Capital projects, delivered on budget and on schedule.
We plan, control and verify capital programs from the first budget to closeout, and every week we tell you exactly where each project stands and where it is heading.
- Any locationOperating plants, greenfield sites and public works
- Any size
- Project engagementsIndividual projects, from small upgrades to a $1.83B facility
- $1M–$1.83B
- Portfolio engagementsMany projects run as one program
- $50M–$1B+
- Project management experience, each of our key leaders
- 30+ yrs
Owners we have delivered for
- Duro
What we delivered.
Some of the projects we have delivered, from a contract award upheld in court to a $1.83 billion facility delivered three months early.
- Public water and wastewater
- Capital portfolio
- Education and public buildings
- Pharma / Bio
- Chemicals
- Pipelines
- Refining
- Manufacturing
$53.7M contract · Public water and wastewaterExpert witness: an owner’s contract award, upheld in courtThe owner’s award upheld at trial and affirmed on appeal
$100M per year · Capital portfolioA $100M-a-year capital portfolio, turned aroundCost performance from 0.80 to 1.00
$1.83B · Pharma / BioDiabetes API facility, modular constructionSchedule expedited by 3 months
$220M · ChemicalsLow-GWP chemical manufacturing, phase 2Cost and schedule baseline managed within 1% accuracy
$145M · RefiningAtmospheric relief valve mitigationDelivered 14% below budget
$110M · ChemicalsLow-GWP chemical manufacturing, phase 1Analysis that kept capital from going into the wrong plan
$40M · ChemicalsLow-GWP chemical manufacturing, second productDelivered on time and on budget
$26M · ChemicalsLow-GWP chemical plant debottleneckDelivered on time and on budget
$18M · ManufacturingInsulation board plant across three countriesDelivered on time and on budget
$4.3M · RefiningFCC box cooler replacementDelivered on time and on budget
$100M+ contract · Public water and wastewaterA four-year schedule, replanned to protect a federal grantSchedule improved 15% to use the full $80M federal grant
$25M · Education and public buildingsA stalled school project, recoveredA new baseline, and more than a month recovered on the schedule
$1.55B · Pharma / BioNew pharmaceutical manufacturing facility3-month schedule compression in detailed design
$180M · PipelinesRefined-product pipeline capacity increaseCompletion date forecast to the exact day
$115M · RefiningBenzene reduction unitOne month early and 12% under budget
$87M · RefiningUltra-low sulfur gasoline and hydrogen recoveryDelivered on time and on budget
$35M · RefiningFCC slurry filtration unitHard production deadline met
$18M · ManufacturingElectronic materials plant expansion, ThailandDelivered on time and on budget
$11M · ChemicalsChemical laboratory relocation and expansionDelivered on time and on budget
We deliver projects.
Owners need the program to land on budget and on schedule, with no surprises. Everything we do serves that.
Program management
Capital programs that land on budget and on scheduleProject controls
One trusted number for cost, schedule and productivityConstruction management
Progress you have seen, not progress you were toldConceptual planning
The right project, planned while change is cheapStartup support
A clean handover from construction to operationsConsulting and project recovery
A stalled project back on a baseline you can believeBid evaluation and expert witness
Award decisions that stand up in court
We wrote our own software. Now we build yours.
Digital solutions from Executrek: we digitize the paperwork-heavy processes behind your operation and connect the systems you already run, in weeks and months. Your people get back to their real work.
Explore digital solutionsA self-sufficient team on every project.
We execute projects by forming independent project teams, our Project Molecules, drawn from across our whole organization. Each one is dedicated to a project or portfolio, with full accountability to deliver.
We’re flexible to your project’s needs. The concept stays the same.
The team’s shared system of recordTransmission: a handful of high-value projects at once, with large structures and costly materials. A full project office, a field team, and dedicated cost and schedule support.
Illustrative: every team is sized per project.
Whatever the size and structure of your project, we provide a molecule that is self-sufficient and covers, at a minimum, these functions.
The project manager leads the molecule and is accountable for delivery. We consult you and take your direction, then execute it independently within the structure you give us.
In this setup:Project managerProject engineering works in Ontrek PM, our own project system, turning the field team’s verified quantities into progress, forecasts and the weekly report.
In this setup:Project engineerHow Ontrek PM worksThey are the team’s ambassadors on site, making sure the work gets done in a way everyone benefits from. They bring back installed quantities and the detail the project engineer needs.
In this setup:Construction manager, Field coordinatorWe call it support on purpose: we work alongside your project-controls team, not over it. Having these functions inside the molecule takes load off your staff, so the team can move without waiting on your already busy people.
In this setup:Project controls support
Why it works.
- Full accountability
- A self-reliant team
- Higher productivity
- Continuity
- No extra draw on your resources
That is the key to delivering projects better than our industry peers.
What owners say about working with us.
The Earned Values Tracking System that you customized and employed for our projects is unparalleled. It enabled our team to forecast and manage cost and schedule to a degree of detail and accuracy never before accomplished here.
Is your next project ready for a market with fewer people to build it?
By 2030, U.S. demand for core craft workers is modeled at about 2.78 million against 1.53 million available. The gap is where schedules and budgets break.
See the numbers for your region →| Year | Supply index | Supply (thousands) | Demand index | Demand (thousands) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 98% | 1,745 | 120% | 2,137 |
| 2027 | 96% | 1,709 | 126% | 2,243 |
| 2028 | 93% | 1,656 | 139% | 2,475 |
| 2029 | 90% | 1,602 | 149% | 2,653 |
| 2030 | 86% | 1,531 | 156% | 2,778 |
- 20%fewer managers
- 50%more work
- 33%fewer people
* Executrek forecast for the next five years in certain areas, based on our own project experience. It is our view, not a published statistic.
Jobs you post for construction will not be filled.
That is our view from the field, and the reason we measure what every hour produces.
The Project Management Institute projects the supply of qualified project talent worldwide “falling short by as many as 29.8 million project professionals” by 2035, with demand growing fastest in construction and manufacturing. PMI, 2025
Our forecast, indexed to today equals 100. Project managers: 100 today, 80 in five years (20% fewer). Work to deliver: 100 today, 150 in five years (50% more). People to do it: 100 today, 67 in five years (33% fewer).
“The biggest constraint I see in the market right now to getting gas built faster is labor—EPC contractors.”
John W. Ketchum, Chairman, President and CEO, NextEra Energy, Q1 2026 earnings call “As the global power demand continues its climb, availability of highly skilled labor, especially in the United States, is in short supply.”
Kenneth Young, Chairman and CEO, Babcock & Wilcox, Q2 2026 earnings call “These variables include, but are not limited to, availability of project management expertise, availability of qualified, skilled labor…”
Entergy Corporation, 2025 annual report (Form 10-K), on what decides whether capital projects finish on time and on budget
So every hour has to produce
When you can’t add crews, the only lever left is how much progress each hour buys. Most owners can’t see that number until the money is spent.
We measure it, every week
Earned hours against spent hours, by discipline and contractor, verified in the field. Drift shows up months before the finish date, while it can still be fixed.
Find out if our process is the right fit for your project.
Send us one project; a senior member of our team tells you where it really stands.
Is your project on track?
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Do you know, by discipline, how many hours each contractor spent last month against how many they earned?
We built the system we run projects in.
Ontrek PM is our method as software: budget, verified progress, earned value and the forecast for every project, in one place. It’s what our teams work in, and what our clients see.
How Ontrek PM fits in