June 2025
If you’ve managed or supported a major capital project, you know this truth all too well: change is inevitable. Design shifts, vendor delays, scope creep, cost escalations. These aren’t exceptions, they’re expected. Yet many organizations still rely on spreadsheets, emails and manual workarounds to track and manage change. That’s a risky way to operate when millions (sometimes billions) are on the line.
With Contruent Enterprise, change doesn’t have to mean chaos. Instead, it becomes a strategic lever for control, accountability and optimization. Built specifically for capital project owners and EPCs, Contruent’s Change Management functionality enables teams to monitor, manage and mitigate project changes with clarity, precision and speed.
Let’s break down how it works and why it matters more than ever.
A Single Source of Truth
Contruent Enterprise integrates change tracking directly into your project’s cost and schedule baseline. Every potential or approved modification—whether it’s a contractor claim, material substitution, or scope update—is logged, evaluated and visible in one unified platform. No disconnected spreadsheets. No version control headaches. Just clean, traceable data.
Using Contruent Enterprise’s “Trend” and “Change Order” tools, you can forecast, analyze and manage the impact of changes in real time. Each change is linked to financial and operational consequences, allowing for smarter decisions before things spiral out of scope or budget.
Automated Workflows Reduce Risk and Bottlenecks
Contruent Enterprise’s change workflows help you enforce internal governance without slowing down your team. Approval routes are automatically determined by your pre-set delegation of authority policies, so there is no more chasing down signatures or unclear chains of command. Mobile approvals and in-system notifications keep decisions moving, even across distributed teams.
Contruent Enterprise supports complex scenarios such as partial approvals, multi-level review boards and time-phased changes linked to schedule activities. You can also group related Change Orders into a single “Change Request” to streamline board approvals and maintain audit clarity.
Visibility That Drives Better Decisions
Change is not just a financial event. It affects field execution, scheduling, procurement and even stakeholder relationships. Contruent’s built-in dashboards and reports let you see how a single change may ripple through the entire project.
You get immediate visibility into pending, approved and executed changes, and can generate reports by phase, vendor, WBS, cost center and more. Contruent Enterprise also supports EVM, allowing you to tie change tracking into performance indices like CPI and SPI. This empowers your project leaders to stay one step ahead of trouble.
Reduce Closeout Delays and Compliance Gaps
Projects often get stuck in closeout not because of the work itself, but because no one knows exactly what changed and why. Contruent Enterprise provides period-to-period traceability, full audit trails and documentation at every step, from potential trend to final contract execution.
This makes compliance reporting, stakeholder reviews and funding audits dramatically faster and more accurate. One Contruent customer, IHI E&C, reduced time spent during project closeout by 15 percent thanks to the system’s structured change history and centralized data management. Read the full story.
Say Goodbye to Spreadsheet Risk
Spreadsheets still dominate change management at many companies. But they weren’t designed for collaborative capital project controls. They are error-prone, hard to audit and incapable of showing real-time impact across interconnected systems.
Contruent Enterprise replaces these fragile systems with robust, auditable workflows that scale. Whether you are managing one project or a global portfolio, you get the tools to implement change without sacrificing control.
Ready to Rein in Project Change?
Change is inevitable. Losing control isn’t. With Contruent Enterprise, you gain a purpose-built solution that embeds change management into your cost, schedule and project controls infrastructure from day one.
To see how Contruent Enterprise can help your team take charge of change and deliver projects on-time and on-budget, request a demo today.