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PTAG Completes Acquisition of Construct-X, Expanding Capabilities in Advanced Work Packaging and Lean Project Delivery

July 28, 2025/in Contstruct-x, News/by Elnaz Khaleghi

Toronto, ON – July 28, 2025– PTAG Inc. (“PTAG”), a leading provider of integrated project consulting services for capital projects, today announced it has completed its acquisition of Construct-X, a U.S.-based consultancy recognized for its leadership in Advanced Work Packaging (AWP) and Lean Project Delivery.

The transaction closed on June 30, 2025. With the integration now complete, Construct-X’s tools, methodologies, and expert team have joined PTAG’s expanding Advanced Project Delivery platform to accelerate digital transformation and operational excellence across the capital project lifecycle.

“This acquisition marks a significant milestone in PTAG’s mission to lead the industry in project delivery innovation.”

“Construct-X brings unmatched expertise in AWP and Lean practices that align perfectly with PTAG’s client-first collaborative project delivery approach. Together, we are even better positioned to drive measurable improvements in predictability, performance, and project outcomes.”

said Michael Dubreuil, Managing Partner at PTAG.

As part of the acquisition:
• Ted Blackmon, formerly CEO of Construct-X, joins PTAG’s Board of Directors and executive management team as Special Advisor.
• Fernando Espana now leads PTAG’s Advanced Project Delivery practice, scaling project best practices globally.

Construct-X has been at the forefront of AWP deployment for nearly two decades, enabling owners, EPCs, and contractors to adopt structured, scalable delivery models that enhance field productivity and capital efficiency.

“PTAG and Construct-X share a common vision for transforming how capital projects are delivered.”

“We’re excited to bring our legacy and expertise into the PTAG ecosystem and continue shaping the future of AWP, Lean, and digitally enabled project delivery into what the industry is calling Advanced Project Delivery.”

said Ted Blackmon.

All Construct-X employees have successfully transitioned to PTAG. Clients can expect seamless service continuity and an expanded suite of integrated offerings.

Interested in working with PTAG? If you are a project owner, an EPC, contractor, or professional seeking to elevate project delivery or advance your career with an industry leader, we’d love to connect.

15th Annual Advanced Work Packaging (AWP) North American Conference

September 19, 2023/in Conference, Events, Project Controls/by Elnaz Khaleghi

Advanced Work Packaging with the emphasis on the “A”

PTAG is proud to be a Platinum Sponsor for the 15^th Annual Advanced Work Packaging (AWP) North American Conference in Houston, Texas, on October 10 and 11, 2023.

This Conference is supported by the Construction Industry Institute (CII) and promises to be an insightful gathering of industry leaders and experts.

Come network with industry leaders. Historically owners, EPC, and contractors have constituted approximately 70% of the total attendees.

Some of the biggest global constructors, engineers and technology providers attend this conference.

This Year’s Program

This year’s conference promises to be bigger than ever with the following categories being covered:

AWP with the Emphasis on “A”
Breaking Research
Case Study
Data, Data, Data
Leveraging Technologies
Next Gen Project Delivery
People, People, People
Reducing Waste & Decarbonization

Big Names, Outstanding Network

PTAG’s Michael Dubreuil, Bruce Burwell, Keith Henson and Michael Mcbean are honored to be presenting in the following sessions:

Tuesday, October 10th, 11:30 am

Using the Big Room as a Tactical Command Centre for Field-based Planning Collaboration on Brownfield Projects

Speakers: Keith Henson & Michael McBean

Keith Henson

Michael McBean

Tuesday, October 10th , 3 pm

Next Gen Project Delivery

Speaker: Michael Dubreuil

Wednesday, October 11th , 10:30 am

Culture Change Through Adoption of Collaborative Behaviour

Speakers: Bruce Burwell – PTAG & Amy Cameron – OPG

Wednesday, October 11th , 11:30 am

Next Gen Project Delivery – A Deeper Dive

Speakers: Michael Dubreuil – PTAG, Fernando Espana – Construct-X, Mark Childerson – Garner, John Strickland – Collaborative Flow, LLC & James Choo – PPI

Who Should Attend?

Reach out to us ahead of time and let us know if you will be there. Hope to see many of you there!

Join the presentation on the spectrum of approaches to Contract Strategy at CII’s AWP + Lean Virtual Summit to learn various contracting strategies that can provide the most benefit in either your Advanced work packaging or Lean project scenarios.

September 22, 2021/in Events, Webinars/by Kshitij

The Construction Industry Institute (CII) is presenting its first-ever CII AWP & Lean Summit focused on the exploration of (and recommendations around) aligning and combining Advanced Work Packaging and Lean Construction approaches for effective and efficient integrated project delivery.

PTAG’s Partner for Capital Projects, Bruce Burwell, a subject matter expert on contracting strategies will be discussing contracting approaches available that incorporate Advanced Work Packaging alongside Mr. John Strickland, Project Delivery Leader at Burns & McDonnell who will focus on approaches with a Lean Construction perspective. This session will help you understand how to apply Lean methods and Advanced Work Packaging in a Collaborative contracting model.

Wednesday, September 29^th, 2021
7:30am CDT / 8:30am EST / 5:30am PST

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Construction Industry Institute’s (CII) best practice – Advanced Work Packaging (AWP) is a planned, executable process that encompasses the work on an EPC project, beginning with initial planning and continuing through detailed design and construction execution. AWP focuses on bringing alignment amongst project teams – engineering, procurement, construction at the front-end of the project. The team helps determine the best project execution strategy to have a successful outcome. With the end in mind approach, AWP helps improve project visibility and predictability.

Lean Construction Institute’s Lean Project Delivery (LPD or Lean-IPD) aligns the key project participants as an integrated team with the common objective of acting as one team to deliver a project that creates the best value possible for the owner and success for all the stakeholders. The integrated project team helps the owner decide what they want and not only realize decisions and perform activities.

Lean-IPD offers collaborative tools to provide a clear framework with specific goals. Whereas AWP is a method that develops a clear path to construction, develops work packages that support the path to construction, aligns stakeholders, and has dedicated planners that affords the foreman the time needed in the field with the trades and crew.

Often projects face challenges in terms of their performance by way of budget, cost, and schedule overruns. Some of the common issues faced are but are not limited to scope creep, lack of communication between the stakeholders, lack of clear objectives, inadequate risk management, conflicts, and lack of accountability, etc.

To improve project performance, we need to change the way we deliver projects. Choosing the right contract strategy early in the project can help address these issues and significantly improve your project delivery. Aligning various stakeholders involved in the project such as owners’ team, supplier, sub-contractor, engineering, construction, etc. is important to meet the common objective i.e., the successful outcome of the project. However, one size does not fit all, and it is imperative to learn various strategies available that would suit your project requirements.

This joint session will discover multiple contracting approaches to strengthen both Advanced Work Packaging and Lean Project Delivery.

The topic for the session is spectrum of approaches to Contract Strategy.

Wednesday, September 29^th, 2021
7:30am CDT / 8:30am EST / 5:30am PST

Register today to attend the event.

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If you would like to learn more about Contracting Strategies, please contact us.

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