Mining & Infrastructure - Advisory, Delivery, Recovery
Smarter cost control. Stronger project outcomes.
Project & cost control intelligence
Driving structured cost control, project clarity, and confident decision-making.
Summary overview: Project & Cost Control Intelligence forms the commercial backbone of TacminMadini’s integrated delivery services. Delivered through Tacmin.ai, this service transforms tendered scope into a live execution control model that aligns cost, schedule, and forecasting into one structured framework. Tacmin.ai operates as the intelligence engine behind this process — establishing cost baselines from first principles, building logic-based schedules with achievable outputs, and maintaining commercial alignment through ongoing tracking and progress-based valuation. It enables project teams to manage complexity in real time, prevent overspending, and keep delivery performance in step with financial expectations. This approach provides the visibility, control, and accountability required to meet budget, protect margin, and deliver on time.
Cost baseline & resource optimisation
Laying the groundwork for budget integrity and delivery readiness
Using first-principles estimation, we develop activity-based unit rates that reflect practical production outputs and define the labour, equipment, and material inputs required for each BOQ item. Profit and overheads are excluded to establish a net “allowed cost” baseline — a commercially sound benchmark used to control spend and track performance. In parallel, we quantify total resource requirements across the scope and apply resource analysis to optimise usage, reduce waste, and ensure readiness. This ensures the cost model is aligned with real-world delivery inputs, enabling confident planning and early commercial control.
Customer Value:
Integrated execution-ready scheduling
Turning priced scope into practical, resource-driven delivery plans
The BOQ is broken into detailed, logic-based activities with achievable production rates, multi-resource team allocations, and critical path sequencing — creating a schedule that reflects how the project will be delivered, not just how it was priced. This schedule then becomes the control framework for execution, with Tacmin.ai providing ongoing tracking and project controls to ensure progress aligns with planned outputs, resource sequencing, and milestone delivery. By integrating daily activity planning with real-time performance monitoring, this service keeps projects on track, critical paths active, and timelines achievable.
Customer Value:
Forecasting, valuation & capital alignment
Keeping cost, progress, and capital drawdowns in continuous sync
Cost and schedule are integrated into a single control framework that enables live tracking against the allowed cost baseline. Tacmin.ai supports ongoing forecasting, monthly valuations, and cost-to-complete modelling — ensuring that performance is measured against verified progress, not assumptions. This process helps manage funding drawdowns, prevent overspending, and maintain commercial accuracy throughout execution. As the project evolves, financial forecasts are continuously updated to reflect actual site performance, enabling tight budget control, early visibility of overruns, and well-informed commercial decisions at every stage.
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Why it matters: Without integrated cost and schedule control, projects face delivery drift, resource misalignment, and commercial exposure. Project & Cost Control Intelligence establishes a unified structure that connects planning with performance — enabling teams to track execution against verified progress, control budgets before they slip, and respond decisively to risks. It turns the tender into a practical delivery model and keeps it on course, ensuring that what was priced is what gets delivered — accurately, predictably, and profitably.
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Project & cost control intelligence
In addition to assisting our clients in delivering projects on time and within budget, it is at our project control centres where we connect digital training content with practical and classroom-based learning to ensure competence through technology.
our off-site project control centre
works in close collaboration with
our on-site project control expertise
Sarel Blaauw
senior partner
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