Perspectives on capital projects and contracts

Short, practical notes for the people who sanction, deliver, and contract for major projects.

Most projects that struggle in execution showed warning signs at sanction. Five of them can be checked in a week.

A contractor's completed projects hold the most useful benchmark it will ever have. Few use it.

Change orders and claims turn on one question: does the contract describe the project that is actually being built?

Facing a major capital decision?

A short, confidential discussion is the quickest way to see whether independent evidence would help.