ROMAN Consulting Group Joins the Construction Industry Institute
- Roger Farish
- 6 days ago
- 2 min read
ROMAN Consulting Group has joined the Construction Industry Institute (CII) as a member company, extending the firm's front-end planning expertise into one of the capital projects industry's most established research bodies.
For more than 40 years, CII has brought owners, contractors, and academics together to solve the hardest problems in capital project delivery. Its research on tools like the Project Definition Rating Index (PDRI) and Advanced Work Packaging (AWP) has measurably improved how projects are defined and delivered across the industry. Membership is not a credential many independent estimating firms hold, and it comes with an expectation of active contribution, not passive access to published research.
ROMAN's Role Inside CII
ROMAN's involvement centers on two commitments that build directly on the firm's front-end planning experience.
The first is Research Team RT-442, Front-End Planning for Nuclear. Roger Farish, ROMAN's founder, is joining the CII team adapting front-end planning and PDRI specifically for the nuclear power segment. Nuclear and DOE projects carry regulatory and risk demands that standard front-end planning tools were never built to handle, and RT-442 exists to close that gap.
The second is a seat on the CII Board of Advisors. In this role, Farish helps set research priorities and policy direction across the institute, representing ROMAN's perspective on where front-end planning practice needs to go next.
"I've spent years applying front-end planning and PDRI on capital projects," said Farish. "Getting to help adapt them for one of the toughest segments out there, rather than just draw on the finished research, is what made this worth doing."
What Membership Adds to ROMAN's Front-End Work
Sitting on a CII research team changes the vantage point. Instead of applying front-end planning tools once they are published, ROMAN is now part of the process that decides how those tools evolve, starting with how PDRI gets adapted for a segment as demanding as nuclear.
That vantage point feeds back into ROMAN's independent reviews. Reviews are only as sharp as the standards behind them, and staying inside the research as it develops, rather than picking it up after the fact, keeps that standard current.
Good front-end standards do not happen by accident. That is the throughline between CII's mission and ROMAN's own: improving early decision quality and reducing cost uncertainty depends on exactly this kind of discipline, applied consistently across every stage of front-end planning.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is the Construction Industry Institute (CII)?
CII is a research consortium of owners, contractors, and academic institutions that has spent more than 40 years developing tools and benchmarking practices for capital project delivery, including PDRI and Advanced Work Packaging.
What is CII Research Team RT-442?
RT-442 is a CII research initiative focused on tailoring front-end planning and the Project Definition Rating Index (PDRI) for nuclear and DOE projects, which require heightened rigor due to strict regulatory and risk demands.
Read the full announcement on LinkedIn.
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