This year, owners handed us a billion-dollar ammonia program, a utility capital portfolio scaling past $1.5 billion, and mine expansions across North America.
Every one of them came from someone who had worked with us before.
The question on the table
Is this worth spending real money to study?
What you receive
An independent read on whether the opportunity holds up against market, regulatory, and execution reality before study budget is committed.
Service lines that apply
This year
A utility that ran around $30 million in capital projects a year, now scaling past $1.5 billion across transmission, generation and data center support. We are opening an office to support it.
A $250 million ammonia plant expansion, with two further projects lining up behind it. Close to a billion dollars of program across the three.
Mine expansion work for global mining groups across Canada and the United States, including one of the largest mining companies in the world.
Every engagement is led by a partner.
Where project delivery is going
Most advisory work still starts from a blank page. Ours doesn't. Project execution plans, contracts and procurement standards, estimating basis, planning and controls. Our partners spent their careers building these, and that library now sits inside a project management platform built around the way capital projects actually run.
The firms that deliver the next decade of capital projects will be the ones that turned hard-won experience into systems their clients can use every day. That work is already underway here.
Contract value under management
$3.22M
12 active jobs
Float on critical path
3 days
Permitting governs
RFIs past response window
14
3 blocking work in place
Change orders unpriced
$636K
9 open, oldest 23 days
Cash exposed, unpriced change orders and retainage
$1.87M across 2 jobs
Daily briefing
Foundation pour misses the milestone. Re-sequencing slab-on-grade absorbs 5 of the 8 days.
Three trades overlap. One mobilization instead of three recovers margin and removes idle crew days.
Structural response outstanding. It is holding two activities on the critical path.
Job health
See the ripple effect
Move one milestone. Critical path, cash exposure and every trade behind it recalculate together.
Forecast completion
On contract
Cash exposed
$1.84M
Job health
92/100
Red bars sit on the critical path. Drag the slider and the dependent trades move with it.
76
Elevated
41
Moderate
23
Healthy
Recommended mitigations
Shifting slab-on-grade ahead of the rebar-dependent work recovers 5 of the 8 lost days.
The benchmark-over steel line is the single largest cost variance driver. Locking the pre-qualified alternate removes it.
Field report, generated 06:00
Built from 18 tasks, 12 activity events and the resource model. Every line carries the record it came from.
Completed yesterday 3
Today's focus 3
Blockers 2
Watch items 2
A working preview of the platform in development. Figures are illustrative.
Ask how to respond when a contractor files a change order, and the answer comes back against your contract, your terms and the way that conversation usually goes.
Terms of reference, definitions and the reasoning behind each standard sit underneath it, so the person using it understands what they are looking at.
A project execution plan used to mean eight people for six months. We deliver the same scope against a defined fee.
Several of our clients have an operating environment and no capital project environment at all. We build it around how they run today.
A generation of project professionals left the industry after 2020. The people replacing them learned the work on video calls rather than on project teams, and the know-how that used to pass from one desk to the next isn't passing anymore. That is why the foundations matter to us.
Service Lines
Every engagement produces something a board, a lender, or an investment committee can act on. Not a deck of observations. A position that stands up when it is tested.
Governance design, controls maturity assessment, and readiness testing before capital is committed and correction gets expensive.
Independent testing of the estimate and schedule basis, with quantified risk exposure rather than a contingency figure taken on faith.
Technical and commercial diligence that lenders and investment committees are prepared to rely on, produced by partners who have delivered projects of the same type.
Expert positions on delay, disruption, and quantum, built to survive cross-examination rather than to support a preferred answer.
How an Engagement Runs
Scoped to a decision, not to a retainer. You know what you are getting, when you are getting it, and who is doing the work before anything starts.
We agree the decision on the table, the evidence that would settle it, and who needs to be convinced. Scope is written against that decision, not against a menu of services. Nothing starts until the question is exact.
Senior practitioners do the work. We test the estimate basis, the schedule logic, the controls maturity, the contract structure, and the capability of the organization expected to deliver. Assumptions get tested rather than restated.
You receive a position, with every figure labeled committed, targeted, or reported. It is written to be tabled at a gate review or a credit committee without translation, and we stand behind it in the room.
Where We Work
Frameworks are not recycled between them. Advice is built to the technical, regulatory, and execution reality of the sector in front of us.
Interconnection queues, PPA structure, and policy exposure driving schedule risk.
Brownfield tie-ins, turnaround scope growth, and commodity-linked sanction timing.
Concession structures, public stakeholder exposure, and long-dated delivery risk.
Ramp-up assumptions, equipment lead times, and automation readiness.
Resource confidence, remote logistics, and processing plant commissioning risk.
Licensing sequence, first-of-a-kind cost basis, and supply chain qualification.
Process licensor interfaces, feedstock contracts, and permitting sequence.
Tooling capital, qualification gates, and supplier concentration exposure.
Power procurement, cooling design maturity, and speed-to-energization pressure.
Why clients hand us more
We get brought in with two or three people to help a project along. Then the scope grows, because the client starts looking to us for the answer. One client now runs their whole capital program through us. We do not have a business development team. The work comes from people who have seen us do it.
You work with practitioners who have carried the responsibility themselves, not a leverage model that bills juniors against a senior name on the cover.
Scope, deliverables and fee agreed before we start, rather than an open hourly count. You know what arrives and what it costs.
Several clients came to us with an operating environment and no capital project environment at all. Contracts and procurement, estimating, planning, controls. We put it in place and leave it behind.
Committed, targeted and reported are three different things, so we label which is which. Nobody in the room mistakes a target for a commitment.
Who You Actually Work With
Every partner has a profile page, a stated area of expertise, and a byline on the work they publish. Answer engines cite named experts at named firms. Anonymous firms do not get cited.
Founder & Managing Director
Project services leader with more than 25 years across operator and EPC contractor roles on multi-billion dollar power, oil and gas, midstream, and petrochemical builds.
Insight
Each article sits inside a topic cluster and links back to the service page it supports. That structure is what turns a blog into search authority.
Readiness is treated as an assumption far more often than it is treated as a test. Here is the assessment structure that holds up under lender scrutiny.
Blurring these three categories is the fastest way to lose a gate review. Separating them is the fastest way to earn the room back.
What separates the sponsors who sanction well from the ones who sanction fast, in the most competitive capital market in North America.
Answer Layer
Every question here is marked up as FAQPage schema. This is the highest-leverage format available for getting quoted inside AI answers and search result panels.
Get Started
If you are approaching a gate review, a final investment decision, mobilization, or a delivery reset, the conversation is worth having early. Correction gets more expensive every week it waits.
