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Use IPA’s Upstream Site Benchmarking to measure your site’s performance against top performing sites and arm your organization with the data and knowledge necessary to improve both competitiveness and predictability, and save millions in capital.

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How does the project’s technical production performance compare to other industry projects? What is the benchmark for the market-constrained production? What practices affected the production performance? What are the root causes for below-average production?

IPA’s benchmarking consortia provide their 50+ member companies with the highest level of access to IPA research, Best Practices, metrics, and tools proven to help produce better business results.

Founded in 1987, IPA is a benchmarking, research, and consulting organization devoted to the empirical research of capital projects and project systems.

Benchmarking is the first step for capital project systems to achieve predictability, drive competitiveness, and enable success. IPA has collected and studied detailed project data directly from owner organizations for decades, enabling us to determine empirical key performance indicators, and assess project and system performance relative to ...

IPA’s proprietary database and years of empirical research link capital project practices to outcomes. Our web-based software as a service (Saas) offerings and benchmarking reports enable project teams to tap into this unmatched knowledge and incorporate industry data into the decision-making process.

IPA helps owner companies improve their cost engineering capabilities at both the individual project level and project system level. Our impact extends beyond our clients, having received awards from prestigious professional trade associations for …

Value Improving Practices (VIPs) are tools and techniques identified by companies in the Industry Benchmarking Consortium (IBC) and verified through IPA research as disciplined practices that improve the value of capital projects.