Rising attrition reaches the C-suite

Even as the industry remains confident of growth, an increasing share of projects never sees the light of day.

A first benchmark for project success

62%
of projects are successful
13%
of respondents succeed on a quarter or fewer of their projects

The C-suite catches up

The visibility gap between leadership and engineering has closed. Share of respondents reporting more than 50% project failure →

Senior Executives
50%
Engineers
41%
Other
41%
Executives
50%

say half or more projects never saw the light of day.

compared to 41% of engineers

Attrition has a real development cost

Projects can consume land options, interconnection deposits, environmental studies, and engineering hours before being abandoned. Half of senior executives identify project attrition as one of their highest controllable costs.

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