as Infrastructure Asset Managers
Brickstone acts as a long-term steward of infrastructure capital, bridging the gap between investors, lenders, developers, and operators to ensure assets consistently deliver their intended financial, operational, and developmental outcomes. By combining financial discipline, technical oversight, ESG stewardship, and active performance management, we reduce downside risks during development and operations while systematically unlocking upside value across the asset lifecycle.
Our hands-on, owner-representative approach ensures:
Value Proposition
- Capital protection and predictability of returns through robust governance, controls, and lender-aligned compliance.
- Operational excellence and resilience, driven by data-led performance monitoring and continuous optimization.
- Enhanced investor confidence, supported by transparent reporting and proactive risk management.
- Long-term value maximization, through strategic refinancing, asset enhancement, and disciplined exit planning.
