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Contractors Spent a Decade Improving Escalation Clauses, but the Problem Underneath Remains Unnoticed

Escalation clauses used to be rare. Now they show up in almost every contract involving a volatile material. They are negotiated line by line, tied to published indexes, and carefully capped and structured. The industry got good at this. Legal teams argue over which index applies. Estimators set trigger points. Owners and contractors negotiate exactly …

De-Risking Large U.S. Capital Projects Through Integrated Delivery

Practical strategies to improve schedule certainty, cost control, and operational readiness. Large U.S. capital projects are increasingly missing schedule, cost, and startup targets, not due to a lack of technical capability, but because execution remains fragmented across engineering, procurement, logistics, construction, and operations. Rising supply-chain volatility, labor constraints, tariff uncertainty, and long-lead equipment delays have …