Independent EPC advisory
Middle East and London · International availability
When a capital project faces challenges, the impact compounds every week, to schedule, margin, reputation and stakeholder confidence — Acuity EPC Advisory brings four decades of executive EPC leadership to bear quickly, restoring visibility, control and momentum to your project.
Founder · Acuity EPC Advisory
Philip St John Green
Four decades of capital project experience — from site to boardroom — now focused entirely on helping organisations with projects under pressure.
When a project is in difficulty, what you need is someone who has genuinely been there — not as an observer, but as the person accountable for the outcome. Someone who can engage credibly with your board, work directly with your project team, and apply experience that is immediately relevant to your situation.
A career spanning five continents and four decades — from workshop floor to Global President of Project Delivery at a 50,000-person EPC company — means the full range of project challenges is familiar territory. Lump sum EPC projects under contractual fire. Teams under pressure in remote and demanding environments. Boards requiring answers. Contractors requiring management. Every layer of a capital project, seen from every angle.
That breadth — Greenfield and Brownfield, every contract type, every project phase, from the Algerian Sahara to the Siberian Arctic — means that whatever your project is facing, it is unlikely to be unfamiliar. The diagnostic starts quickly, the relevant experience is applied immediately, and the path forward becomes clearer faster.
If your project is under pressure — or you want to ensure it stays on track — the conversation starts here.
What we do
Most projects that are off track are not beyond recovery — but the window to act narrows quickly. The earlier an independent perspective is brought in, the more options remain on the table and the lower the cost of recovery.
Acuity EPC Advisory works alongside your team to establish an honest picture of where the project stands, identify the root causes of underperformance, and build a practical mitigation plan. The result: your leadership regains control, your board gets the answers it needs, and your project gets back on track — with your team stronger for the experience.
All engagements are conducted with complete discretion and confidentiality.
Engagements are tailored to the project context — from rapid diagnostic assessments to sustained embedded advisory over the project lifecycle.
Diagnose
Rapid, independent assessment of project status — cost, schedule, risk, team performance and contractual position. You get an honest picture, free from internal bias and politics.
Identify
Clear articulation of root causes, critical exposures and where the project is most at risk. Prioritised by impact and urgency — so effort goes where it matters most.
Mitigate
A structured, actionable recovery plan with clear ownership, timelines and success measures — built with your team, not imposed on them. Board-ready from day one.
Coach & embed
Hands-on support to implement the plan and build team capability — so the improvement outlasts the engagement and your people are better equipped for the next project.
Expertise
Four decades of capital project experience — across a wide range of execution models, contract types, climates and project phases — applied directly to your challenge.
When a project is under pressure, the instinct is to work harder within the existing team. That rarely works — not because the people aren't capable, but because they are too close to it, too time-constrained, and carrying the weight of decisions already made. The problem is rarely a shortage of expertise — it is a shortage of dedicated focus. What's needed is an independent perspective, applied quickly, by someone who has seen this before.
Acuity EPC Advisory provides exactly that. An advisor with the seniority to engage credibly at board and executive level, the technical depth to work directly with the project team, and the sole focus to dedicate the time your project demands — freeing your leadership to manage the business while the project is brought back under control.
That support draws on experience across Greenfield developments and Brownfield revamps, stick-built and modular construction, projects executed in the heat of the Algerian Sahara and the depths of the Siberian Arctic. It spans lump sum, unit rate and reimbursable contracts — each with its own failure modes and its own recovery path.
The full project lifecycle is covered — from concept and feasibility through FEED, detailed engineering, procurement, construction and commissioning and handover. Whatever phase your project is in, whatever the challenge, the engagement starts from a position of direct, relevant experience — not theory, not frameworks — and moves fast.
Sectors served
Across four decades, project work has spanned a wide range of sectors and asset types — from the earliest feasibility studies through to commissioning and handover. The groupings below reflect where that experience runs deepest.
Energy Transition & Sustainability
Oil, Gas & Petrochemicals
Power & Utilities Infrastructure
Civil, Industrial & Infrastructure
The patterns of project distress repeat consistently across sectors. Cost overruns, schedule slippage, team misalignment and contractual exposure do not respect industry boundaries. Whilst diagnostics are carefully and comprehensively tailored to each project, many of the recovery principles and approaches translate across sectors — wherever capital projects are being planned or delivered.
Contact
Every week a project runs off track, the cost of recovery increases and the options available narrow. If you have a project under pressure — or want an independent perspective before it reaches that point — reach out for a confidential, no-obligation conversation.
All enquiries are treated with complete discretion.