Developing project controls and commercial consultants at EPC-EM Ltd
by Emily Cooke, Managing Director (Originally published in Engineering Magazine, September 2025)
From training myself to training my staff, Shane is the best there is. He has helped me ten-fold in my career and again now, with the help of his amazing business at GO FORTH.
At EPC-EM Ltd we are a project control and commercial consultancy focused on new energy projects such as nuclear, renewables, wind and BESS (Battery Energy Storage Systems). As a trusted partner to our clients, we provide planning, cost, risk, change, delay analysis, project management, and PMO setup services.
I first met Shane Forth in 2007, when I was leaving school and looking for a career. Shane was Head of Project Controls for AMEC and interviewed and recruited me onto the UK’s first (ECITB) project-control apprenticeship programme.
Since then, my career journey and passion for engineering and construction have driven my commitment to train and mentor the next generation of project-controls professionals. A good example is Ethan Nary, my Project Controls Manager and Director — who was previously a member of the 2020-21 project-controls apprenticeship cohort that Shane taught at Middlesbrough College.
Shane is providing Introduction to Project Controls and Managing Risk as Part of a Project Team training to my early-career staff and has also helped us become an ECITB member company.
