Capital Projects Consulting Services

Capital projects often suffer from cost and time overruns due to fragmented processes, sub-optimal project structures, limited internal bandwidth, and a complex network of stakeholders. 

EY helps organizations overcome project delivery challenges by defining the right program strategy and driving execution through deep industry knowledge. With a strong focus on operational excellence and strategic use of technology, we enable real-time visibility, integrated data insights, and proactive decision-making — helping projects stay on track, on time, and within budget.


How EY supports your capital projects

Our Capital Projects Consulting team helps organizations plan and deliver complex capital programs with confidence. We focus on enhancing operational excellence, driving efficiencies, managing key risks, and ensuring effective governance across the project life cycle — from strategy to execution. We work closely with organizations to address the complexities of engineering, procurement, and construction, while identifying opportunities to optimize performance, reduce cost overruns, and mitigate delivery risks. Leveraging deep industry knowledge and digital tools, we help align multiple stakeholders, enhance transparency, and support on-time, on-budget delivery.


Capital Projects Consulting Services: Driving project excellence across the lifecycle

The Capital Projects Consulting Services team at EY supports clients from strategic program advisory to digital enablement — helping navigate risks, align stakeholders, and drive project excellence across the project lifecycle.

We enable effective governance, enhance risk management, and improve cost and schedule performance. By leveraging digital tools, we unlock data-driven insights and drive efficiencies in project management with a clear focus on operational excellence. Our approach fosters collaboration across the ecosystem to deliver successful, resilient outcomes.

EY Capital Projects Consulting capabilities include:

  • Digital Transformation in Program and Construction Management
  • Program Strategy Design
  • Program Management Office (PMO) services
  • Operational Excellence – Project maturity assessment, productivity improvement, waste reduction
  • Contract excellence – Contracting strategy, contract negotiation, claims and delay analysis
  • Commercial excellence – Payments and change orders
  • Program and project risk management
What EY can do for you?


Sectors we support

We are at the forefront of key innovations transforming the construction industry, from new delivery methodologies and contracting mechanisms to strategic application of data and technology to predict risk and drive better outcomes.


Case study

We support our clients deliver projects on time and within budget, as specified in the business case. By preventing cost overruns in large capital expenditures, we enable our clients to stay focused on their core business operations.

We have successfully delivered 10%-15% schedule compression and arrested cost leakages of around 3%-5%.

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