Keeping Consolidated Power Projects charged with expert travel

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Keeping Consolidated Power Projects charged with expert travel

See how Consolidated Power Projects keeps 600+ employees moving with a tailored travel solution built around expert support, smart tech, and 24/7 cover.

The customer

Consolidated Power Projects (CPP) is Australia's leading high-voltage infrastructure contractor. Since 1996, they've delivered more than 320 projects, connecting more wind farms to the electricity grid than any other contractor in the country.

Industry: High-voltage (HV) infrastructure
Headquarters: Adelaide, SA
Number of a travellers: 600+
Travel profile: Executives and project staff travelling weekly to remote sites across Australia, plus international trips requiring complex routing and layover management

The challenge

Consolidated Power Projects grew fast, and with that came a travel challenge many businesses know well: the person doing the booking is running out of hours in the day.

For Sarah Hunter, Executive Assistant to the President at CPP, international travel was the real pressure point. Complex routing and airport layover rules take time to master. Without that expertise, booking international trips meant hours of unnecessary research and phone calls.

Sarah knew from experience what unsupported travel costs an EA: in a previous role, disruptions on the road meant her phone rang at any hour. Scaling past 600 employees, CPP couldn't afford to run that way.

“You book the travel yourself, you do all these things yourself, it just takes so much time and it also requires a bit of knowledge, especially for international travel … having a dedicated team and the knowledge that they have is just so helpful.”

- Sarah Hunter, Executive Assistant to the President, Consolidated Power Projects

For Craig Ackerley, Shared Services Finance Manager, the challenge was financial precision. CPP runs multiple large-scale projects at once, each with its own budget. Every flight and hotel booking needs to map to the right project code for easier reconciliation and ATO compliance.

Why Consolidated Power Projects chose Corporate Traveller

CPP needed a travel management partner that could take complexity off their team's plate, without adding a new layer of admin.

Watch Sarah and Craig explain why they chose Corporate Traveller in the video below.

The Corporate Traveller solution

Dedicated travel manager

Like every Corporate Traveller customer, Consolidated Power Projects works with a dedicated travel manager who handles the bookings so Sarah doesn’t have to. Those travel managers have an average of nine years’ experience between them.

International routing, tight layovers, and connecting flights across multiple airports are managed by someone who already knows each traveller's patterns and preferences.

24/7 support

When CPP's executives hit a disruption mid-trip, the Corporate Traveller after-hours team steps in. Sarah doesn’t need to receive late-night calls to sort changed itineraries from the road, like she did in her previous role.
That burden now sits with a team built to handle it any time of day or night.

Fast booking tech

For CPP's project staff booking regular domestic site travel, their online booking tool Savi handles it.

“It's fast — you click something and it goes to the next screen,” Sarah says. Staff can lock in flights and accommodation in minutes, with sensible default options surfaced.

Simple trips stay simple, and the dedicated travel manager stays free for itineraries that genuinely need expert attention.

Market expertise

CPP's dedicated travel manager knows when key events (such as Melbourne's Grand Prix) will push fares up and accommodation out.

That awareness means CPP can plan ahead and avoid paying a premium because of a calendar event nobody flagged. With 600+ travellers, even small savings per booking add up.

Consolidated spend visibility

Craig's team needs every booking mapped to a specific project cost code from the moment it's made. Corporate Traveller structures CPP's account around that need.

Consolidated, ATO-compliant tax invoices arrive grouped by project, covering flights, hotels, and everything in between in a single document. Credits from cancelled or delayed flights are tracked and applied, not lost between invoices.

"Otherwise our team would be filling out Excel spreadsheets, coding every expense, emailing managers, sending claims to accounts payable, and pushing everything through for payment. That would add up to more than 100 hours a week just trying to get claims in and paid."
Craig Ackerley
Shared Services Finance Manager, Consolidated Power Projects

Winning outcomes

Consolidated Power Project’s travel program is calmer, faster, and better tracked than it ever was before.

Sarah now spends significantly less time on complex booking research. Executives get well-considered travel options without her needing to be a routing expert.

On the finance side, Craig's team has clean, project-coded invoices ready for reporting and compliance. Credits management means expenditure doesn't quietly disappear, and reporting from Corporate Traveller now feeds directly into cost-saving decisions, giving Finance genuine visibility over where the travel budget is going.

The end result is a workforce of 600+ people getting to their sites reliably and efficiently, with two key people, an EA and a Shared Services Finance Manager, no longer stretched to breaking point to make it happen.

Your team moves fast.

Your travel should too.

Whether you're managing project-based travel across multiple sites or supporting executives on complex international trips, a dedicated Corporate Traveller expert can help.

Book some time in to have a chat with us today to see how we can make your business travel easy as.