About
A publication about the long life of built things.
Projects Advisors examines what happens to major physical assets across their whole life — how they are conceived, how they are delivered, what survives the handover, and what it takes to own them well.
It exists because the literature on delivering projects is extensive and the literature on inheriting their output is thin. The interesting problems are at the joins, and the joins are where almost nobody writes.
Who writes this
The writing here comes from practitioners who have worked inside major capital programmes — on the delivery side, on the assurance side, and on the side that inherits the result. That is the extent of what is said about authorship, and it is deliberate.
An unattributed publication is unusual, so it is worth being straight about the reasoning. Writing about how programmes actually behave is more useful when it is not filtered through the commercial interests of whoever is publishing it. Removing the name removes the temptation to write for positioning rather than for accuracy.
The trade-off is that you cannot check the author's credentials. In exchange, everything here is written so that it does not need them: arguments are shown rather than asserted, claims are attributed to published sources, and where something is contested it is described as contested.
How it is written
Structural, not anecdotal
Pieces describe how programmes of a given type behave, not what happened on a particular job. Nothing here is drawn from confidential material, and no client, project or organisation is ever the subject.
Sourced where it matters
Figures are attributed. Standards are referenced rather than reproduced. Where a claim rests on judgement rather than evidence, it says so.
One stage at a time
Every article belongs to exactly one stage of the lifecycle, so the whole body of writing accumulates into a single argument rather than a pile of posts.
Nothing is for sale here
This is a publication. There is no service being marketed, no newsletter capture, no gated content and no tracking beyond ordinary site analytics.