Coordination is the scarce skill in European infrastructure.
Capital and capability are both available. What is scarce is the discipline to make them work together across borders, regulators and supply chains.
Across European infrastructure, energy and sustainability, the binding constraint is rarely money or engineering talent. Both can be sourced. What is hard to assemble is the coordination that holds finance, regulation, procurement and delivery to a single line — across more than one market and more than one stakeholder.
A project fails not because no one could build it, but because the parts were never brought together under one centre. The contractor optimises for its scope, the financier for its risk, the regulator for its mandate. Without a centre, these pull apart — quietly at first, then all at once.
London Arena sits at that centre. We hold the architecture of the investment; the work on site is delivered, under our direction, by the specialists best placed to do it — structured, contracted and sequenced so the whole holds. Coordination is not overhead. On a cross-border programme, it is the difference between a plan and a result.