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Risk Management · May 2026 · 8 min

Pricing risk: why your contingency line is lying to you.

Most construction contingencies are negotiated, not engineered. Here's how to build a defensible, quantitative risk envelope your stakeholders will trust.

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Delivery Strategy · Apr 2026

Choosing a delivery model when nothing is standard anymore.

Design-bid-build, CMAR, IPD, progressive design-build — the choice has consequences. A framework for picking the right model for your project profile.

6 min read

Cost Control · Mar 2026

The first 90 days: cost controls that actually hold.

By the end of the third month, the controls you didn't put in place are already costing you. A practical checklist for owners and GCs.

5 min read

Industry Trends · Feb 2026

Labor, lead times and the new normal of escalation pricing.

What the past 18 months of material and labor volatility taught us about pricing future capital programs.

7 min read

Project Recovery · Jan 2026

Anatomy of a project recovery: the first 30 days.

When a project is in distress, the first month determines whether it's a turnaround or a write-down. Here's the playbook we run.

9 min read

Operations · Dec 2025

Building a PMO that field teams actually use.

A PMO is only as good as its adoption. Five design choices that decide whether yours becomes infrastructure or a slide deck.

6 min read

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Strategic thinking from our advisory practice.