Project controls: a status, a date and a cost you can defend
We answer the two questions troubled projects cannot answer: when the asset will actually be finished, and what it will finally cost. The answer comes from data, not from the contractor's opinion.
A standalone Managed Service, or inside a PMC contract
Fee
Monthly team rate
Who it is for
Owners with their own team but a gap in one competence
Projects
4 projects
We reply within 1 business day. A commercial proposal follows within 5 business days of the scoping meeting.
In substance
What Project Controls is
Project controls is an engineering discipline, not spreadsheet maintenance. It covers planning and schedule maintenance, physical progress measurement, cost control, change management and probabilistic forecasting. INVECON delivers it as a standalone Managed Service or inside a full PMC contract.
When you need this service
A new completion date every month
The forecast moves, but nobody can show the calculation behind it.
Progress is reported by eye
Percentages are declared by the performers; physical quantities are never measured.
70% of budget spent, 45% of the asset built
The gap between expenditure and physical progress is untracked and there is no final cost forecast.
Nobody analyses the critical path
A schedule exists but is never interrogated: it is unknown which activities actually drive the completion date.
Changes never reach the baseline
Additional works are executed but schedule and budget are not revised, so the baseline loses all meaning.
What we do
Planning and scheduling
We build and maintain the Primavera P6 schedule: WBS, logic, resources, calendars, baseline and controlled revisions.
Progress measurement
Rules of credit defined, physical quantities measured on site, earned value calculated.
Cost control
Plan/actual/forecast against the CBS, variance analysis, Cost to Complete and final cost estimates.
Scheduling is one function inside project controls. The discipline also covers physical progress measurement, cost control, change management, risk analysis and forecasting. A schedule without progress measurement and cost control cannot produce a reliable forecast.
Cost to Complete forecasts the expenditure still required to finish the project, based on actual status, awarded contracts, outstanding quantities and known risks. Added to sunk cost, it gives the final cost forecast. It is the key figure for investors and lenders because it answers whether the funding is sufficient.
A cumulative curve of earned quantities or cost over time. Comparing planned, actual and forecast curves shows both the size of the slippage and its trend — whether the project is recovering or continuing to diverge.
Yes. We start by testing its quality — logic, open-ended activities, realistic durations and resourcing, alignment with actual status. If it cannot serve as a control instrument we say so and propose a baseline rebuild.
Primavera P6 for planning, Power BI for dashboards and reporting, Autodesk BIM 360 for ISO 19650 document control, and our own digital tooling (DES) for site data capture.
A digital project environment: dashboards, registers, automated reporting, AI tooling.
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Shall we discuss your project?
Tell us about the asset and the current stage — we will propose a working format and team composition. A commercial proposal follows within five business days of the meeting.
We reply within 1 business day. A commercial proposal follows within 5 business days of the scoping meeting.
