How Can an Embedded Delivery Partner Help Deliver Major Events More Efficiently?
With just 22 months and a budget a fraction of previous editions, Glasgow 2026needed a fundamentally different way to deliver this year's Commonwealth Games.
The answer was a new delivery model that brought planning, delivery and operations together under one embedded partner.
Appointed as Official Event Delivery Partner, Trivandi worked as part of the Organising Company sharing goals, ownership and accountability from strategy to live operations. This approach helped reduce duplication, speed up decision-making, and create time and cost efficiencies.
The key benefits were:
- Flexible resourcing: Keeping the core organising team lean, and bringing in specialist expertise as needed allowing the Organising Company to scale up and down to meet requirements
- Rapid mobilisation: Recruiting 250+ event specialists in 400 days through Trivandi's global network of tried and tested specialists.
- Integrated delivery: Bringing planning, PMO, overlay design and delivery, procurement, venue management and operations together within one team.
- No new venues: Our embedded overlay experts helped transform Glasgow’s existing facilities into Games-ready venues in record time, using temporary infrastructure.
- Lasting local capability: Recruiting 60% of our workforce from Scotland, developing capability through Trivandi Academy’s bespoke training programme, and transferring knowledge to future event hosts.
Glasgow 2026 showcased how major events can be delivered through a leaner, more flexible and collaborative model - opening the door for more countries and cities to host in the future.
Trivandi are true partners in delivery. As CEO of Glasgow 2026, I’ve seen first-hand their OneTeam approach, values alignment, and ability to work alongside an organising committee. They just get it - because they’ve been in our shoes.
