What Is the Project Delivery Guide?

IPA’s Project Delivery Guide (PDG) is a comprehensive end-to-end advisory solution to guide companies through the formidable journey of planning and executing a large, complex industrial project. We serve as your partner throughout the project lifecycle, providing expert project management advisory, analysis, training, and coaching based on 35+ years of research and learning on 23,000+ capital projects. Whether your project is a several hundred million or multi-billion-dollar investment, we guide you through project planning and development, risk management, team staffing, contracting strategy selection, cost and schedule estimating, and more to maximize your return on investment.

Key Benefits

You will receive data-driven insights and expert guidance through all the vital activities required to develop a business opportunity into a fully funded capital project that delivers on its business objectives:

• Solicit and hire a well-qualified project director and staff the optimal project team
• Establish a common work process for the team
• Complete an early project viability assessment to mitigate future risk
• Set data-driven and realistic early cost & schedule targets
• Leverage the known Best Practices that drive superior outcomes for complex projects
• Develop a Front-End Loading (FEL) project development plan and mitigate risks throughout FEL
• Select and successfully implement a project-specific contracting strategy
• Develop a fit-for-purpose project execution plan (PEP)
• Start construction at the right time and keep the project on track for a smooth transition to operations

Our Data-Driven Solutions

Large capital investments can make or break a business. Our step-by-step process sets your project on the path to success from the outset and keeps it on track as the project evolves. A dedicated IPA engagement lead serves as your partner throughout the project lifecycle to ensure continuity across the service offerings (see chart below):

Megaprojects Present Mega Risks

Large, complex projects are significantly on the rise as startups, junior miners, investment firms, and a myriad of other companies rush to bring green energy, high-demand metals, specialty chemicals, and other products to market quickly. Major integrated energy firms with established project organizations have a poor track record of success on industrial megaprojects with a 65% failure rate equating to billions of dollars in overruns, lengthy delays, and poor operability. The odds of success are even lower for smaller companies with far less experience and far fewer resources.

Why IPA?

IPA has been the world’s leading advisory firm on capital effectiveness since 1987. We work with capital intensive companies in the Fortune Global 500 and other companies across all industrial sectors. Detailed data gathered directly from project teams are the starting point for IPA’s methodology and drive our deep knowledge of what makes capital project and project systems successful. Our unmatched database contains 23,000+ projects ranging from US$100,000 to US$40 billion, featuring more than 21 million data points.