Capital Analytics combines real project data, cutting-edge technology, and deep industry expertise, giving owners, developers, and investors the confidence to navigate risks and transform capital project performance and outcomes. Our comprehensive suite of analytics solutions provides end-to-end value throughout the capital life cycle, offering detailed benchmarking metrics for portfolios and projects, real-time performance insights, and guidance on capturing and maximizing value.
With Capital Analytics, we create a step change in capital project performance through analytics-driven insights.
Examples of our work
Market impact assessment for an oil and gas player
Capital Analytics identified a cost-savings opportunity of about $200 million and quantified market risk exposure for an oil and gas company, enabling a successful final investment decision (FID) on the company’s more than $10 billion portfolio in a volatile market environment.
Addressing costly scheduling delays at a petrochemical facility
We created a generative scheduling model with AI to mitigate schedule delays at a $3 billion petrochemical facility at about 80 percent completion. The company decreased idle time by more than 30 percent, optimized total full-time equivalents on-site to capture value, and completed the project on time.
Supporting the final investment decision at a green-hydrogen plant
We developed a should-cost model, schedule assessment, and risk analysis for a green-hydrogen plant valued between $300 billion and $400 million to support the plant’s successful FID. We worked with the company to identify savings opportunities totaling 10 percent and develop risk mitigation plans for execution.
Featured video
A route to better capital projects
Imagine an online navigation tool that can guide your construction project. In the same way algorithms can guide you on roads to your destination, an optimization tool can test millions of schedule configurations to find the optimal work sequence and resources for your construction project.
Our Approach
Forward-looking diagnostics detail the range of outcomes and what projects can do to realize them
We deliver predictive project analysis by coupling historical project results with forward-looking engineering, procurement, and construction market intelligence to build a fact-based range of cost and schedule outcomes. Cost and schedule diagnostics identify critical risks and opportunities that could make a substantial impact on your project business case, and contractor diligence helps you understand what is achievable in a given market based on global trends, local competition, and contractor capabilities.
Proprietary solutions create a fact-based guide to the highest-value opportunities
We offer an ecosystem of analytical capabilities that maximize value creation across all phases of a project’s life cycle. Benchmark your capital portfolio against industry standards and peer performance to identify which areas show the greatest opportunity to improve allocation and efficiencies. Identify the best structure and contracting strategies for your portfolio through our organization and capability assessments. Generate rapid, bottom-up estimates to assess a range of design and execution scenarios in pursuit of optimal value generation.
Tech-enabled project delivery analytics provide a real-time view to help you stay on time and on budget
Customized capabilities for digital control towers provide you with real-time, transparent views of project performance in addition to strategic and predictive insights to enable value assurance and proactive interventions. Generative scheduling tools help you discover the best path for construction, enabling an optimized and accelerated execution strategy. Comprehensive market intelligence on the capital-projects space supports you in navigating volatility and having a robust fact base for partner selection and contract negotiations.
Featured Solutions
Capital Analytics Diagnostics
Provides forward-looking perspectives on project outcomes, including rapid bottom-up and detailed cost estimates with proprietary benchmarks to assess a range of design and execution scenarios and predictions of critical cost and schedule drivers
Project Delivery Navigator
Delivers real-time access to synthesized data for capital projects, allowing project teams to anticipate issues and identify opportunities; provides end-to-end transparency for project stakeholders
Team Planner
Developed based on our decades-long global experience in working on capital projects and organizational topics; allows us to accurately model the size and structure of capital projects’ owner teams at each stage of the project
Production System Improvement
Combines McKinsey’s construction experience, proprietary benchmarks, and client capability-building methodology with generative scheduling software; delivers cost and schedule improvements by modeling a project schedule parametrically to generate the optimal cost and schedule via AI
Featured Insights
Blog Post
McKinsey welcomes SES, experts at estimating capital projects
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With the acquisition of SES, McKinsey deepens its estimating capabilities, helping clients navigate the surge in capital projects construction.
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Delivering on construction productivity is no longer optional
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Why the construction industry must climb out of its productivity rut—and why it hasn’t yet.
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Increasing transparency in megaproject execution
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Cost and schedule overruns are the norm in big capital projects. Here’s how to uncover their causes—and tackle them.
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Generative scheduling: Saving time and money in capital projects
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With both infrastructure spending and inflation on the rise, optimizing scheduling and work sequencing can accelerate projects and unlock valuable savings.
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Project delivery hubs: Analytics for better megaproject outcomes
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By providing tailored project-delivery intelligence to decision makers, an analytics hub can reduce risk and increase the odds of successful completion.
Executive Briefing
Capital Projects 5.0: Reimagining capital-project delivery
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What could your business achieve if your large capital projects were 30 to 50 percent faster and cheaper? The opportunity is more real than you think.
Blog Post
McKinsey welcomes Westney Consulting, a leading capital-projects consultancy
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The acquisition further helps us ensure on-time and on-budget delivery of our clients’ capital projects.
Article
Capital investment is about to surge: Are your operations ready?
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By 2027, about $130 trillion will flood into capital projects. But few organizations today could deliver with the speed and operational efficiency the influx demands.
Our People
Ishaan Nangia
Senior PartnerMelbourne
Leads our industrials and infrastructure work in Australia and our capital excellence and infrastructure efforts in Asia; works...
Piotr Pikul
PartnerToronto
Leads McKinsey’s global client service in major capital projects for the basic materials sector, serving leading mining & metals...
Matthieu Dussud
PartnerParis
Supports and advises global resource-based companies and advanced industries on capital excellence, operations transformation...
Kevin Stokvis
PartnerCalgary
Leads performance transformations of natural-resource companies by leveraging deep functional knowledge related to capital projects,...
Koen Vermeltfoort
PartnerAmsterdam
Advises oil and gas companies on capital projects, procurement, and strategy
Antonio De Gregorio
PartnerMadrid
Helps industrial, energy, and infrastructure companies meet their strategic challenges, as well as defining and implementing...
Rajat Agarwal
PartnerSingapore
Leads our energy and materials practice and coleads our capital excellence work in Southeast Asia
Justin Dahl
PartnerHouston
Brings expertise in overall capital project development and delivery to a diverse group of owner companies