Presentations

The selection of an appropriate project delivery method constitutes a foundational strategic decision that dictates the trajectory, risk profile, commercial alignment, and ultimate success of major capital projects. Historically, the global engineering and construction sectors have relied heavily on deterministic selection frameworks—such as those pioneered by t ...

This paper introduces the Adaptive Project Delivery Framework (APDF) as a governance and intelligence operating layer designed to address a structural mismatch that existing frameworks have not resolved: the application of governance systems designed for predictable, sequential execution to project environments that behave as complex adaptive systems. The contrib ...

Owner capability, not contractor skill or contract form, is the primary determinant of capital project outcomes. Gary Fischer of the Project Production Institute made that bold claim and asked every owner: are you a buyer, configuring options, or a builder, living in the thousands of decisions a custom asset requires? The core case: an LNG development whose five- ...

Production systems subject to variability always suffer a degradation in performance as variability will get absorbed by three kinds of buffers, inventory-, time-, and capacity buffers, in some combination. If buffers are not intentionally designed-in, variability will likely result in inventory build-up and time delays. However, the size and location of these th ...

Capital projects frequently use uncertainty, randomness and variability as interchangeable explanations for schedule and cost deviation. Operations Science (OS) requires sharper and additional distinctions because these terms describe different mathematical and managerial problems. Uncertainty concerns incomplete knowledge about future states; randomness concern ...

Project schedules are the dominant tool for planning, coordinating, and reporting project progress against a baseline. Built on the Critical Path Method, they are not designed to describe production system behavior. This paper provides a technical decomposition of both project schedules and production system models by examining the inputs each requires, the assum ...

Rates and ratios are used extensively throughout the engineering and construction industry, but the terms are often associated with commercial, financial, or administrative measures such as labor rates, equipment rates, billing rates, overhead rates, cost expenditure rates, productivity factors, time on tools ratio, and other project management measurements. Whi ...

The massive, planned investments by AI companies for Data Centers will require very large amounts of matching reliable and low-carbon power. With power grids constrained and plans to transition to clean energy, nuclear power is being actively considered for this role. Large nuclear power plants are currently very costly and are slow to construct. AI Data Center d ...