Experts’ Corner papers

In our new Expert Corner paper 2020-02 \’How Carbon Management is Becoming a Strategic Requirement on New Large Complex Projects\’, Sylvain Richer de Forges exposes how important carbon footprint becomes for large complex projects. Managing carbon on a LCP has shifted significantly from a low priority to the point of becoming the very nature of […]

In our new Expert Corner paper 2020-01 \’How stakeholder management and ESG ratings becomes an essential focus for new Large Complex Projects\’, Sylvain Richer de Forges exposes how important those aspects are for large complex projects. This article captures the fact that due to their sheer size, Large Complex Projects offer an unmatched opportunity for

Project Control on major projects has changed over time and its meaning has also significantly altered. There are several software packages available for project planning, scheduling, cost, estimating, and budgeting. It is up to the Client to authorize the use of a particular software, available reporting format, price, and ease of operation. Present day Project

The EPC Project business is a challenging market. Relative to other Project industries, the business margin and delivery pressures are high, and inflow of new generation employees is limited. The success measure of an EPC Project goes beyond delivering a onetime profit and expands into areas like human resource retention & growth, continual organization improvement,

In our new Expert Corner paper \’How to Engineer Efficiently for Onshore Facilities: Standardized Modularization\’, Catalin Eftimie explains how to benefit to the maximum of the modularization approach and strategies when executing large projects onshore. The modularization concept for onshore facilities has become in the past few years a design choice (when applicable) for many

Why is the industry project performance not improving? EPC Project companies implement process continuous improvement and business excellence practices. However, in spite of significant resource investment, those improvements rarely transfer into actual business improvement. Actually in most cases, business effectiveness tends to decrease over time. How is it possible to overcome this paradox? Our new

Many project organizations underestimate the importance of rigorous Tendering/ Proposals process. In particular, measuring the number of awards obtained is irrelevant if those projects awarded cannot be executed without major changes, delays and overruns. Our new Expert Paper 2015-02 \’Eight Principles for Sustainable Proposals Management\’ by Kamlesh Narwani concentrates on the best practices that need to

Many project organizations underestimate the importance of proper Contract Management when executing projects, and in particular, EPC (integrated Engineering-Procurement-Construction) projects. Kamlesh Narwani in our latest Expert Corner\’s paper briefly discusses about the application of Contract Management in different phases of EPC project management, why this role is indispensable, and the role profile of a Contract Manager.

Contractors lose on average 5 to 7% of the Contract value due to undetected additional requirements requested by their Client. Changes cannot be fully avoided during project execution, but they should be minimized to avoid disturbing the execution. One major practical concern is the amount of changes that can be created by the Client, and