Focus Areas

Energration’s cost engineering, project controls, and program management capabilities apply wherever DOE and federal programs must deliver complex capital projects under rigorous accountability and oversight requirements. The following areas represent our current focus — each grounded in direct past performance and transferable domain expertise.

National Laboratory Enablement

Support for secure and resilient compute capability, including the power systems required to sustain operations, aligned to federal expectations for accountability and oversight.

NNSA national security laboratories face a distinct set of delivery challenges: facilities must meet exacting security, safety basis, and quality assurance requirements while operating under DOE Order 413.3B Critical Decision governance and sustained congressional scrutiny on cost and schedule performance. New capability deployments — whether compute infrastructure, power systems, or laboratory modernization — require cost baselines that survive independent review and project controls that maintain credibility through multi-year execution.

Energration has delivered cost engineering and project controls directly to NNSA laboratories and their operating contractors:

  • PNNL
    • Class 3 independent cost estimates for the Microbial Molecular Phenotyping Capability (M2PC) Facility and the Stable Isotope Science and Engineering Laboratory (approximately $19M), including constructability review, quantity takeoff, site walk-downs, and fair cost evaluation support.
    • Previously delivered Government Fair Cost Estimates and Core Conversion Project rebaselining under the Battelle contract.
  • LANL
    • EVMS and Project Controls Group Leader for Triad National Security during the LANL management transition.
    • EVMS Consultant for BWXT Technical Services supporting the N3B contract transition.
    • Previously delivered EM program project planning, TRU waste QA, and waste management support under the UC/Energy Inc. contract.
  • Multi-laboratory EVMS
    • ICAS-EVMS implementation support for Lockheed Martin Aeronautics (with Humphreys & Associates).
    • Cost/schedule control systems for the Superconducting Super Collider Laboratory per DOE Order 4700.1.

What we bring to laboratory enablement programs: AACE-classified estimating at every level, quantitative risk analysis that produces defensible contingency positions, EVMS stand-up and transition expertise proven across LANL contract changes, NQA-1 quality assurance program development, and safety basis compliance support — all from practitioners who have worked inside these environments, not around them.

DOE Office of Environmental Management Managed Site Redevelopment

Support for data center development on former defense production sites, with early integration of delivery planning, controls, and risk management.

EM-managed sites carry unique project delivery complexity: layered environmental and regulatory obligations, D&D scope that must be sequenced against new construction, infrastructure constraints inherited from decades of defense production, and oversight structures that demand full cost transparency from the earliest planning stages. Programs that defer rigorous cost engineering and project controls until after design maturity find themselves re-baselining under pressure at the CD gates where independent review is most demanding.

Energration has operated across the major EM-managed sites in the DOE complex:

  • Hanford
    • Led forensic cost analysis and REA development for HMIS, including a claims package spanning approximately 70 discrete scopes with full lateral cost traceability. Across sustained REA and claims engagements at the site, recovered approximately $2.7M in fee adjustments.
    • Delivered 17 AACE Class 5 through Class 1 estimates for the Annual Reliability Project Investment Portfolio, including indirect cost validation, quantitative risk assessments, and P6 schedule integration.
    • Produced Class 5 budget estimates for new infrastructure (L-923 200E Area Fuel Station, approximately $20M) covering civil, structural, electrical, and mechanical systems.
    • Previously delivered cost engineering, scheduling, and baseline integration for Fluor Hanford (P3/P6 implementation for 200+ users), CH2M HILL Hanford Group, DOE Richland Operations Office, and DOE Office of River Protection.
  • Portsmouth and Paducah
    • Director of Project Controls and Site-Wide Integration at Fluor-BWXT Portsmouth GDP.
    • DOE Project Controls Consultant to the Portsmouth Site Office.
    • Proposal Manager for the $1.6B Portsmouth D&D Project contract extension (OWDF and facility D&D).
    • Basis of estimate development for the 2025 Paducah Federal Site Lifecycle Estimate covering D&D, environmental cleanup, and waste disposition under DOE Order 413.3B.
  • Oak Ridge
    • Engineering Manager for the Transuranic Waste Processing Center (Category II nuclear facility) at ORNL, leading multi-discipline engineering, DSA compliance, and engineering program implementation.
    • Previously delivered environmental management program project analysis, project controls, and strategic planning for Bechtel Jacobs.
  • Additional EM sites
    • Multi-year technical support contracts spanning Portsmouth, Paducah, SRS, and LANL.
    • Environmental restoration project management, cost estimating, and scheduling at INL (Bechtel BWXT Idaho).
    • Earned value, nuclear safety engineering, and baseline validation at Rocky Flats (Kaiser Hill).
  • Government-side acquisition support
    • Cost realism and reasonableness analysis for Hanford acquisitions (DOE-RL), including offeror cost proposal evaluation, IGCE development, and RFP cost criteria review.

What we bring to site redevelopment programs: lifecycle cost estimates that account for D&D sequencing and environmental constraints, project estimating plans and acquisition strategies built for DOE Order 413.3B compliance from CD-0 forward, integrated project controls that tie cost, schedule, and risk into a single defensible baseline, and forensic cost capability for the claims and equitable adjustments that complex site conditions inevitably produce.

Power Generation Deployment (Nuclear and Conventional)

Execution support across construction, startup, testing, and power ascension phases, reinforced by schedule, cost, EVMS, and risk disciplines.

Power generation construction — whether advanced nuclear, small modular reactor, or conventional — follows a delivery arc that Energration’s team knows from direct experience in DOE capital projects: long design cycles governed by Critical Decision gates, construction execution under earned value management, nuclear safety and quality assurance requirements that cannot be deferred, and commissioning and startup phases where schedule risk compounds rapidly. The disciplines required to control cost and schedule through power ascension are the same disciplines Energration has delivered across the DOE complex.

Relevant experience and transferable capability:

  • Nuclear facility engineering and safety basis
    • Engineering Manager for the Transuranic Waste Processing Center (Category II nuclear) at ORNL, encompassing multi-discipline engineering management, Documented Safety Analysis (DSA) compliance, and authorization basis support.
    • Licensed Professional Engineer with DOE “Q” clearance eligibility.
  • Construction-grade estimating
    • Detailed unit-cost estimating across civil, structural, electrical, and mechanical systems, demonstrated on infrastructure projects at Hanford (L-923 200E Area Fuel Station, approximately $20M).
    • AACE-classified estimating from Class 5 conceptual screening through Class 1 definitive estimates, aligned to each construction phase.
  • Schedule risk analysis
    • Quantitative schedule risk analysis with probabilistic completion dates using Monte Carlo simulation per DOE G 413.3-21A and AACE RP 40R-08.
    • Critical path analysis and resource-loaded scheduling in Primavera P6, integrated to cost baselines.
  • EVMS through construction and commissioning
    • Full EIA-748-D earned value management: baseline development, change control, performance measurement, variance analysis, and EAC development.
    • EVMS stand-up, transition, and surveillance support demonstrated at LANL (Triad and N3B transitions) and Portsmouth (site-wide integration).
    • IPMR/IPMDAR Format 1 through 7 reporting and VAR production.
  • NQA-1 quality assurance
    • Development and implementation of NQA-1 quality assurance programs for nuclear facility projects, including the procedural infrastructure required for construction, testing, and startup under DOE oversight.
  • Lifecycle planning and CD gate delivery
    • Project estimating plan development, preliminary project execution plans, and acquisition strategy support under DOE Order 413.3B, covering design, procurement, construction, operation, and closeout phases.

What we bring to power generation programs: the cost engineering, scheduling, earned value, and risk analysis disciplines required to control a major construction project from CD-0 through startup and power ascension – delivered by a team that has executed these functions inside DOE nuclear facility environments, under the same regulatory and oversight frameworks that govern new power generation deployment.