Tagged with: Project Planning

About the stages of complex engineering projects, we have shared a 9 part blog series which is quite popular on our website. Therefore, we…

Handover (and start-up) in a nutshell After pre-commissioning and commissioning are completed, the built facility can be started up (start-up or SU phase). This…

(Pre-)Commissioning in a nutshell  The pre-commissioning (or pre-comm) stage of engineering projects is a critical phase that occurs after construction & installation and before…

Construction & Installation in a nutshell The Construction & Installation stage follows after Procurement & Fabrication. Construction and installation involve putting all the various…

Procurement & Fabrication in a nutshell After successful completion of the Detailed Design stage, procurement and fabrication come next. This happens based on the…

Detailed Design in a nutshell The Detailed Design stage follows after the FEED stage (Front-End Engineering Design). The basic design (with typically 12 to…

FEED in a nutshell The FEED or FEE stage (Front-End Engineering Design) – sometimes Basic Engineering, ‘Define’ or ‘FEL-3’ phase – usually follows after…

Pre-FEED in a nutshell The pre-FEED stage (pre-FEED is short for preliminary Front-End Engineering Design) – sometimes referred to as ‘Design Basis’ or ‘FEL-2’…

Conceptual Design in a nutshell The Conceptual Design stage – sometimes ‘Concept Selection’, ‘Conceptual Engineering’ or ‘FEL-1’ (if FEL project planning is used) –…

The feasibility study in a nutshell The feasibility study is the first phase of an engineering project. Its main objective is to determine whether…