On a five-year capital project, a 4% annual escalation rate compounded across the spend curve can shift the total installed cost by 15–20%…
Cost contingency on capital projects is usually presented as the answer to a single question: how much extra money should we hold against u…
Every cost estimate for a capital project tells you what the project is expected to cost. Only the estimate basis memorandum tells you why.…
The cost baseline is the reference point for everything a project team does after sanction. Every variance report, every forecast, every ex…
Cost estimating has always been an exercise in structured judgment — turning incomplete information into defensible numbers. For decades, t…
Every capital project runs on two parallel hierarchies. The project team works to a Work Breakdown Structure — a deliverable-oriented break…
A cost report that no one reads is worse than no cost report at all. It consumes time to produce, creates a false sense of oversight, and b…
On a large capital project, it is entirely possible to be within budget at month six and still be heading for a significant cost overrun at…
Learn the difference between CapEx and OpEx and how lifecycle cost analysis helps evaluate total project economics.