Capital Planning & Construction Advisory

capabilities

• Capital Planning Due Diligence

  The Capital Planning process is multifaceted, and owners and developers need extensive program and project plans. Exponent assists in the preparation of the overall program/project plan, providing an independent assessment of its integrity and feasibility, or evaluating select components of the plan.

• Project Risk Assessments

  Every construction project presents a unique set of challenges and risks. To identify the appropriate level of risk tolerance for each venture, Exponent consultants tailor their project risk and opportunity assessments to suit the level of detail and specific needs of each project.

• Capital Project Readiness Assessment

  Assessing whether you're ready to begin construction goes a long way toward success, from considering your motives and defining your desired outcomes to outlining resource needs and evaluating your financial capacity to complete the project on schedule. Exponent's construction consultants can guide your internal team through a thorough capital project readiness assessment designed to highlight your opportunities, capabilities, deficiencies, and resources, and provide valuable insights and takeaways that enable you to move forward with confidence.

• Process and Controls Improvement

  From estimating and managing costs to scheduled development and monitoring to risk and change management, Exponent's sophisticated understanding of project controls ensures a tailored assessment of project needs and careful management of every component and phase of the project lifecycle.

• Budgeting and Estimating

  Reasonable budgets and estimates are an essential element of an effective capital plan and a successful construction program or project. Exponent has over 50 years' experience in helping clients develop budgets for projects of all sizes and provides independent assessments of client budgets, concurrently identifying project risks and uncertainties to ensure budgeted contingencies.

• Capital Cost Projections

  Before construction begins, capital project owners must reasonably calculate the cost of all tangible and intangible expenses — from land, project equipment, and building materials to legal fees and operating costs. For five decades, Exponent construction consultants have worked closely with project owners to forecast capital costs, help clients estimate project costs and profits, assess potential financial risks, and investigate ways to decrease overall spending.

• Critical Path Method (CPM) Schedule Preparation and Review

  Exponent's professionals have extensive experience preparing, maintaining, reviewing, and managing project schedules using critical path method (CPM) techniques. Exponent provides experienced schedule preparation and review services to ensure that schedules comply with contract specifications as well as project requirements and are leveraged as effective management tools.

• Probabilistic Modeling

  Advanced risk modeling techniques, including probabilistic, enterprise, 4D, and 5D scheduling enable project stakeholders to identify, quantify, and mitigate project risks during the pre-construction phase, when the impacts of recognized issues are most easily assuaged. Exponent provides risk modeling, scheduling, and clash-detention services to help you manage uncertainties throughout the design and project lifecycle.