Closing the Construction to Operations Readiness Gap
The industry-led non-profit bringing companies together to close the readiness gap through common standards for Outcome Assurance, Operational Readiness, and Commissioning.
Project Completion Does Not Guarantee Project Success
8.5%
Of 16,000+ major projects studied, the share delivered on time and on budget. Only 0.5% were on time, on budget, and delivered the promised benefits.
Flyvbjerg & Gardner, How Big Things Get Done (2023). Oxford Global Projects database.
65%
Of industrial megaprojects fail against their business objectives — averaging 30% over cost, 30% over schedule, and roughly half of planned first-year production.
Merrow, Industrial Megaprojects, Independent Project Analysis. Study of 318 global megaprojects.
3 in 4
Of the 20 points where Commissioning and start-up most often break down, three-quarters occur during construction — before Commissioning has begun. Projects celebrate at construction completion. By then the damage is done.
CII Research Team 333, Managing Transitions between Construction Completion, Pre-Commissioning, Commissioning, and Startup (SP333-1, 2017), Construction Industry Institute.
The Readiness Gap
Capital projects are governed intensely through scope, schedule, and cost. But completing the project does not prove that the resulting asset is ready to operate and deliver its intended outcomes.
Between construction completion and sustained operations sits the readiness gap — the transition where systems, people, processes, information, and operating capability must come together.
ICxA exists to help industry close that gap.
Delivered scope is a project milestone.
Performance is the investment outcome.
Built by Industry
ICxA is an independent non-profit bringing owners, engineering firms, contractors, commissioning specialists, technology providers, advisers and other industry participants together around a common objective: closing the readiness gap.
What ICxA does
Common Standards
ICxA develops common industry standards defining the evidence required to demonstrate readiness across Outcome Assurance, Operational Readiness, and Commissioning.
Industry Collaboration
ICxA brings companies from across the capital-project industry together to develop, improve, and advance a common approach to project readiness.
Knowledge & Capability
ICxA builds the industry capability needed to apply the standards through research, the Body of Knowledge, professional certification, and education.
Bringing the Industry Together
Owners & Operators
You inherit the asset and the consequences. ICxA standards define what you should require before you accept it.
Lenders, Insurers, & Investors
Completion is not performance. ICxA gives you a common framework for asking how a project governs readiness — and a consistent basis for comparing the answer across a portfolio.
Engineering, EPC, & Delivery Partners
Turn construction completion into operational readiness. ICxA standards provide a common framework for integrating commissioning, readiness, and outcome requirements into project delivery.
Technology, Advisory & Readiness Specialists
Bring specialist capability into a common industry framework. ICxA provides shared standards that help technology, advisory, commissioning, and readiness providers align their work around measurable project outcomes.
Help Close the Readiness Gap
ICxA brings companies across the capital-project industry together to develop and advance the common standards needed to move projects successfully from construction into operations.