Design and technology review
Contractor and vendor design checked against the process basis, the permit conditions and the operating reality — before drawings are frozen and changes get expensive.
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Your engineer on your side of the table.
An owner's engineer represents the plant owner — not the contractor, not the technology vendor. We review the design you are being sold, test the cost and schedule you are being quoted, supervise the work you are paying for, and verify the performance you were promised. Independent of every supplier on the project, by construction.
- Acting for
- Owners · investors · lenders · growth companies
- Scope
- Design review · contracts · site · start-up
- Independence
- No vendor commissions, no equipment resale
- Engagement
- Embedded part-time or full site presence
What you get
Contract and tender support
Scope splits, technical annexes, performance guarantees, liquidated-damages and acceptance criteria written so the guarantee you sign is the guarantee you can test at start-up.
Cost and schedule control
Independent estimate against the contractor's price, change-order review, progress measurement and forecast — so a slip appears in a report before it appears on site.
Site supervision and QA/QC
Inspection plans, witness points, factory and site acceptance testing, punch-list management and HSE oversight during construction and installation.
Start-up and performance verification
Commissioning oversight, performance-test protocol and measured verification against the contracted numbers — with a defensible record if a claim has to be made.
How it runs
- 01
Establish the owner's basis
What the plant must produce, at what quality and cost, under which permit and safety constraints. This becomes the yardstick every contractor document is measured against.
- 02
Review before you commit
Technology, layout, equipment selection and cost base reviewed while the contract is still open — the only point where findings are free to act on.
- 03
Harden the contract
Technical scope, interfaces, guarantees and acceptance tests drafted or reviewed so responsibility is unambiguous at every battery limit.
- 04
Supervise execution
Design-development review, inspections, progress and change control through detail engineering, procurement, construction and installation.
- 05
Verify and close out
Commissioning witnessed, performance test run against the contracted basis, deviations documented, warranty and punch items tracked to closure.
- 40+ industrial projects delivered and 20+ plant start-ups supervised by the team, so contractor claims are checked against work we have done ourselves.
- We take no equipment margin and no vendor commission — the only party we are paid by is the owner.
- The same engineers who run our EPCM delivery act as owner's engineer, which is why design review comments are executable rather than academic.
- Anchor case: a €24M, 10,000 t/a cellulose plant carried from process basis through construction to start-up.
From our own project record
Client, site and product identifiers removed — most of our work is under NDA.
Contractors are not the enemy — but they are optimising their scope, not your plant. An owner's engineer exists so that someone with the same engineering depth is optimising yours.