February 20, 2026 • 3 min read
Building resilience into the blueprint
When people connect, share ideas and work to a common standard, that’s when you really start to see what we’re capable of.
For Tony Herceg, resilience isn’t something that helps you get to the end of a project. It’s designed in from the beginning.
Based in Houston and working across regions, Tony leads construction capability within our Global Project Delivery group. His role sits at the intersection of strategy and execution, bringing construction insight into projects early, shaping design and ensuring safe, efficient and consistent delivery.
With more than 20 years’ experience across Australia, the Middle East and the Americas, Tony has seen firsthand what happens when construction is an afterthought – and what’s possible when it’s embedded from day one.
Seeing the whole picture, not just the site
Tony was drawn to our team by the opportunity to work differently. “I’d worked alongside Worley on a lot of projects over the years,” he says. “What stood out was the ability to stay engaged from the front end – through studies and early design – right through to execution.”
That end-to-end visibility matters. By influencing decisions early, construction teams can help shape safer, more buildable outcomes – reducing risk, avoiding rework and creating projects that stand up over time.
It’s a practical way of future-proofing assets. And it’s central to how we deliver value across the full project lifecycle.
Resilience built through early engagement
For Tony, strong project outcomes come down to integration. By bringing construction into early design phases, our teams work ‘right to left’; starting with how a project will be built and aligning engineering, procurement and planning around that reality.
“It changes the conversation,” Tony explains. “Instead of reacting to designs, construction helps define the execution path. Everyone’s working toward the same outcome from the start.”
This approach strengthens collaboration across disciplines and builds resilience into schedules, cost profiles and delivery plans long before teams ever step on site.
Turning complexity into capability
One of Tony’s key focus areas is advancing our approach to advanced work packaging. It’s a methodology built on integration, data and timing, delivering the right information to the field when it’s needed.
“It took time,” he says. “Engineering, procurement and construction all had to understand not just the ‘what’, but the ‘why’.”
The payoff comes during execution. When deliverables align, constraints are reduced and teams can focus on building safely and efficiently. For customers, it demonstrates something simple but powerful: we’re an integrated delivery partner, not a collection of disconnected functions.
Developing people, not just projects
Resilience isn’t just part of our systems and processes. It’s part of how we support our people.
Tony sees our project and programme delivery centers as a cornerstone of capability building; creating consistency across regions while opening development pathways for teams.
“As people learn the delivery model and apply it on real projects, confidence grows,” he says. “You see capability deepen. You see people get excited about what they’re contributing.”
Those ‘light bulb moments’ as Tony calls them – when a process clicks, or a team sees the bigger picture – signal learning is turning into impact.
Creating value that lasts
Much of Tony’s role involves working with customers at the front end – explaining our delivery model, demonstrating digital tools and showing how integrated project delivery creates long-term value.
“It’s not just slides,” he says. “We show how the tools work, how the data connects, how decisions made early carry through to delivery.”
Those conversations help customers see what’s possible. Not just for one project, but for their broader asset portfolios. It’s about outcomes that last beyond handover, supporting future teams, operations and communities.
Shaping the future, not waiting for it
Tony’s work reflects what draws many people to our team: the chance to work across disciplines, regions and the full lifecycle of complex projects.
As delivery models evolve and expectations grow, resilience will only become more important. For Tony, that future is something to be shaped, not waited on.
“We’re growing every day as an organization,” he says. “When people connect, share ideas and work to a common standard, that’s when you really start to see what we’re capable of.”
