Accenture has launched Accenture Construct, a new global business to help project owners plan, deliver and optimize large infrastructure and capital projects, from airports and power grids to data centers, rail networks and advanced manufacturing facilities.
Accenture Construct brings together Accenture’s capital projects business — which has grown four times over three years across strategic advisory, engineering, project delivery and technology services — to support delivery at scale and give project owners one accountable partner across the full project lifecycle. The new entity is designed to reinvent how capital projects are delivered to overcome delays, cost overruns and execution risk by evolving fragmented project delivery models with the use of AI and data.
Accenture Construct strengthens Accenture’s position to capture growth from three converging demand cycles: the AI infrastructure build-out of data center construction, the global energy transition, and long-term infrastructure replacement. The total addressable market for integrated owner-side capital project services is $260 billion and is projected to grow 7.5% annually to $348 billion in 2030.
“Global demand for critical infrastructure capital programs is accelerating at the same time as AI is fundamentally changing how projects are planned, delivered and operated,” said Julie Sweet, chair and CEO, Accenture. “Together, these shifts are significantly increasing our market opportunity for the capital project services provided by Accenture Construct, which combines deep capital project expertise with global scale, built to give owners a new level of visibility and certainty.”
Project complexity is growing faster than traditional, siloed delivery models can manage. Dozens of advisors, consultants, contractors and specialist firms are each accountable to deliver a piece of a project, while the owner absorbs the costs between them.
Backed by Accenture’s deep capital project expertise and leadership in data and AI, Accenture Construct addresses these challenges through a common project data foundation that creates a single operational view across the entire delivery ecosystem. Accenture Construct’s AI-enabled workflows shift delivery from reactive management to predictive decision-making. These capabilities, combined with Accenture’s global delivery capability, enable Accenture Construct to act as a single accountable partner from strategy through handover, reducing the transition costs, knowledge loss and accountability gaps that accumulate every time ownership transfers between the firms involved in a project. The result is earlier risk identification, better decisions, and greater certainty over cost, schedule, quality and asset performance.
“Capital projects haven’t lacked expertise; they’ve lacked alignment on shared success outcomes. Owners assemble exceptional teams, but accountability is often dispersed across the delivery ecosystem,” said Adam J. Shaw, CEO of Accenture Construct. “Accenture Construct brings those capabilities together under one accountable partner, combining deep delivery expertise with AI and data to help owners make better decisions, reduce uncertainty and deliver better outcomes.”