Every capital project has four moments when it can still be saved. Most clients only discover where those moments were long after the money has gone : in a final account meeting, a mediation room, or the quiet conversation with a board that wants to know how a £40m scheme became a £52m one without anybody appearing to have made a decision. That is the honest shape of most construction failure. Not a catastrophe. An erosion. A sequence of small moments in which nobody had the