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A capital projects and infrastructure strategy that drives full value

Delivering capital projects and infrastructure programs on time and within budget is increasingly complex, fraught with risks, disruptions, escalating stakeholder expectations and greater demands for sustainability. Organizations embarking on major capital initiatives often face obstacles in aligning project scope with strategic objectives, sustainability targets, managing intricate interdependencies and navigating unpredictable external factors. These complexities frequently result in projects exceeding budgets, facing delays or not delivering expected outcomes.

PwC's multidisciplinary team, consisting of engineering, industry, finance, and sustainability professionals, leverages innovative technology-driven solutions as it guides clients through every phase of the project lifecycle to help them extract greater value from their capital investments. We play a key role advising on clean energy projects (renewable generation, hydrogen and carbon capture) and large-scale infrastructure, including AI-related infrastructure, nuclear energy, power delivery, and manufacturing expansion. We also help companies integrate sustainability into large-scale builds in the transportation, technology, energy, and real estate sectors that have significant environmental impacts. Our approach helps clients proactively manage risks, reduce disruptions, and gain competitive advantages in a rapidly evolving market landscape.

Unlocking capital projects: Navigate complexity, deliver with confidence

Aligning your infrastructure program and sustainability at every stage of the capital project lifecycle — from feasibility and design to procurement, construction and operations — is now essential to manage risk, control costs and strengthen operational resilience. Yet organizations face constant challenges from digital transformation, surging energy demands, evolving regulations and new technologies such as AI, digital twins and modular nuclear reactors. By proactively addressing these areas, companies can effectively maintain budgets and timelines.

Conduct power and load modeling to anticipate grid compatibility and surging energy needs — driven by AI, data centers, EV growth and electrification. This will help you avoid bottlenecks.

Consider small modular reactors or advanced nuclear as stable, low carbon power – especially for data center infrastructure – while proactively addressing regulatory, cost and public perception risks.

Build solid operating models — including blended finance, PPP structures, regulatory fit and bankability — to de-risk projects and secure sustainable funding.

Accelerate delivery by embedding building information management, digital twins, advanced dashboards, schedule analytics and quantified risk analysis within project controls and governance frameworks.

As sustainability risks increase, build new or update existing infrastructure to be climate-resilient — able to withstand extreme weather and designed for long-term adaptability. Doing so can drive value through capital planning, cost recovery and modernization of assets.


Capital Projects Studio: Increase efficiency and extract value from investments

As infrastructure projects move to the center of the growth agenda—and the margin for error shrinks—our Capital Projects Studio helps you effectively manage every aspect of complex, high-stakes capital portfolios. While most project tools tell you what happened, Capital Projects Studio helps leaders gain a competitive advantage by combining deep industry experience and advanced technologies that allows them to see what’s coming and early enough so they can act. By bringing strategy, financing, delivery, and performance into one connected platform, leaders have a single, trusted view of opportunities, tradeoffs, risks, and outcomes. Capital Projects Studio can help your company realize four outcomes.

Improve scope, schedule, risk, and performance management, turning complexity into controlled execution so you see challenges before they become real.

Sharpen capital allocation decisions, strengthen business cases, and align stakeholders and governance.

Bring financing, deals, and incentive considerations forward to safeguard returns and accelerate time to value.

Help move assets into an operational state that’s resilient, secure, and built to perform over time.


How PwC can help build your strategy

In addition to Capital Projects Studio, PwC can also help your organization with the following:

  • Program delivery:
    Build robust governance and control frameworks so your organization can accelerate program delivery, extract greater financial value from capital investments and meet sustainability goals while staying on track.
  • Project management support:
    Management solutions that combine advanced technologies, strategic collaboration and sustainability to increase resource efficiency, reduce carbon footprint and enhance stakeholder engagement..
  • Risk management:
    Assess and mitigate project and environmental risks using quantitative analysis to address productivity, climate resilience, regulatory compliance and supply chain sustainability efficiencies and opportunities.
  • Data-driven insights:
    Leverage AI-powered dashboards integrating sustainability metrics alongside traditional project KPIs, enabling holistic decision-making that balances cost, schedule and sustainability goals.
  • Accelerate capital projects with tax
    Identify sustainability tax credits and incentives that can significantly reduce project costs while helping you meet your company’s sustainability goals.
  • Assessment & benchmarking:
    Evaluate and benchmark capital project capabilities against industry standards and sustainability goals for continuous improvement.
  • Digital solutions:
    Use innovative technologies, including digital twins and real-time analytics, to enhance project efficiency and effectiveness.
  • Portfolio optimization:
    Implement strategic tools to align financial, operational and sustainability objectives, maximizing capital allocation efficiency.
  • Troubled project turnaround:
    Build rapid identification and structured intervention plans for distressed projects, driving recovery and performance improvement.

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Daryl  Walcroft

Daryl Walcroft

US Capital Projects and Infrastructure Leader, PwC US

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