Case Study: Programme Turnaround & Commercial Assurance in Complex Regeneration

Client / Sector

Battersea Power Station Development Company - Urban Regeneration & Mixed-Use Development

Challenge

The £2bn redevelopment of Battersea Power Station was facing significant challenges: potential budget pressures, contractual disputes, and delivery delays across multiple packages. Funder confidence was low, and the existing delivery model lacked the transparency and control needed to manage a scheme of such scale and complexity. Without intervention, the programme risked further escalation, undermining both financial viability and stakeholder trust.

Our Role

Effectus CS was engaged to provide strategic commercial intervention and programme assurance. Our responsibilities included:

• Leading a forensic review of existing contracts, identifying areas of risk, duplication, and misalignment.

• Restructuring commercial frameworks to bring transparency and accountability to cost and delivery.

• Negotiating with designers and contractors to stabilise relationships and reduce adversarial claims.

• Embedding programme controls and governance to provide investors with confidence in the project’s future trajectory.

Outcome

• Re-established commercial discipline and cost transparency across the programme.

• Reduced projected overspend exposure, creating a more defendable financial outlook.

• Restored confidence among investors and stakeholders, enabling continuity of funding and progress on site.

• Positioned the development to continue as one of the UK’s most iconic regeneration schemes.

Why It Matters

This case study demonstrates ECS’s ability to intervene in complex, high-profile programmes, protect commercial interests, and deliver the governance and controls required to restore confidence, safeguard investment, and ensure project momentum.