About Nick / Personal profile
Project controls and commercial practice, in the real world.
I’m Nick Garvey, a project controls and commercial professional with more than 25 years’ experience. I work full-time in a permanent senior commercial role at Mace Consult Ltd. This personal site is not connected to any business; the views I share here are my own.
MCIOB / FCaSA / FQSi / SC Cleared
What informs my perspective
Connecting the controls to the decisions.
My work brings together cost management, schedule and cost integration, risk, change, forecasting, governance and performance reporting. I’m interested in how reliable baselines, traceable information and clear reporting help teams understand where a programme stands and what decisions are coming next.
Across my career I’ve worked in defence infrastructure, government estates, highways, facilities management and public-sector infrastructure. Those different settings have shaped a practical view of programme controls: good information needs to be both rigorous and useful to the people making decisions.
I write about methods and professional practice, including earned value, cost forecasting, QCRA and QSRA, NEC processes, change management and stakeholder communication. Any examples are generalised and do not disclose confidential or security-sensitive information.
Career & qualifications
Experience across delivery environments.
I currently work in a senior commercial role at Mace Consult Ltd, with responsibilities across commercial and project controls activities. Earlier in my career I worked across commercial management, project management, quantity surveying, consultancy and site engineering in the UK and overseas.
Education & professional standing
BSc (Hons) Construction Management · HND Building Studies
Technical & contract experience
NEC3 and NEC4 knowledge; NEC4 ECC training in managing time and the programme; experience with Excel, SharePoint, MS Project, Power BI and P6 progress oversight.
Personal site / Employer separation
My views are my own.
This is Nick’s personal website and blog. It is not operated, authorised or endorsed by Mace Consult Ltd and is not an official Mace communication channel. Views and opinions expressed here are Nick’s own and do not represent those of his employer. Content is written in a personal capacity and does not disclose confidential, commercially sensitive or security-sensitive information.
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