PTAG at CII’s Fall Board of Advisors Meeting

Five members of the PTAG team will be at CII’s Fall Board of Advisors Meeting in Houston, November 17 to 18.

Representing PTAG are Deborah DeGezelle, Director of Education, Benchmarking & Performance Assessment; Dan Fahrer, Board Alternate and Chair of CII RT-442; Michael Dubreuil, Managing Partner and PTAG’s Advisor on the CII Board of Advisors; Jay Moser, Senior Partner, Energy & Industrial Projects; and Tedd Weitzman, Senior Advisor, PMIS Delivery, AI & Emerging Technology.

RT-442 exists because new nuclear has not held cost or schedule to target, and the front end planning tools the industry relies on were built for industrial projects, not for reactors. The team is tailoring FEP and the PDRI to the nuclear segment, SMRs included, and the output is a new PDRI rather than a commentary on the old one.

That work is why we are in the room. Owners carry the definition risk on these programs. We sit on their side of the table and keep the front end honest before sanction, which is the only point where PDRI changes a decision rather than documenting one.

The Board meeting wraps midday on the 18th. Deborah, Michael, Jay, and Tedd carry on to the Global AWP+ Conference, which opens the same day at the Hyatt Regency Conroe and runs through the 20th.