Why Keyground exists.
Most programs push land access to the back of the queue, behind design and procurement. Keyground was founded on a different reading of it: get access wrong, or late, and nothing else on the program moves.
Most land access work on major programs is split across whoever's available: a planner handling approvals, a community team handling engagement, none of them talking to each other on a fixed cadence. Gaps open between disciplines, and those gaps are exactly where programs lose time.
Keyground was founded to close that gap: one team, running strategy, investigation, negotiation, approvals, compliance and construction-phase liaison as a single accountable process, from route review through to formal close-out.
That approach is backed by our director's own background: 8 years working in land access and stakeholder engagement across some of Australia's largest underground and linear infrastructure programs, before founding Keyground.
Ahead of the critical path, not behind it.
Engage early
Identify the key stakeholders on a corridor or site early, before the program needs them identified.
Know the constraints
Map the constraints and areas that affect the project's critical path early enough for them to inform the plan, not derail it.
Plan to move construction forward
Put a plan in place that doesn't just avoid delaying construction. It brings construction forward.
Brady Millman
Keyground Consulting
Brady founded Keyground after 8 years working in land access and stakeholder engagement across some of Australia's largest underground and linear infrastructure programs.
That experience spans large, multi-stakeholder programs where land access sits directly on the critical path: securing access across complex tenure, easement and property interests; running Indigenous cultural heritage engagement and mitigation processes; and managing environmental mitigation and compliance obligations through design, approvals and construction.
He has worked directly with Traditional Owner groups, government authorities, landholders and community stakeholders to secure the third-party approvals, permits and consents needed to keep construction activity moving, without compromising on compliance. Keyground was founded to bring that same standard to programs of any scale, as a single accountable point of contact from strategy through to construction-phase close-out.