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Courses
Featured courses
MAC-EDM-1020
Engineering Management Masterclass: From Practicing Engineer to Engineering Leader
Turn practicing engineers into confident engineering managers who can plan, organize, lead, and control technical work — and defend the decisions that come with it.
23:07:59·intermediate
SVA-CMA-1070
Quantum - Pricing and Proving the Claim
Equip construction professionals to build the number properly — structuring heads of claim, separating prolongation from disruption, proving cost discretely instead of globally, an…
00:26:15·intermediate
LDV-LDR-1040
Leading in Complexity — Adaptive Work on Live Projects
About this course Some project problems need better control. Others need people to work differently. Treating an adaptive challenge as a technical fix is the most common leadership…
02:24:08·advanced
CER-AAC-1010
Certified Cost Professional (CCP) Prep Course
Master all 34 chapters of AACE International's Skills & Knowledge of Cost Engineering, 6th Edition — from cost elements through risk management and the SI system.
38:02:26·intermediate
From the desk
Latest blogs
Decide the Question First: Framing Before Choosing on Large Capital Projects
Large capital projects rarely lack analysis; they often lack agreement on what is being decided. This blog explains why naming and owning the decision question must come before choosing among options, and how leaders can tell a wrong problem from a wrong estimate or a contested context.
October 23, 2026·23 min read
Search, Sprint, Ramp Up: How Large Capital Project Decisions Actually Unfold
Large capital projects are decided long before ground is broken. This article traces how decisions unfold across search, sprint and ramp-up, and what sponsors and owners can do to make projects worth building, not just built.
October 22, 2026·19 min read
How You Contract Is How You Govern: Rethinking Risk Transfer on Large Capital Projects
Risk on large capital projects is rarely transferred away; it is priced, shared or hidden. This blog explains why contract strategy is a governance decision and how sponsors can allocate risk, design incentives and build governability that holds when surprise arrives.
October 22, 2026·18 min read