Project Controls Strategic Partner
We don’t sit outside your project. We sit inside it.
Cost blowouts and schedule slippage rarely come from bad luck. They come from decisions made on incomplete cost, schedule or risk information. That’s the gap we close.
About us
A family-led consultancy with 45+ years of global project delivery.
Vidotto Group was founded in Brisbane by Lou Vidotto, a senior project controls manager and estimator with more than 45 years of experience delivering mining, infrastructure and energy projects across Australia and internationally.
Today we partner with owners and delivery teams as an embedded project controls function, bringing continuity, independence and clarity to every phase of delivery.
Why Vidotto Group
Your embedded project controls partner.
A partner, not a vendor
We work alongside owners and delivery teams as an extension of leadership, sharing accountability for outcomes and ensuring cost, schedule and risk decisions are made with independence and authority.
Full-spectrum controls discipline
Cost engineering, planning and scheduling, risk and change, progress measurement, forecast-at-completion and reporting, delivered as one integrated function.
Decision-grade project intelligence
Built on 45+ years delivering clarity across cost, schedule and risk, so decisions stand up to investor and regulator scrutiny.
Family-led continuity
A multi-generational leadership team that brings long-term stability and accountability, not transactional consulting.
Integrated delivery support
Estimating, PMO and governance, project management services and workforce development, all built in service of the controls function.
Outcome-focused
We measure success by alignment to client mandates. No surprises, no drift, just disciplined delivery.
How we partner
Every engagement runs on four disciplines.
Whether embedded within your team or engaged as an independent controls function, every Vidotto Group engagement is structured the same way.
- 01
Embed
Our people sit inside your project team, not on the other side of a status report.
- 02
Govern
We establish or strengthen the controls framework: baselines, change protocols and escalation triggers, so every decision has a clear evidence trail.
- 03
Report
One source of truth for cost, schedule and risk, through dashboards and forecasts your leadership, board and financiers can rely on.
- 04
Transfer
We build capability into your team as we go, so the discipline endures after we step back.
Core capabilities
Project controls at the centre. Everything else in its service.
- Project Controls Management
- Planning and Scheduling
- Cost Engineering
- Risk and Change Management
- Progress Measurement
- Forecast at Completion
- Reporting and Dashboards
Capabilities that complete the partnership
“A successful project is one where there are no surprises.”
The business case
What an embedded controls partner changes.
We’ve built this discipline on projects where being wrong wasn’t an option: mega-mine expansions, greenfield builds in PNG’s highlands, critical national infrastructure.
Without an embedded controls partner
- Cost and schedule risk surfaces late, once it is already a variation, a claim or a headline.
- Decisions get made on estimates instead of evidence, because no one owns a single, current source of truth.
- Governance is reactive: health checks and audits happen after confidence has already been lost.
- Capability walks out the door when the consultant leaves, and the next project starts from zero.
With Vidotto Group
- Independent, decision-grade cost, schedule and risk intelligence from day one, not reconstructed after the fact.
- One source of truth for cost, schedule and risk, reported through dashboards and forecasts you can rely on.
- Governance and controls frameworks built in from the start, so escalation happens before overrun, not after.
- Capability that transfers into your team as we go, so the discipline endures after we step back.
Project highlights
From Olympic Dam to the Kennecott Smelter.
Insights