Strategic Services · The Centre of Glengarra
Strategic expertise
where decisions matter.
Independent, multidisciplinary expertise applied where capital-project decisions have the greatest consequence.
Independent perspective. Deep delivery experience. Clear thinking.
Illustrative Project Intelligence
€350mInvestment
P80Schedule confidence
€11.4mForecast exposure
143Critical activities
3Decisions required
Strategic Services
Six points where we intervene.
Across the capital investment lifecycle, from the decision to invest through to recovery when a project moves off plan.
01 · Before Sanction
Build confidence before capital is committed.
We challenge scope, estimate, schedule and delivery strategy as one investment decision, not four separate conversations.
Illustrative: investment decision
Option A
€218m
31 months
Higher delivery exposure
Option B
€196m
34 months
Balanced
Option C
€184m
39 months
Lower delivery exposure
Scope maturity
Estimate confidence
Schedule confidence
Delivery risk
Recommended investment basis
Option B: €196m, 34 months
02 · Investment Confidence
Know whether the forecast can be believed.
Integrated assurance across cost, schedule and risk: tested together, not signed off in isolation.
Illustrative: project assurance position
Schedule
915 activities <20 days float
Cost
€296m
Current EAC
→ €307m P80 exposure
Risk
12Material risks
3Critical decisions
03 · Independent Challenge
An objective view of where the project really stands.
A repeatable, rapidly deployable review method that looks underneath the reported position, not a repeat of it.
Illustrative: independent project diagnostic
Scope
Cost
Schedule
Risk
Governance
Delivery
Finding 07 of 12
Schedule
Current completion forecast does not adequately reflect commissioning interface risk.
Implication Mechanical completion and CQV are being sequenced as independent workstreams when they are not. The reported date assumes a handover that hasn’t been tested.
04 · Structure & Control
Put the right decisions in the right place.
Governance is a decision architecture, not a layer of bureaucracy.
Illustrative: decision system
- 01 Information
- 02 Recommendation
- 03 Authority
- 04 Decision: 2 decisions >30 days
- 05 Action
7Decisions pending
€14.2mCapital exposed
The issue
The system stalls between authority and decision, not between recommendation and authority.
05 · Recovery & Uplift
Turn insight into measurable improvement.
We identify where a project has drifted, then help turn that insight into action.
Illustrative: intervention waterfall
Base forecast
€312m
Scope challenge
−€8.4m
Procurement
−€3.7m
Delivery strategy
−€5.1m
Risk adjustment
+€2.2m
Revised forecast
€297m
Net opportunity
€15m
06 · Recurring Proposition
Independent oversight that stays with the programme.
For major programmes and portfolios, Glengarra remains alongside leadership as capital continues to be deployed: as recurring oversight, periodic assurance at key decision points, or event-driven intervention when something changes.
Illustrative: capital portfolio
€941m under active review across four programmes.
Programme A
€420m
Programme B
€185m
Gate: schedule confidence below threshold
Programme C
€96m
Programme D
€240m
Review: cost trending against plan
2Interventions live
1Investment decision
Two of four programmes require intervention this quarter.
Management Intelligence
From project data to management decision.
Illustrative: management view
Project Position: October
Cost
€296.4m EAC
↑ €3.2m period movement
Schedule
92.8% actual
98.2% planned · −5.4% variance
Risk
€18.6m P80 exposure
↑ €2.1m
Delivery
218 / 404 MC achieved
Attention required
Three things leadership needs to know
01
Completion risk is increasingly concentrated in electrical termination and I/O testing.
02
32% of remaining activities now carry less than 20 days float.
03
Forecast cost increased €3.2m this period, primarily driven by piping and schedule assurance.
Strategy. Results.
It’s Our Nature.
Complex projects reward the ability to see both the detail and the whole: knowing when to go deeper, when to step back, and when enough is known to decide and move.
That’s where Glengarra is at its best.
Bring us the project before the answer is obvious.
Bring us an investment you’re shaping, a delivery strategy you want tested, or a project under pressure. We’d like to hear about the challenge.