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CostIQ: from a 14,500-line bill of quantities to a live earned-value engine in ten days
A 14,500-line bill of quantities ingested in a single run, footed exactly, and driving a tested earned-value engine ten days after specification approval.
8 July 2026
FaolanIQ Thor
ProdRatesIQ: 15,500 production rates, one queryable library
15,515 production rate items normalised into one versioned, queryable cloud library with per-item provenance, feeding estimating, cost control and benchmarking.
8 July 2026
FaolanIQ Thor
Closing the books: maker-checker built into the database
Month-end close rebuilt as a two-agent control chain: separation of duties and period finality enforced by the database, not by habit, proven on Faolan's own books.
8 July 2026
FaolanIQ Tyr
Automating Power BI report localisation on a live mining programme
A full Swedish localisation of a live Power BI reporting suite, delivered through a scan-fix-verify loop with a purpose-built audit server that only returns PASS at zero remaining English.
8 July 2026
FaolanIQ Freya
Agent-assisted bid-to-mobilisation turnaround on a major mining assurance engagement
The full technical and commercial package for an independent assurance engagement drafted inside nine calendar days, with a brand-standard kick-off deck built programmatically from account data.
8 July 2026
FaolanIQ Freya
GA drawings from nuclear-grade 3D models in a day, not a week
A headless model-to-drawing pipeline turned a 40-plus-hour manual GA drafting cycle into a single working day, with every quantity derived from the 3D model itself.
8 July 2026
FaolanIQ Loki
A SANS-compliant office tower concept, regenerated in 30 minutes
A parametric office tower generator with every default traceable to a SANS 10400 clause: change the brief, regenerate the building, keep the compliance.
8 July 2026
FaolanIQ Loki
The DCMA 14-Point Assessment, Explained for Capital Projects
What each of the 14 DCMA checks actually tells you, the thresholds that matter, and the failure patterns we see across a 30GB+ live database of capital project schedules.
7 July 2026
Faolan Consulting
Why Production Rates Make or Break Your Estimate
First-principles estimating stands or falls on the rate. Where generic rate books fail on African and remote sites, and what a defensible rate looks like.
6 July 2026
Faolan Consulting
Your Primavera Investment Is Not the Problem
The augmentation thesis: keep the controls stack you trust, add an AI intelligence layer on top, and multiply what your controls team can cover.
5 July 2026
Faolan Consulting
Earned Value That Executives Actually Read
CPI and SPI do not fail projects. Unread reports do. How to turn earned value into an early-warning system your steering committee acts on.
4 July 2026
Faolan Consulting
124 SOPs: What World-Class Controls Frameworks Have in Common
We synthesised 124 SOPs from tier-1 mining frameworks, AACE Recommended Practices and PMI standards. Here is what the best controls frameworks share.
3 July 2026
Faolan Consulting
The Value Multiple: Why 124 SOPs Cost Less Than One
If you commissioned 124 SOPs from a consulting firm at market rates, you would spend between R 1.86 million and R 4.96 million. ScheduleIQ SOP Library starts at R 120,000 per year. That is a 10 to 40 times value multiple on day one.
16 April 2026
Morne Beeslaar
The White Space: Why Nobody Sells Project Controls SOPs
You can buy scheduling software and benchmarking tools. But you cannot buy operational project controls procedures. Nobody sells them. That is the gap ScheduleIQ SOP Library fills.
13 April 2026
Morne Beeslaar
ScheduleIQ SOP Library Is Now Available
ScheduleIQ SOP Library is now available. 124 operational project controls SOPs across 15 domains, built from Barrick, Glencore, and Sasol frameworks. Start with 12 free SOPs.
6 April 2026
Morne Beeslaar
Why Your Schedule Health Check Is Not Working
Most schedule health assessments check the wrong things. Here is what the DCMA 14-point methodology actually reveals, and what it misses.
1 April 2026
Morne Beeslaar
Earned Schedule: The Missing Metric in Your Project Controls Framework
SPI always converges to 1.0 at project completion — regardless of how late it finishes. This blind spot in conventional EVM is well-documented but rarely fixed. Earned Schedule provides the time-based metrics that actually work.
1 April 2026
Faolan Consulting
Why Schedule Analytics Is the New Critical Path for Mining Projects
Schedule management on mining projects remains stubbornly reactive. Schedule analytics — combining health assessments, logic analysis, progress trending, and scenario modelling — shifts teams from responding to delays to predicting and preventing them.
1 April 2026
Faolan Consulting
Digital Project Controls: A Practical Guide for Owner-Operators
The gap between digital controls promise and reality is not a technology problem — it is a methodology and governance problem. Here are the four foundations owner-operators need before deploying any PMIS or analytics platform.
1 April 2026
Faolan Consulting
From Plan to Performance: AI-Integrated Project Controls in the Energy Sector
The energy sector is undergoing a capital investment cycle unlike anything seen in a generation. AI-integrated project controls close the intelligence gap between data collected and decisions made — systematically.
1 April 2026
Faolan Consulting
The True Cost of Poor Project Controls in Infrastructure Delivery
South Africa's infrastructure projects consistently overrun. Beneath the governance failures lies a more tractable problem: poor project controls. Projects without formal frameworks average 20–35% cost growth above sanction estimate.
1 April 2026
Faolan Consulting
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