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Led by someone who reads the logic.

Beck Franklin is led by Emmanuel Ugbaja, Principal and Chief Executive Officer. He has spent more than a decade in project controls on complex construction and infrastructure projects, and he brings that judgment to every review.

Project controls experience
10+ yrs
Sectors: commercial, industrial, infrastructure
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Leadership

In his words.

Emmanuel Ugbaja, Principal and Chief Executive Officer of Beck Franklin
Principal and Chief Executive Officer

Emmanuel Ugbaja

I’m Emmanuel Ugbaja. For more than a decade, I’ve helped teams deliver complex, high-stakes construction and infrastructure projects. I’ve worked through the questions that matter when commitments are on the line. Does the baseline reflect how the work can actually be built? Is the delay confined to one work area, or will it move a contractual milestone? What can the team change now to protect the finish date?

At Beck Franklin, I bring that judgment to every review. I compare the schedule with field progress, look at how changes affect the work that follows, and explain the implications in terms owners and contractors can act on. The goal is to give clients enough visibility to make the hard decisions while they still have options.

More than 10 years in project controls · Commercial, industrial and infrastructure work
Email emmanuel.u@beckfranklin.com
The review

What he looks at in a review.

Six questions every schedule has to answer before Emmanuel puts his name to a finding.

Baseline

Can the work be built this way?

Durations, sequence and crew logic tested against how the trades will actually move through the site, not how the bid hoped they would.

Logic

Is every activity tied to the finish?

Open ends, hard constraints and long lags found and named. A date pinned by a constraint is a wish, not a forecast.

Progress

Does the update match the field?

Reported percent complete compared with what is installed. The data date has to tell the truth before anything else can.

Driving path

Which chain is driving the finish?

The driving path traced from the data date to each contractual milestone, with float read period over period, not once.

Delay

Confined, or milestone-moving?

Each delay placed on the network to see whether float absorbs it in one work area or it reaches a contractual milestone.

Action

What can change this month?

Resequencing, added shifts, early procurement or a scope decision, each priced in days and dollars while it can still help.

How he runs an engagement

Senior judgment, from the first call.

  1. E1

    He takes the first conversation

    Your first call is with the person who will read your XER file, not a business developer reading a script.

  2. E2

    Field first, then the file

    Every finding starts by comparing the schedule with what is installed. A clean schedule that disagrees with the site is still wrong.

  3. E3

    Answers in your terms

    Owners hear what it means for the milestone and the budget. Contractors hear which sequence to change and by when.

  4. E4

    Repeat work, same judgment

    On the next similar project the setup carries over, and the work runs at a highly discounted Program Rate.

Write to Emmanuel

Bring him the date that worries you.

Send the schedule and the milestone at risk to emmanuel.u@beckfranklin.com, or start with the project form.