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Owner's Advisory & Assurance

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

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The Barkley Institute

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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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Decision-grade thinking.

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Do the most consequential work of your career.

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

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Residential · New ConstructionCompleted 2024

Riverside Residential Towers

Thousands of families planned their lives around handover dates. Those dates had to be real.

LocationHo Chi Minh City, Vietnam
ClientConfidential
LocationHo Chi Minh City, Vietnam
SectorResidential
Value$380M
Size1,614,600 sq ft
DeliveryDesign-Build
Duration36 months
StatusCompleted 2024
Why it mattered

High-rise and mixed-use work runs on rhythm. Hold the floor cycle and the building rises; lose it and every trade behind pays for the slip.

The challenge

A residential developer built riverside towers with thousands of homes, and buyers had been given handover dates at the point of sale.

Facade, fit-out and MEP trades had to stack efficiently floor by floor. A break in trade flow on one floor would ripple upward through every unit above it.

Schedule at a glance

The whole program, on one line.

Start to finish, as the schedule tells it. For work still in progress, the bar moves with today's data date.

StartJul 2021
Duration36 months
HandoverJul 2024
Progress—
Set the cycleStack the tradesPrice change in timeHand over in sequence
How we held the date

Our approach, phase by phase.

The same disciplined sequence we bring to every engagement, shaped around what this project needed most.

PHASE 01PHASE 02PHASE 03PHASE 04
PHASE 01Set the cycle

A floor-cycle-driven schedule for structure, facade and services.

PHASE 02Stack the trades

Trade flow planned floor by floor so crews stay productive and out of each other's way.

PHASE 03Price change in time

Design changes assessed for time impact before they are approved.

PHASE 04Hand over in sequence

Residences, offices and retail handed over in a planned order.

What changed

The difference we made

Measured the only way that matters: whether the date and the budget held.

Result 01Keys on the dates given

Homes were handed over in the sequence buyers had been told at sale.

Result 02Crews never idle

Resource-loaded trade stacking kept facade, MEP and fit-out crews moving upward without waiting on each other.

Result 03Defects caught in the cycle

Inspections sat inside each floor's cycle, so snagging did not pile up at handover.

Your program, under command

Make your program the next one we land.

Tell us what you are building and the date your board expects. In one senior-led review you will know what it will take to hold it.