Infrastructure & Energy
From innovation to operations – transforming how Europe builds and powers its future
Nuclear new build, grid modernisation, green hydrogen, rail regeneration, low-carbon construction — we help operators, utilities, and contractors master the complexity of programmes that shape European infrastructure and energy systems of tomorrow.
Challenges & How we help
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Innovating and industrialising new systems at scale
Nuclear, hydrogen, renewables, low-carbon transport, water treatment: new systems must be developed and taken to industrial scale. EPR2 must not repeat EPR1. Electrolysers must move from lab to factory. Rolling stock and signalling systems must be deployed as repeatable programmes. And the construction sector must embed sustainability at design stage - where over 70% of environmental impact is determined.
R&D and systems engineering for complex products
Structuring development programmes for reactors, electrolysers, turbines, and rolling stock with systems engineering, design-to-cost, and design-to-safety approaches
Industrialisation of major programmes
Standardising processes and deploying cross-cutting tools to shift from one-off delivery to repeatable industrial execution
Industrial ramp-up and supply chain transformation
Designing manufacturing models and securing supply chains for technologies transitioning from prototype to series
Eco-design, circular economy, and low-carbon construction
Integrating environmental constraints at design stage to reduce the carbon footprint of materials, processes, and infrastructure over their full lifecycle
PLM and digital engineering
Deploying engineering data management across design, simulation, and manufacturing for complex energy and infrastructure systems
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Delivering complex programmes and elevating project performance
Operators must govern mega-programmes spanning decades, hundreds of suppliers, and multi-billion commitments. Contractors must improve margins and delivery reliability in a sector that historically underperforms on cost and schedule. Both must industrialise their project management to deliver more with less.
Programme governance for mega-projects
Structuring decision-making, cost control, risk management, and multi-stakeholder coordination for multi-year capital programmes
Portfolio and project performance management
Deploying planning, earned value, and performance measurement to improve visibility across investment portfolios
Lean and operational excellence in project execution
Embedding lean practices to improve margins and delivery reliability for operators and contractors alike
Workforce planning and capability building
Sizing resource needs, identifying critical skill gaps, and designing ramp-up and training plans to match the pace of industrial scale-up
BIM and digital project management
Leveraging building information modelling to improve coordination, reduce rework, and strengthen multi-party collaboration
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Managing critical infrastructure across its full lifecycle
Power grids, nuclear plants, rail networks, distribution systems - billions in critical assets that must be extended, modernised, maintained, and eventually retired. Operators face simultaneous demands: deploy new capacity, upgrade ageing infrastructure, maintain availability with constrained budgets, and manage end-of-life - a growing challenge as first-generation assets reach retirement.
Network extension and new infrastructure deployment
Structuring supply chains, logistics, and operational planning for new lines, substations, and distribution infrastructure
Asset modernisation and upgrade programmes
Defining retrofit strategies, replacement priorities, and investment sequencing across large heterogeneous portfolios
Predictive maintenance and scheduling optimisation
Deploying data-driven models to anticipate failures and generate optimised intervention plans across distributed networks
Decommissioning, end-of-life, and circular economy
Planning and executing the safe retirement of nuclear and industrial assets, including material recovery, component reuse, and dismantling logistics
Asset data platforms and digital twins
Structuring data governance and deploying analytics for investment prioritisation, network management, and lifecycle decision support
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Mews Labs develops advanced modelling, simulation, and AI solutions across the full range of infrastructure and energy challenges — from asset management to network optimisation and energy performance.
Predictive asset ageing
Hybrid physics and data models predicting degradation of high-voltage network components.
Maintenance scheduling optimisation
Constraint-based algorithms maximising intervention windows across complex rail and metro networks.
Structural fatigue modelling
Digital twin simulating stress and fatigue on offshore energy platforms.
Energy performance modelling
Simulation tools identifying operational levers to reduce energy consumption and carbon footprint across industrial and infrastructure sites.
Explore our expertises
Many of these challenges sits at the intersection of strategy, operations, and technology. So do we. We bring together six complementary practices to address them
Client results
8-year metro maintenance scheduling
Challenge: Plan heavy track maintenance across 16 metro lines with shared critical resources and narrow operational windows.
Mews Planner deployed, extending the planning horizon from 2 to 8 years whilst optimising resource utilisation and minimising traffic disruption.
Predictive ageing of high-voltage transmission lines
Challenge: Monitor degradation across 100,000 km of conductors under variable climatic and mechanical stress.
Hybrid physics-data model deployed in operations, enabling prioritised conductor replacement across the French grid.
Syntec Conseil Silver Award 2022.
Circular economy model for the construction sector
Design of a new business and operating model for the construction industry based on circular economy principles – service offering definition, business model construction, operating model definition and deployment.
Solution under deployment at scale in France.
Syntec Gold Award 2023.
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From nuclear new build to grid modernisation, from project governance to asset lifecycle — we bring the expertise that keeps critical programmes on track.
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