Executive summary: How are project owners performing on the maturity curve? -- Maturity in preparation: Setting yourself up for success -- Maturity in risk, controls and governance: Keeping projects on track -- Maturity in performance: Project success rates and contingencies -- Maturity in relationships: The new dynamics of collaboration -- Conclusion -- About the survey -- KPMG?s Engineering & Construction expertise -- Bookshelf

Provides clients and advisors with critical insights into the trends and issues affecting the industry. Focuses on the challenges facing owners as they seek to climb the maturity curve. Project owners are continually striving for a balance between power, responsibility and control. They have the power that comes from control over the budget, yet are ultimately responsible to their corporate Boards and Chief Executive Officers. They bear the responsibility for huge projects worth billions of dollars, along with the associated commercial and reputational costs of failure. Yet, project owners have to cede much of the project execution risk and control to industry experienced engineers and contractors.