Owner-side capital-project advisory

Owner-side delivery advisory

Clear findings for your next delivery decision.

A delivery constraint or critical transition needs focused attention. We assess the agreed evidence and provide findings and recommendations to your accountable management team. The advisory review can address project controls, engineering evidence, construction interfaces, commissioning readiness or operational handover.

Discuss your delivery decision

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Responsibilities and boundaries

TPM is responsible for the agreed advisory work and outputs. The client's accountable management retains project decisions, delivery and operating responsibility. The core engagement excludes design, engineering sign-off, design certification, construction management, EPC execution and asset operation.

Findings are assessments and recommendations for management to consider and act on. They are not a direction to contractors, an acceptance certificate or authorization to commission or operate an asset. We do not guarantee recovery, completion dates or project performance.

A focused advisory review

Start with the decision or question.

You may need to understand conflicting engineering or vendor information, cost and schedule assumptions, completion evidence or the readiness of a planned handover. We agree the question your management team needs answered, the review boundary and the evidence available.

Agree the advisory scope

Question and boundary: The decision, asset, workstream or transition to assess.
Inputs: Relevant records, context and discussions with your accountable representatives.
Outputs: The assessment, recommendations and advisory readout to be provided.
Responsibilities: TPM's advisory work, the client manager receiving it and the appointed parties responsible for decisions and implementation.
Completion: The agreed readout, explanation of limitations and record of open questions passed to client management.

The relevant reviewers, availability, timing and fees are confirmed for the agreed scope. An advisory engagement can address one discipline or transition; it does not assign TPM operational control of that workstream.

What the advisory review covers

Possible written outputs are agreed for each engagement.
Owner question	Advisory assessment	Possible written output
Which engineering or vendor interfaces remain unresolved?	Review the relevant evidence and responsibility assumptions.	Findings on the interface gaps and recommendations for client management to address them.
Do cost, schedule and scope describe the same delivery basis?	Examine the relevant controls records, assumptions and inconsistencies.	A written assessment of material gaps and recommended management actions.
Does completion evidence support the planned commissioning transition?	Assess the available completion records and unresolved transition questions.	A transition-readiness assessment with assumptions, limitations and recommendations.
What remains uncertain before operational handover?	Assess turnover evidence, acceptance assumptions and proposed receiving responsibilities.	Findings and open questions for the client's accountable management team.

The review examines evidence and advises management. Your appointed teams direct, coordinate and implement the response.

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Experience relevant to this decision

Our practitioners' career experience spans project controls, engineering and technical assurance, quality, construction, commissioning and operational readiness. That experience informs how we assess the connections between reported progress, supporting evidence and the owner's next decision.

The experience described here was gained by team members in their individual careers.

The disciplines used in your advisory review are agreed for the engagement.

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A delivery advisory readoutIllustrative example — fictional project

Illustrative example — fictional project. No actual TPM engagement or result is represented.

Owner decision: The owner needs a clearer view of the evidence and actions for a construction-to-commissioning transition.

Evidence gap: The available completion summary does not reconcile with the turnover-record list.
Management decision affected: Whether management has enough evidence to assess the agreed transition boundary.
TPM recommendation: Recommend that client management direct its appointed team to reconcile the records and return the evidence for review.
Advisory readout record: Record the client manager receiving the advice, the evidence gap and the decision still required; update findings if further evidence is supplied.

Illustrative readout: Client management decides and directs the response. The contractor and commissioning team retain their delivery responsibilities; the owner retains the transition decision.

This demonstrates advisory reasoning without inventing a successful outcome. The readout is not a commissioning procedure, acceptance certificate, startup authorization or evidence of a completed TPM engagement.

Questions owners ask

Can the review address one discipline or transition?

We agree a focused review boundary, the relevant evidence and suitable advisory expertise before accepting the engagement. The work can be scoped around the specific question your management team needs answered, subject to reviewer availability.

How does the advice fit our EPC and operating arrangements?

We provide the agreed findings and recommendations to your accountable management team. Your team decides the response and directs appointed contractors, vendors and operators through its existing arrangements. Their responsibilities remain with them.

Start with your decision

Discuss your delivery decision.

Email three things: project stage, delivery decision or concern, timing that matters.

Keep the first message at a high level and send no confidential attachments. We discuss the advisory boundary and confirm suitable reviewers, availability and any conflicts. Inputs, outputs, timing, fees and evidence-sharing arrangements are agreed before work begins.

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