Winter 2024
Project Management PANORAMA is Pathfinder's quarterly industry-focused newsletter. We present the "Capital Project World as seen by Pathfinder, LLC" with regard to "trending" or "controversial" industry-related topics.
We hope you enjoy this issue and as always, if you have any comments or would like to voice your views on the industry, please contact us directly. Let's continue to strive for safe, efficient, and successful projects!
Steve Cabano
For almost ½ a century, owner capital project organizations have continued to improve the methodology to deliver value across their capital investment programs. Industry benchmarking through organizations such as the Construction Industry Institute (CII), Independent Project Analysis (IPA), and Pathfinder have offered data-driven capital project improvements over the past 4 decades. Whether called Front End Planning, Front End Loading, or Pre-Project Planning, these processes squeeze the most value out of every capital dollar spent.
Ricci Siciliano
The industry is progressively requiring more and more details around carbon emissions and carbon utilization. For years companies in the process industry have been asked to report on the carbon utilized in the resultant asset developed through capital expenditure.
The world is going through a transformation of energy demand and supply. The electrical power demand is increasing with expectations that we will double the amount of power required by 2050 and double again by 2065. The industry cannot support this growth with traditional power supply technology. The industry is considering a mix of power production technologies including nuclear.
Ali is a Senior Project Manager with a career spanning over 20 years in nearly all facets of the commercial construction industry. He has broad and deep knowledge of the successful delivery of construction projects with varying complexities and sizes.
Pathfinder soundly believes that knowledge sharing and collaboration of experiences and new ideas is an essential part of bringing clarity and confidence to process industry project teams across a multitude of industries.