What execution readiness actually tests, and why most FID packages skip it
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.
Insight
Written by the peopledoing the work.
Analysis on execution readiness, cost and schedule discipline, and the capital decisions that cannot be reversed cheaply. Every article carries a byline and sits inside a topic cluster that links back to the work it supports.
Capital discipline
Committed, targeted, reported: the three words that decide whether a board trusts your number
Blurring these three categories is the fastest way to lose a gate review. Separating them is the fastest way to earn the room back.
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Capital discipline in Houston energy and industrial markets
What separates the sponsors who sanction well from the ones who sanction fast, in the most competitive capital market in North America.
Read the articleCost and estimating
Contingency set by percentage is not contingency
A number carried at ten percent because ten percent is what was carried last time tells you nothing about the confidence level you are funding.
Read the articleDiligence
The five gate questions, from a private equity seat
A sponsor approaching a phase gate and a fund running diligence are doing the same work. Same questions, same gaps, same cost if the answer is wrong.
Read the articleProject controls
Earned value that reflects installed work, not invoiced work
The gap between what has been billed and what is physically in the ground is where most delivery surprises are hiding.
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Speed to energization is the only data center schedule that matters
Power procurement and interconnection now govern the critical path on most data center developments. Everything else has float by comparison.
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The experience is leaving the industry. What that costs an owner
A generation of project professionals left after 2020, and the know-how that used to pass from one desk to the next is not passing anymore.
Read the articleDisputes
Building a delay position that survives cross-examination
Entitlement, causation and quantum are three separate arguments. Most claims fail because they were only built to make one of them.
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Contractor capacity, long-lead equipment, permitting movement and the decisions they change. Written for people who carry the capital risk.
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