Shubham Galav

As Deputy Director of the Project Research Division (PRD) for the Cost Group, Shubham is responsible for the continued development of IPA’s cost products, advancing cost engineering research and ensuring continuous improvement of its cost normalization infrastructure and tools. Shubham oversees a team of research analysts who are responsible for developing and maintaining the IPA cost and productivity models that measure capital project performance and forecasting cost trends in the industry. His team also conducts research into Best Practices within the cost engineering industry for capital projects. He is also responsible for IPA’s Cost Engineering Committee (CEC) and Upstream Cost Engineering Committee (UCEC), in which members gain access to tools, metrics, and research on the topics of cost estimating, scheduling, and project controls.

Since joining IPA in 2012, Shubham has worked on a range of research studies for IPA clients and IPA conferences. As Research Team Lead for the Cost Engineering Group, he led the UCEC and delivered several cost-related services, including cost and schedule risk analyses, detailed cost analyses, estimate quality reviews, and client-funded research studies. He designed and delivered research and developed products that identified and mitigated capital project risks. He led research projects as the principal investigator, performing research design, execution, and delivery of results to clients. He developed cost analysis benchmarking methodologies and tools to improve the efficiency of analysis.

Shubham has a BS in Mining Machinery Engineering from the Indian School of Mines in Dhanbad, India, and an MS in Petroleum Engineering from Texas Tech University in Lubbock, Texas.