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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Construction Partners

The builders, trades and design teams we work alongside, from bid schedule to final account.

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Our approach

Projects go better when the plan is one everyone can defend.

We work alongside general contractors, construction managers, design-builders, specialty trades and design firms, sometimes as their embedded controls team and sometimes as the owner's independent voice. Never both on the same project. In every role the aim is the same: a baseline the parties believe and a record that will stand up later.

Contractors engage us to win work with stronger bid schedules, to tighten controls on complex scopes and to protect entitlement when delay occurs. Owners engage us for an independent view of their builders' plans. Both tend to find that a clear, shared critical path reduces conflict before it starts.

Who we work alongside

Across the delivery chain

We work within every common delivery model, with conflicts checked before we engage.

General contractorsBid, baseline and update support
Construction managersCM-at-risk and agency controls
Design-buildersIntegrated design and construction schedules
Specialty tradesMEP, electrical and process scheduling
EPC contractorsEngineering, procurement and construction integration
Design firmsDesign schedules and sequence input
Commissioning agentsSystem-based commissioning schedules
Program managersProgram and portfolio controls
The value

What our clients gain

V-01

Stronger bids

Schedules that show an evaluator real command of the work.

V-02

Fewer disputes

Transparent plans and contemporaneous records that narrow disagreements.

V-03

Cleaner interfaces

Handoffs between parties planned in the logic, not discovered in the field.

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Raise the standard together.

Technology providers, contractors and institutions: tell us what you are building and how we might raise the standard together.