Project Controls Expo UK 2026

Find nPlan on stand 4, and join our session: AI-Led Project Delivery: Choose Your Own LNG Adventure, led by nPlan CEO Dev Amratia. Tuesday 3rd November, 11:25-12:00, in the Taphouse (Risk, Resilience & Independent Assurance zone).

We're bringing something different to Project Controls Expo UK: a session in which the audience takes centre stage, grappling with the decisions that make or break a project in execution. It's a condensed version of the workshop we ran at the ECC Conference in Austin, Texas in September, in front of around 290 project controls and project management leaders - and it's our answer to the question of what AI-led project delivery actually means in practice. Doing beats listening, every time.

You'll be making three decisions about the construction of an LNG terminal on the Texas Gulf Coast:

• Modular fabrication, or traditional stick-build?
• A subcontractor goes bust mid-construction and three replacements have bid for the remaining scope. Which one do you take?
• As the facility nears completion, do you commission the trains one at a time, or run them in parallel and bet on specialist labour you may not be able to hire?

For each decision we'll put the options up in front of the room - and behind each option, a schedule showing how the project would run if you took it, the attached risk analysis, and a plain summary of the pros and cons. You'll weigh the data and vote via Slido, and we'll show you where the room landed and how your project execution went.

When we ran this at ECC, feedback was exceptional, with a number of delegates telling us afterwards that they'd faced exactly these kinds of decisions in the past, albeit without AI tooling to help them make the right calls. Everyone who takes part will also leave with a commemorative t-shirt for the LNG project they've just managed, designed specifically for the session and printed in a limited run.

A report by McKinsey states that 98% of megaprojects face cost/schedule overruns or delays. The reasons include flawed performance management, insufficient risk management, missed connections (lack of planning) amongst a few others which lead to loss of control on projects; missed deadlines; delayed phased completions; incurring penalties; incurring payment delays; erosion of stakeholders' trust and finally, with public projects, poor justification of taxpayer's money.

This calls for more enhanced dialogue between government, industry and professional bodies to come together to share lessons learnt, best practices and engage more collaboratively for successful project delivery. Project Controls Expo, started in 2010, offers this platform where a wide range of industry players (Oil & Gas, Aerospace, Pharmaceutical, Infrastructure, Construction, Government, Defence, etc) and professional bodies (APM, ACostE, ICEC, AIPM, PMI, AIQS etc) engage with a range of professionals and technology providers for the development/advancement of the profession.