Independentassurance for theregion’s largest capitalprogrammes.
Project Advisors is an independent capital projects practice working for owners, ministries and development authorities across Saudi Arabia and the Gulf. We audit construction cost and contract compliance, govern programmes against the case that justified them, and build the asset records that survive handover.
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Infrastructure portfolios under advisory governance
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Infrastructure delivered on site as a construction engineer
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Fixed asset registers built and verified
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Across heavy civil construction and Big Four advisory
Figures reflect the founding principal’s career record across heavy civil delivery and Big Four capital projects advisory.
The position
Large programmesrarely fail at the end.They fail where nobodyheld authority to stop.
Scope is approved before a cost baseline exists. Contractors mobilise ahead of an executed contract. Certificates are signed against progress narratives rather than measured work. None of it registers as failure on any single document, which is precisely why it accumulates.
By the time variance is formally reported, the budget cycle has usually already absorbed it and the commercial leverage to recover has gone. Assurance is worth most at the point it is least urgent. That is the uncomfortable part of this work.
What we do
Six disciplines,one commercial question.
Is the owner getting what the owner is paying for. Every engagement below resolves to that.
Where we work
Markets where capital movesfaster than governance.
The practice
Built by someonewho ran the sitebefore auditing it.
Most construction auditors have never signed off a pour or argued a shop drawing at seven in the morning. The founding principal spent seven years delivering bridges, interchanges and heavy civil works before moving into Big Four advisory, and has spent the thirteen years since governing portfolios on the other side of the same table.
That sequence matters. It is the difference between testing a payment application and knowing where the quantity actually went.
About the practiceCredentials
- CCA, Certified Construction Auditor
- CCP, Construction Control Professional
- B.E. Civil Engineering, Jordan University of Science and Technology
Working languages
Arabic, English
Insights
Written from the engagement,not from the brochure.
Common questions
What is a construction audit?
A construction audit tests what a contractor has invoiced against what the contract permits and what was actually built. It covers measured quantities, applied rates, preliminaries and overhead recovery, plant and labour charges, and change order entitlement. On live programmes it is normally run as a rolling review rather than once at final account, because recovery becomes harder after certification.
When should an owner commission independent project assurance?
The highest return points are before contract award, at each major stage gate, and at the first sustained variance between reported and actual progress. Reviews commissioned after a programme is visibly in trouble still recover value, but they recover less of it, because the records and the commercial leverage have both degraded by then.
What does ISO 55001 asset management involve?
ISO 55001 sets the requirements for a management system covering the whole asset lifecycle. In practice the work involves a gap analysis against the standard, an asset management policy and strategic asset management plan, a verified asset register with a defensible valuation basis, and lifecycle and renewal planning. For public entities it is increasingly tied to accrual accounting obligations.
Do you act for contractors or for owners?
The practice acts for owners, ministries, development authorities and investors. Working exclusively on the owner side removes the conflict that arises when the same firm advises both parties to a construction contract.
If the number lookswrong, it usually is.
Send the programme, the contract form and the current cost position. You will get a written view on where the exposure sits, before any engagement is discussed.
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