Insights
Practical thinking on cost management, contracts and claims — published as it's written.
By the time a project reaches tender, most of the cost outcome has already been decided. Feasibility-stage cost planning is where certainty is actually built.
The choice of contract form isn't administrative. It allocates risk, sets the dispute mechanism, and shapes how the whole project is commercially managed.
Claims are rarely lost on merit. They're lost because the paper trail needed to prove entitlement wasn't built while the project was still running.
Individually, most variations look small. Left unpriced and unagreed, they compound quietly into one of the largest sources of final account risk.
Traditional tender, design-and-build, or management contracting — the procurement route chosen shapes where risk sits long before a single price is submitted.
Remote sites, long lead items, phased handover and live operational interfaces mean mining project commercial management carries a different risk profile to general construction.
