Readiness assurance for capital projects

Know your start-up risk before you commit capital.

Turner Capital Projects gives lenders, insurers and owners independent, evidence-based findings on whether a capital project will reach commercial operation when the finance case says it will, and what would close the gap if it won't.

ICxA sets the standard. TCP implements it.Led by Paul Turner, P.Eng, PMP25 years: aerospace, HVDC, hydro, water$5.2B HVDC megaproject experience

Major projects finish. Too few succeed.

Projects are declared complete when the milestones are hit, the assets are built and the contracts are closed.

Success is measured by something else:

  • Systems that perform as intended
  • Operations that start safely and smoothly
  • Outcomes that justify the investment

The gap between the two shows up long before commissioning, as readiness that was never demonstrated along the way.

What most projects doChart: readiness maturity is not demonstrated through the front end or construction, then late recognition and a compressed push at commissioning leave the project short of an operations-ready state.
Readiness attempted at the end. Nothing demonstrates that readiness is maturing until commissioning, when a compressed push tries to make up the gap. That is where start-up delay is created.
What successful projects doChart: readiness maturity starts low and rises with evidence at each stage, proving the path, the progression and the condition, until the asset is ready for operations.
Readiness demonstrated all the way through. Prove the path early, prove the progression in the middle, and prove the condition at the end. Readiness maturity starts in its infancy and matures over time; the evidence shows which path a project is on.
Readiness Assessment

TCP assesses readiness at any stage of the project

Early, we test whether the path to operation is defined. Mid-project, whether readiness is keeping pace with construction. Late, whether the asset and the organization are actually ready. Each finding rests on the project's own documents.

EARLY

Prove the path

FEED and engineering: completion, testing and handover defined, owned and scheduled.

MIDDLE

Prove the progression

Construction: evidence that readiness is maturing, not waiting for the end.

LATE

Prove the condition

Commissioning and operations: ready for energization, takeover and commercial operation.

Where we work

Data center power

Grid interconnection through integrated systems testing and energization, for hyperscale, colocation and AI campus loads.

Power generation & transmission

HVDC, hydroelectric, converter stations, switchyards and synchronous condensers.

Industrial & energy facilities

Process plants and energy infrastructure where systems must start together the first time.

Water & public infrastructure

Treatment, regulated assets and publicly accountable programs.

Ways to work with TCP

Readiness Assessment

Independent, evidence-based findings on start-up risk for lenders, their advisers, insurers and owners, including the Pre-Close Readiness Opinion.

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Readiness Monitoring

Quarterly reporting against the readiness baseline agreed at close, so lenders and insurers see whether readiness is maturing all the way to commercial operation.

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Training

Programs aligned with ICxA standards that build the capability to plan, run and prove readiness inside project teams.

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