Insights.

Practical thinking on project delivery, cost management, technology, and the sectors we serve.

Delivery Model

A new age of Projecting.

Britain's great infrastructure was built by Projectors: people accountable for the whole. The fragmented model replaced them. The conditions for a new Projecting Age are now in place, and the delivery model to match it already exists.

7 min read

Cost Management

Cost management is part of project management. The industry forgot that.

The construction industry separated PM and QS into two firms, two systems, and two reporting cycles. That structural decision has been costing clients money for decades. Here is why, and what genuine project control looks like.

6 min read

Technology

What real time project visibility actually means, and why it matters.

Most clients receive a monthly report. By the time it lands, the information is three weeks old. We explore what genuine real time visibility looks like, and the decisions it enables that retrospective reporting simply cannot.

5 min read

Public Sector

Preparing for public sector framework applications: what you need to know.

Public sector frameworks represent a significant and relatively accessible route to contract for specialist consultancies. We outline the key frameworks relevant to project management and cost consultancy, and what a credible application requires.

8 min read

Procurement

The 20th century playbook.

If a consultancy's first move on a complex project is to recommend an all-risk, lump sum, single stage tender, the recommendation is not really about the project. It is about the firm.

6 min read

Procurement

Why the procurement route decides everything else.

The recommendation lands as advice. The conclusion was fixed before the conversation began. The pattern that produces it is the most expensive thing on most capital projects.

6 min read

Contract Administration

The contract is now auditable.

The duty of impartial administration has been settled law for fifty years. The cost of proving a breach used to be prohibitive. It is no longer, and the consequences for the firms whose model depends on the audit cost staying high are about to become visible.

6 min read

Commercial Management

The fee cycle around the project.

Most capital projects are two engagements dressed up as one. The construction itself, and the fee cycle around it. The second engagement is rarely named, and the client is paying for it whether they realise it or not.

6 min read

Industry

The industry we are running down.

Sustainability is not a green report. It is whether the trades, the graduates and the experienced people will still be in this industry in twenty years' time. Every procurement decision is a vote for one model or the other.

7 min read

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