Case Study

Morgan Sindall Infrastructure
Multi-Sector Weather Risk

Client: Morgan Sindall Infrastructure Scope: Multi-sector deployment Sectors: Highways / Water / Rail / Utilities

How Morgan Sindall Infrastructure deployed WeatherWise across multiple sectors to standardise weather risk management and improve planning accuracy.

Project Overview

Morgan Sindall Infrastructure is one of the UK's leading infrastructure contractors, delivering projects across multiple sectors including highways, water, rail, and utilities. Each sector involves a diverse portfolio of projects with different weather sensitivities and planning requirements.

The business recognised that weather risk was a significant but inconsistently managed variable across its projects. Different project teams had different approaches to weather planning, making it difficult to compare or standardise weather risk across the organisation. WeatherWise was deployed across all sectors to create a consistent, data-driven approach to weather risk management.

The Challenge

Scaling weather risk management from individual projects to a standardised, organisation-wide capability required overcoming operational, technical, and cultural challenges.

Diverse Project Types

From highways to commercial buildings, each project type has fundamentally different weather sensitivities. A highway project cares about rainfall and visibility; a commercial fit-out cares about wind loads during cladding installation.

Sector-Level Silos

Each sector had developed its own weather risk approach over time, resulting in inconsistent methodologies, different data sources, and no ability to compare or aggregate weather risk across the organisation.

Tender-Stage Accuracy

Weather contingency at tender stage was based on rule-of-thumb estimates that varied by team and sector. Some tenders included too much contingency (losing competitiveness); others included too little (creating cost risk).

The Solution

WeatherWise was deployed across all Morgan Sindall Infrastructure sectors, providing consistent methodology with sector-specific configurations.

1

Multi-Sector Platform

A single WeatherWise deployment serving all project sectors, with shared infrastructure and consistent methodology but sector-specific configurations and threshold templates.

2

Sector-Specific Templates

Weather threshold templates tailored to each sector's project types — highways, water, rail, and utilities — ensuring relevant weather intelligence for every team.

3

Quarterly Risk Reporting

Centralised weather data feeding into quarterly risk reports, providing consistent metrics for tracking weather impact and contingency utilisation across projects.

Results

Transforming weather risk from a project-level issue into a standardised, organisation-wide capability.

Unified

Planning Methodology

Consistent weather planning across all sectors

Better

Tender Accuracy

Improved weather contingency accuracy at tender stage

Consistent

Risk Reporting

Standardised weather risk reporting across all projects

Key Takeaways

  • 1

    Multi-sector deployment scales efficiently. A single platform serving all sectors proved more efficient than sector-specific solutions. Shared methodology and infrastructure reduced total cost while maintaining the flexibility for sector-specific configurations.

  • 2

    Portfolio visibility transforms weather risk management. When weather risk is only visible at the project level, it is managed reactively. Organisation-wide visibility enabled proactive risk management, better resource allocation, and more informed decision-making.

  • 3

    Consistent methodology builds organisational capability. Standardising weather risk management across all sectors did more than improve accuracy — it built a shared language and methodology that improved collaboration, knowledge sharing, and organisational resilience to weather disruption.

Frequently Asked Questions

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How does multi-sector deployment work?▾
Multi-sector deployment provides a single platform with sector-specific configurations. Each sector gets weather threshold templates tailored to their project types, while a centralised dashboard gives programme-level visibility across all projects.
What is a portfolio weather risk dashboard?▾
The portfolio dashboard aggregates weather risk data from all active projects across all sectors into a single view, showing total weather risk exposure, delay accumulation trends, contingency tracking, and sector-level comparisons.
Can different sectors have different weather thresholds?▾
Yes. Each sector has its own weather threshold templates reflecting their specific project types. Highway construction has different weather sensitivities to water infrastructure. The platform maintains sector-specific templates while ensuring consistent methodology.
How does it improve tender-stage contingency?▾
WeatherWise provides site-specific probabilistic weather data that replaces rule-of-thumb estimates in tenders. By analysing historical weather patterns at the exact project location, teams include accurate weather contingency rather than relying on generic allowances.

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