Owner's Representation · Strategic Infrastructure Advisory

Representing Owners Through Complex Infrastructure Decisions

Owner's representation and strategic infrastructure advisory for capital programs, resilience initiatives, and complex public infrastructure.

The decisions that shape a program's cost, schedule, and public outcomes are often made early — before construction begins. CWR helps owners see the full picture before those decisions are committed.

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01The Premise

The most consequential infrastructure decisions are made before construction begins.

Governance, funding, procurement, risk allocation, and institutional priorities shape a program long before the first contract is signed. Engineering is one component of a much larger picture.

Public owners carry the accountability for those decisions to a board, a council, or a legislature. They rarely have the in-house capacity to weigh every dimension as it is decided, and the firms advising them are often the same firms delivering the work.

CWR sits on the owner's side, independent of construction revenue, bringing decades of direct program experience to the decisions that set cost, schedule, and risk — so the owner understands the consequences before they are committed.

02Perspective

Infrastructure looks different depending on where you sit.

CWR's perspective is informed by decades of experience across the institutions responsible for planning, funding, governing, delivering, operating, and overseeing public infrastructure — as a municipal engineer and capital program director, an elected official, a regional planning participant, a concession auditor, and a program executive across the United States and Latin America.

Owner Perspective

Years as City Engineer and Director of Capital Improvements for the City of Miami Beach, administering a program that grew from roughly $400 million to over $1.2 billion. The work of funding, defending, prioritizing, and answering for public infrastructure investment, from the inside.

Delivery Perspective

Lead and program roles on major works — the Boston Central Artery/Tunnel Project, the MWRA Metrowest Water Supply Tunnel, the Brickell Sewer Interceptor microtunnel, and the Los Merinos Wastewater Treatment Plant in Guayaquil — through planning, procurement, construction, and turnover.

Institutional Perspective

Service as an elected Council Member, on metropolitan planning committees, and as concession auditor under ETOSS using OFWAT methodology in Argentina — alongside programs financed by the World Bank, the Inter-American Development Bank, and EXIM across the United States and Latin America.

03Practice

Counsel at the decisions that set cost, schedule, and risk.

CWR works on the owner's side across the full arc of a capital program, from the early choices that shape the budget through procurement, delivery, and close-out.

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Owner's Representation

Independent representation of owner interests across planning, procurement, and delivery. CWR holds the owner's position when programs span years, multiple firms, and changing administrations.

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Capital Program Advisory

Counsel on how a program is structured, sequenced, and funded, from business case through execution. CWR tests the assumptions that drive cost before they are locked in.

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Governance & Delivery Strategy

Clear decision rights and accountability across the program, so the owner knows who is deciding what, when, and on what basis — and can answer for it later.

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Resilience & Risk Advisory

Judgment on the risks that move budgets and schedules — funding conditions, contractor claims, climate exposure, and stakeholder pressure — translated into decisions the owner can act on early.

04Experience

The record of programs delivered.

CWR's judgment comes from decades of direct accountability for the programs below, at the scale and exposure where a single early decision can move a budget by millions.

Water & Wastewater

Treatment, conveyance, and utility capital programs delivered under regulatory deadlines and funding conditions.

Capital Programs

Multi-year, multi-billion-dollar portfolios where cost, schedule, and public exposure compound across many projects at once.

Transportation

Transit, highway, and mobility programs balancing public stakeholders, grant conditions, and contractor risk.

Tunnels & Underground

Subsurface works where geotechnical surprise and contractual risk can become major claims on a program.

Coastal Resilience

Climate-adaptation and shoreline programs that must justify long-horizon spending to funders and the public.

International Infrastructure

Cross-border and multilateral-funded programs navigating jurisdiction, finance, and disbursement rules.

05The Principal
Fernando A. Vazquez, P.E.
Fernando A. Vazquez, P.E.
Principal

Judgment formed on every side of the table.

Fernando A. Vazquez, P.E., has spent forty years making infrastructure decisions from the perspectives of owner, operator, regulator, elected official, consultant, and program executive.

His career spans municipal government, utility operations, capital improvement programs, international infrastructure initiatives, public-sector governance, and private-sector regional leadership. As City Engineer and later Director of Capital Improvements for Miami Beach, he administered a public infrastructure program that grew past $1.2 billion, coordinating engineering, procurement, finance, legal, and regulatory agencies through delivery. As an elected Council Member in the Village of Key Biscayne, he reviews budgets, resiliency planning, and capital investment from the governing side.

Internationally, he served as Consortium Director for the group delivering the Los Merinos Wastewater Treatment Plant in Guayaquil, and earlier conducted utility concession auditing under ETOSS in Argentina using OFWAT-based methodology, on programs tied to the World Bank, the IDB, and EXIM. Earlier still, he led civil and utility coordination on the Boston Central Artery/Tunnel Project and the MWRA Metrowest Water Supply Tunnel.

That breadth provides a perspective few advisors possess. It is the foundation of the judgment CWR brings to complex infrastructure decisions — informed by having seen how those decisions are made, funded, governed, defended, challenged, and ultimately delivered.

40 Years
Across public infrastructure and water resources
Owner, Operator, Regulator & Elected Roles
Decisions seen from every side of the table
World Bank · IDB · EXIM
International and multilateral-funded programs
P.E. · Independent
Licensed engineer, independent of construction revenue

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Bring CWR in early.

The decisions that shape a program are made early — before the pursuit, before the politics, before the schedule tightens. That is where independent judgment changes the outcome.

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