Project Execution Readiness
Validate and strengthen project execution readiness across planning, cost, schedule, and local capacity before construction begins.
Real-World Project Success
Even the most carefully designed mining, energy, and infrastructure projects can face execution hurdles. Budget strain, shifting timelines, and stakeholder misalignment often arise not from poor planning, but from readiness gaps. Unclear scopes, underestimated local capacity, and planning blind spots can gradually undermine progress if left unchecked.
HTC’s Execution Readiness service helps close these gaps. Through a focused, hands-on consulting approach, we uncover and resolve the factors that hinder a project’s transition from planning to performance. Whether you’re approaching Final Investment Decision (FID), gearing up for construction, or reigniting a stalled project, we bring the structure, insight, and discipline needed to move forward with confidence.
Our Consulting Focus Areas
We go far beyond checklist-style assessments. Our team embeds directly into your project environment—engaging stakeholders, reviewing plans, and identifying execution risks across every delivery layer. Here’s how we do it:
Project Definition Readiness (PDRI) Review
Using the industry-standard PDRI methodology, we review the quality and completeness of your early planning efforts. We identify gaps in scope definition, permitting, engineering, risk planning, and stakeholder alignment that could cause cascading delays downstream
Construction Readiness Review
We evaluate if your project is ready to break ground—from procurement and logistics readiness to contractor mobilization and sequencing. We bring practical insight from complex capital projects to test whether construction can proceed without disruption.
Local Capacity Review
Execution often falters not because of poor planning but because local labor, infrastructure, or supply chains can’t keep up. We assess workforce availability, equipment access, and regional logistics to ensure your plan matches the realities on the ground.
Engagement with Project Leaders
Our consultants meet one-on-one with key team members to evaluate leadership alignment, clarity of responsibilities, decision-making readiness, and communication workflows. This human factor often differs between a cohesive and fragmented project team.
Contractor & Consultant Evaluation
We conduct structured meetings with incumbent service providers to assess their capacity, performance history, contractual obligations, and integration into the broader project plan. We help you validate whether the right people are in the right roles at the right time.
Battery Limits & Interface Review
Poorly defined scope boundaries create friction between disciplines and lead to costly rework. We map and clarify all battery limits and project interfaces to ensure accountability, reduce disputes, and prevent scope creep.
Value Engineering Opportunities
We perform targeted value engineering reviews to identify cost savings or design efficiencies without compromising function, safety, or compliance. Our focus is on value, not just cost reduction.
Cost Estimate Validation
Our experts dissect your capital estimate to confirm completeness, realism, and alignment with current market conditions. We identify embedded risks, unverified assumptions, and potential cost escalation factors.
Schedule Review
We review the integrated master schedule for logic, dependency accuracy, float, and exposure to execution risks. Our team helps ensure the schedule reflects how the work will be performed—not just how it’s hoped to be delivered.