ABOUT

Our Story

Collectiveight Pty Ltd was founded by Jacqui and Paul Blenkinship, who have 30 and 40 years experience in the construction and engineering industries respectively. Prior to founding Collectiveight Jacqui and Paul owned a successful consultancy in the UK for 12 years until the transfer of their business to Savills UK and moving to Perth in 2013.

Collectiveight work with a team of associates with similar values, using our collective skills to proactively define and deliver your projects with best practice outcomes.

Our strength is bringing together and managing teams of like-minded individuals, so you benefit from the multiplier effect of our collaboration.

Our team pride themselves on thinking strategically, finding ways to add value to our service provision, whilst ensuring all aspects of your project are delivered successfully.

Ultimately, our team care about our clients and the services we provide to them. As such our focus is on pragmatic implementation and continuous improvement of our service provision.

Our Values

INTEGRITY

We are honest, open, fair and reasonable

TEAMWORK

We collaborate to combine everyone’s skills to ensure successful delivery

INNOVATION

We continuously seek more efficient and effective ways to deliver our services

ACCOUNTABILITY

We take personal responsibility for delivering effective solutions for our clients

Our Team

Jacqui Blenkinship

DIRECTOR
Jacqui is a Chartered Construction Manager and Certified Associate of the Asset Management Council, with over 30 years’ experience in property development and asset management.

Paul Blenkinship

DIRECTOR
Paul is an engineer with over 40 years experience in property, social infrastructure, and energy sectors; covering oil and gas, nuclear and wider civil and structural engineering projects.

Social Responsibility

Whilst we focus on our projects we also strive to achieve a work life balance. Part of this balance involves our contribution to our local communities through pro-bono work, volunteering and participating in community sporting teams.

Paul is an active crew member on Black Smoke, a Farr 9.2 (Fremantle built boat), sailing and racing out of Royal Perth Yacht Club, Crawley.

Jacqui has a lifelong love of the independence and ‘wind in your hair’ experience that cycling provides. The thought of not being able to cycle anymore prompted Jacqui to train as a pilot for cycling without age.

Jacqui is an active pilot of the trishaw based with Curtin Heritage Living at their Wearne home in Cottesloe. The feedback and the headspace that riding for a few hours a week gives is great for pilots and passengers;

‘bringing such joy and connection to the community for our residents. You are very special people to donate your time and energy to this great initiative.’

Never one to forego a challenge, Jacqui is also learning to ride a unicycle. ‘it’s the most difficult thing I’ve ever tried to learn in my life’ if progress can be made then a charity unicycle ride is the ultimate goal.

OUR CLIENTS

“North Star Housing Group has worked with Jacqui as a consultant on a range of asset management and investment planning reviews and projects. Jacqui is an expert in the field of asset management and assisted us to better understand our assets, that led to improved focus on investment and the release of loan capacity. We now have a very robust and reliable asset management strategy and asset condition information and a return on assets model with highly effective planning. Jacqui blends her expertise, with helpful challenge and organisational understanding.”

“Durham City Homes asked Jacqui to help us with a root and branch review of our approach to asset management and then work with us in developing and delivering an action plan to deliver the improvements that were identified. She worked with us in completely overhauling our approach to stock condition and programme development, procuring delivery partners and ensuring statutory and regulatory compliance. Her in-depth and comprehensive knowledge helped guide us through this process, while her supportive and practical approach ensured that it was implemented in a timely and efficient manner that was never forced and with a minimum of friction. She is particularly good at working with teams of people to identify the best way forward for the group, not imposing her own agenda and is very strong in knowledge transfer and developing teams to deliver their best.”.

“Being able to get into the detail and work alongside the foot soldiers yet be strategic with project principals– and how to flip between the two approaches, is a rare yet very valuable skill in project management that’s not seen amongst most consultants. Thankfully for us and the project, Jacqui possessed it in spades.”

"Paul has great design and technical knowledge, this enabled him to provide pragmatic decisions in a timely manner to ensure that the project was delivered on time and under budget."

"Jacqui worked with me on several projects as Partnering Adviser where among other things, she chaired collaborative contracting workshops, conducted 360 degree reviews of the project team, identified risk and removed delivery ambiguity. Her work on bringing the teams together and working with them to define their roles, responsibilities, tasks and actions has been first class and delivered real results."

"The professionalism, emotional intelligence and insightfulness , Jacqui brought to the project cannot be overstated, as the above points were achieved in days not weeks. It was this achievement and those key attributes which I believe differentiated Jacqui from her many peers in the industry. Given the opportunity I would not hesitate in employing Jacqui directly or via her new entity “Collectiveight”"

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