THE LEADER VOLUME 21 • NUMBER 10
Capital projects and AI
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Accenture has recently launched Accenture Construct, a new global business to help project owners plan, deliver and optimise large infrastructure and capital projects, including in the mining industry.
Accenture Construct brings together Accenture’ s capital projects business – which has grown four times over three years across strategic advisory, engineering, project delivery and technology services – to support delivery at scale and give project owners one accountable partner across the full project lifecycle. The new entity is designed to reinvent how capital projects are delivered to overcome delays, cost overruns and execution risk by evolving fragmented project delivery models with the use of AI and data.
Accenture states:“ AI and real-time intelligence are wired into our delivery model, improving decision speed, reducing risk and creating more predictable outcomes every time. We build digital and AI into your programs to surface field intelligence and flag potential risks to the people who can act on it, while there’ s still time to change the outcome.”
It adds that Accenture Construct“ strengthens Accenture’ s position to capture growth from three converging demand cycles: the AI infrastructure build-out of data centre construction, the global energy transition, and long-term infrastructure replacement. The total addressable market for integrated owner-side capital project services is $ 260 billion and is projected to grow 7.5 % annually to $ 348 billion in 2030.”
“ Global demand for critical infrastructure capital programs is accelerating at the same time as AI is fundamentally changing how projects are planned, delivered and operated,” said Julie Sweet, Chair and CEO, Accenture.“ Together, these shifts are significantly increasing our market opportunity for the capital project services provided by Accenture Construct, which combines deep capital project expertise with global scale, built to give owners a new level of visibility and certainty.”
Accenture argues that project complexity is growing faster than traditional, siloed delivery models can manage. Dozens of advisors, consultants, contractors and specialist firms are each accountable to deliver a piece of a project, while the owner absorbs the costs between them.
Backed by Accenture’ s deep capital project expertise and leadership in data and AI, it says Accenture Construct addresses these challenges through a common project data foundation that creates a single operational view across the entire delivery ecosystem.
The company states:“ Accenture Construct’ s AIenabled workflows shift delivery from reactive management to predictive decision-making. These capabilities, combined with Accenture’ s global delivery capability, enable Accenture Construct to act as a single accountable partner from strategy through handover, reducing the transition costs, knowledge loss and accountability gaps that accumulate every time ownership transfers between the firms involved in a project. The result is earlier risk identification, better decisions, and greater certainty over cost, schedule, quality and asset performance.”
“ Capital projects haven’ t lacked expertise; they’ ve lacked alignment on shared success outcomes. Owners assemble exceptional teams, but accountability is often dispersed across the delivery ecosystem,” said Adam J. Shaw, CEO of Accenture Construct.“ Accenture Construct brings those capabilities together under one accountable partner, combining deep delivery expertise with AI and data to help owners make better decisions, reduce uncertainty and deliver better outcomes.”
Accenture Construct serves global private and public sector clients and is organised around five global lines of business, oriented around asset outcomes. One of these is Process Industries described as covering decarbonisation infrastructure, liquefied natural gas and complex field programs for chemicals, mining and oil & gas clients. The other business lines are Data Centres; Utilities & Telecommunications; Transportation & Civic Infrastructure; and Advanced Manufacturing.
Accenture says many leading infrastructure owners already rely on Accenture as a reinvention partner for complex multiphase capital projects. It quoted a representative engagement with Vale, helping transform the delivery of a large-scale annual industrial capital portfolio for the global mining company through digital engineering, AI and integrated execution.
Accenture Construct unites capabilities Accenture has built through organic growth and a series of acquisitions. This includes more than 5,000 practitioners with industry expertise and hands-on delivery experience across the Americas, EMEA and APAC, many from specialist acquisitions including Alfa Consulting( Spain), Anser Advisory( US), Arca( Spain), BOSLAN( Spain), Comtech Group( Canada), Fibermind( Italy), Greenfish( Belgium), IQT Group( Italy), Orlade Group( France), Soben( UK) and Verum Partners( Brazil).
Accenture Construct Accenture says will also work seamlessly with Accenture’ s majority-owned joint venture, DLB Associates.“ DLB will continue to serve as the provider of full data centre lifecycle services, including energy optimisation and sustainable design, to US-based clients, from early planning and feasibility through to commissioning and operational readiness, complementing Accenture Construct’ s global capabilities.”
Paul Moore Editorial Director paul @ im-mining. com
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