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Project Execution & Delivery

Maintain schedule certainty in fast-moving, capital-intensive builds

Delivering complex data center programs requires disciplined oversight and proactive risk management. Ankura provides project controls, construction monitoring, and contract strategy support to help fast-track programs stay on schedule and aligned with budget and performance expectations.

Offerings

Procurement & Contract Strategy

We advise on delivery methods, contract structures, risk allocation, and procurement sequencing to align incentives, optimize capital efficiency, and appropriately transfer risk across contractors and vendors.

Project Controls Design & Implementation

We implement cost tracking, schedule management, change control, and risk reporting through tailored controls and dashboards to provide real-time visibility into project performance and enable proactive mitigation of cost and schedule risks.

Construction Monitoring

We perform independent progress reviews, schedule and cost health checks, and lender reporting – including draw reviews – to provide objective assurance that projects are advancing in line with plan and budget.

GC Performance & Schedule Analytics

We provide embedded support to general contractors on mission-critical projects – including schedule development, logic validation, and long-lead tracking – to improve schedule predictability and support clear, executive-level reporting tied to key commercial milestones.

Independent Lender Advisory

We conduct ongoing monitoring, risk-based draw reviews, and early identification of emerging cost, schedule, and scope risks to validate progress against funding requests and protect capital providers throughout project execution.

Commissioning Oversight

We assess commissioning progress and readiness for energization and turnover through independent reviews to reduce transition risk and ensure systems are prepared to operate as designed.

Systems Integration

We manage interfaces across utilities, OFCI vendors, EPC/CM teams, and commissioning agents – including energization sequencing – to eliminate haps in scope and coordination during the transition from construction to operations.

The Ankura Difference

We integrate project controls, commercial strategy, and independent oversight into a single, coordinated approach tailored to fast-tracked, mission-critical environments. By providing real-time visibility into cost, schedule, and risk while aligning owners, contractors, and capital providers, we help clients maintain momentum, reduce uncertainty, and deliver complex data center programs with greater predictability.

Key Contacts

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John Byrne

Senior Managing Director

Philadelphia, PA

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Monark Vyas

Senior Managing Director

San Francisco, CA

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William Brown

Senior Managing Director

Houston, TX

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Matthew Finn

Senior Managing Director

London, England

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We solve problems by operating as one firm to deliver for our clients. Where others advise, we solve. Where others consult, we partner.

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