Barış Emre Özçelik at a desk with drawings and a laptop, a site behind

Barış Emre Özçelik Planning & Project Controls Lead
Civil Engineer · PMP®

THE PROJECT CONTROL HUB

Nuclear · mining · port · high-rise

Planning is not a
poster on the wall.

A written curriculum in project controls, for engineers who want to understand the job the way it works on site rather than the way it is described in a textbook.

Start here See the curriculum

199Topics

8Tracks

100%Free

ScheduleKeep the project on track. CostControl the numbers. RiskBe ready. ContractKnow the rules. ClaimsProtect your position. ReportingTurn data into insight. InterfacesWork together. Life of a ProjectFrom start to finish.

The curriculum

Eight tracks, complete and free, read in order. Each one assumes the ones before it.

Complete Curriculum

Schedule Management

How to build a programme, defend it when it slips, and explain it to a room that does not want to hear it.

Complete · 27 topics

Cost & Cash

Where the numbers come from — estimating, budgeting, measurement, and the cash that decides whether a profitable job survives.

Complete · 24 topics

Risk

What has not happened yet: where the risks on a job actually come from, and what a probability is worth once somebody has to act on it.

Complete · 18 topics

Contract Management

Where entitlement is won or lost long before anyone writes a claim — notices, the periods that kill them, and who the Engineer answers to.

Complete · 20 topics

Claims & Delay Analysis

What the right you kept is actually worth: forensic delay methods, why they disagree, and float and concurrency in front of a tribunal.

Complete · 28 topics

Reporting

Where every number in a report is born, who owns it, when it closes, and what breaks when nobody has defined any of that.

Complete · 26 topics

Interfaces

What changes when a job has more than one contract and no single chain of command giving the instructions.

Complete · 17 topics

The Life of a Project

The order the work actually arrives in, from the investment decision to the archive, and which record is born at each stage.

Complete · 39 topics

New here? Start with the ten-minute orientation

The Toolbox

The software, once the thinking is in place.

Excel for Project Controls

Where everything begins. On day one, it’s all Excel — BOQ, progress, manpower, equipment, daily reports, the procurement log.

Primavera P6

The industry standard for planning. Where the logic you have learned becomes a programme somebody else can open.

Power BI for Project Controls

Turn P6 and Excel data into reporting that updates itself instead of being rebuilt every month.

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Planning is not a poster on the wall.