Support in preparation of the technical documents, procedures, work schedules and quality issues for tendering and negotiation of the Contracts
Essential Engineering SRL provides its clients, through skilled staff, the following services in order to set-up a solid and realistic Work Programme:
1.Define and implement an adequate Work Breakdown Structure for an easy definition and monitoring the activities, by use of the Work Description, Location, Bill of Quantities, type of the Works and Responsibilities;
2.Assigning estimated durations for each activity by use of the previous experience, historical records, similar projects or industry guides. “Linking” individual and grouped activities so to comply with the sequences as defined in the technical and good practice procedures, in the specifications and in the Safety standards and norms;
3.Assigning resources and costs on the basis of price-analysis and similar previous experiences;
4.Schedule verification and identification of the Longest Critical Path;
5.Calculation of the resources and budgeted costs time-distribution; leveling the over-allocations and re-scheduling the works.
To prepare the Work Programmes, Essential Engineering SRL uses last generation specialized software – Primavera P6 on Oracle databases, Microsoft Project, Tilos, Excel. This allows the best results in the shortest time with the lowest costs.
“(…) Scheduling is one of the basic requirements of project management planning and strategic analysis. Its main objective is to establish the time required for a project.
This supports the project in arranging funds on required dates, the mobilization of resources in a most cost efficient and cost saving manner, in establishing coordination within the project and with other projects, in the early detection of problems so that required actions can be implemented as necessary to achieve project strategic goals as planned. Also from a contractual point of view, the schedule is an important document used to record all delays and to analyze extensions of time and financial loss claims. (…)” (PMI, The Practice Standard for Scheduling, §1.1)