RichardBarkleyProject Controls & Capital Advisory
2.0 — WHAT WE DO

6 practices.
49 services.

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2.03 · 7 services

Owner's Advisory & Assurance

Independent senior counsel for owners, boards and investors, from investment decision through recovery and handover.

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2.05 · 5 services

Controls Intelligence

Power BI, executive analytics and forecasting that give capital leaders decision-grade foresight.

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2.06 · 6 services

The Barkley Institute

Practitioner-taught courses and executive education in P6, scheduling, controls and delay analysis.

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Featured practice

Command of the critical path.

1.0 — WHO WE ARE

Independent. Senior. Decisive.

The controls partner owners call when the date cannot move.

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3.0 — MARKETS

Sector fluency. One standard.

We know where each sector hides its schedule risk.

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4.0 — PROJECTS

Representative work. Every client confidential.

60 featured projects across 17 sectors. Every client confidential.

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7.0 — INSIGHTS

Decision-grade thinking.

Field notes, papers and briefings for the people who fund and build.

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9.0 — CAREERS

Do the most consequential work of your career.

For planners, cost engineers and analysts who want their judgment to matter.

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Market 3.04 · IndustrialREF 3.04

Industrial, controlled at EPC depth.

Process plants, heavy industry and infrastructure-scale facilities, where engineering, procurement and construction overlap by design.

FIG. 01 — Industrial, controlled at EPC depth.
Market3.04
Pressures3
Key services7
SectorIndustrial
Data date
StatusActive
The market

Industrial programs reward teams that measure what is real.

Industrial construction stacks risk on risk: engineering still maturing as steel goes up, custom equipment sourced across continents, piping and instrumentation quantities in the tens of thousands, and productivity that moves with weather, labor and logistics. Reported percent complete is easy to inflate; earned progress is not.

We bring EPC-grade controls to owners and contractors alike. Engineering, procurement and construction run in one integrated schedule. Progress is measured by rules of credit against installed quantities, earned value tells the truth about productivity, and system-based completion drives commissioning so startup arrives when the business case assumed.

Risk register

What keeps industrial leaders awake

We know the specific risks of this market, because we have stood inside them.

RISK-01

EPC interdependence

Engineering, procurement and construction running in parallel, each one waiting on information from the others.

RISK-02

Objective progress

Thousands of installed quantities that must be measured consistently to give a forecast anyone can rely on.

RISK-03

Startup readiness

System turnover that must align with commissioning and operations, not with whatever area construction finished last.

In industrial work, the schedule has to be engineered with the same care as the plant.
Our conviction in Industrial
RFI log · questions answered

What leaders ask us first.

Straight answers. If yours isn't logged here, raise it with us directly. A principal will respond.

Do you support EPC and EPCM delivery?

Yes. We plan and control engineering, procurement and construction as one program, for owners, EPC contractors and EPCM managers.

How do you measure progress on an industrial project?

Through agreed rules of credit and installed-quantity tracking. That gives an objective view of physical progress, which then drives earned value, productivity analysis and forecasts.

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Other markets

3.05

Manufacturing

Advanced manufacturing, automotive, battery and gigafactory programs, where the business case depends on the start of production.

3.06

Distribution Centers

Fulfillment centers, logistics hubs and cold storage, delivered in compressed, repeatable programs across regions.

3.07

Healthcare

Hospitals, medical centers and research facilities, built and renovated around the care they deliver.

3.08

Pharmaceutical

Life sciences manufacturing, laboratories and GMP facilities, where the schedule answers to regulators as well as owners.

3.09

Semiconductor

Fabs, cleanrooms and advanced packaging facilities, among the most complex and capital-intensive buildings attempted anywhere.

3.10

Food & Beverage

Processing plants, bottling, cold chain and line expansions for brands that cannot afford an empty shelf.

3.11

Transportation

Highways, bridges, transit and rail programs funded by the public and watched by it.

3.12

Aviation

Terminals, airside works, hangars and modernization programs delivered without grounding operations.

3.13

Water & Wastewater

Treatment plants, conveyance and resilience programs that protect public health and answer to regulators and funders.

3.14

Power

Generation, transmission, renewables and storage, where commercial operation dates are written into offtake and financing.

3.15

Oil & Gas

Upstream, midstream and downstream projects, turnarounds and brownfield work in demanding environments.

3.16

Government

Federal, state and municipal programs that demand transparency, compliance and accountability for every dollar.

3.01

Data Centers

Hyperscale, colocation and AI campuses, where a slipped energization date is capacity a customer has already contracted for.

3.02

Mission Critical

Network hubs, operations centers, emergency services and secure facilities that must stay live while they are built, upgraded or replaced.

3.03

Commercial

Office towers, mixed-use, hospitality and retail, where an opening date sits inside leases, loan covenants and a sales launch.

The next step

Command the date you announced.

Book a 45-minute program review with a senior principal. You will leave with an independent read of where your schedule and cost really stand, and the three moves that matter most.