Owner's Advisory & Assurance
Senior, conflict-free advisory for owners, boards and investors who need an advocate in the room and the truth on the table.
Independent counsel for decisions that carry capital.
The decisions that shape a capital program are often taken in rooms with no one who has built anything: investment committees, boards, steering groups. Owners carry risk on work they cannot see into, and rely on designers and contractors whose commercial interests will never quite match their own.
RichardBarkley puts experienced, independent counsel on the owner's side of the table. We represent you on site and in the boardroom, design governance that makes sound decisions faster, test whether what you are being told is true and step in with composure when a program falters. We sell no equipment, take no software commissions and work for one party only. Our only interest is your outcome.
The contractor has a team of specialists. So should the owner.
Builders arrive with schedulers, cost engineers and claims advisors protecting their position. Owners deserve the same depth, answering only to them.
Independence
No equipment margins, no software commissions and no loyalty but to the client.
Seniority
Advisors who have led programs and sat in the steering committee, not only studied them.
Candor
The difficult finding delivered early, with evidence and a way forward.
Advocacy
Your position represented firmly, fairly and every working day.
7 ways we protect the owner's position
Engage a single service, or the whole practice as an integrated team. Every line is led by a senior practitioner.
Owner leadership
2 servicesSenior owner's representation that protects budget, schedule and quality from procurement through design, construction and occupancy.
2.03.02Capital Project AdvisoryIndependent advice on investment decisions: feasibility, delivery strategy, risk and value, before the money is committed and the date is announced.
Governance & assurance
3 servicesDecision rights, thresholds, stage gates and steering forums that keep capital programs accountable, transparent and moving.
2.03.04Project AssuranceIndependent assurance reviews that test program health, controls and readiness for sponsors, boards and lenders.
2.03.06Project Readiness AssessmentsStructured assessments of readiness to tender, to build, to commission or to operate, completed before the costly commitment is made.
Review & recovery
2 servicesObjective, senior reviews of baseline and update schedules for owners, lenders and sponsors who need confidence in the dates they are relying on.
2.03.05Project RecoveryDecisive intervention for distressed projects: stabilize, diagnose, re-baseline and lead the program back to a date stakeholders believe.
Advice is worth most when acting on it is still cheap. Our job is to make sure you hear it then.The Barkley standard
Markets this practice serves
3.07Healthcare
Hospitals, medical centers and research facilities, built and renovated around the care they deliver.
3.03Commercial
Office towers, mixed-use, hospitality and retail, where an opening date sits inside leases, loan covenants and a sales launch.
3.01Data Centers
Hyperscale, colocation and AI campuses, where a slipped energization date is capacity a customer has already contracted for.
3.12Aviation
Terminals, airside works, hangars and modernization programs delivered without grounding operations.
3.16Government
Federal, state and municipal programs that demand transparency, compliance and accountability for every dollar.
3.08Pharmaceutical
Life sciences manufacturing, laboratories and GMP facilities, where the schedule answers to regulators as well as owners.
3.05Manufacturing
Advanced manufacturing, automotive, battery and gigafactory programs, where the business case depends on the start of production.
3.13Water & Wastewater
Treatment plants, conveyance and resilience programs that protect public health and answer to regulators and funders.
Forensic Delay & Claims
Delay analysis, entitlement and expert opinion built to be tested, and to hold.
Controls Intelligence
Power BI, executive analytics and forecasting that give capital leaders decision-grade foresight.
The Barkley Institute
Practitioner-taught courses and executive education in P6, scheduling, controls and delay analysis.
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.