Services offered are as follows;

• Engineering design and detailing
• Budget Preparation
• Quality Assurance Services
• Technical Audits
• Technical Specification Preparation and/or Custodianship
• Cost Control Services
• Project planning or scheduling services

These are further detailed as follows;

1.1 Engineering design and detailing
These services include, but and not limited to:
• Feasibility studies.
• Establishment of technical design criteria.
• Detailed engineering.
• Preparation of comprehensive detail design drawings.
• Procurement assistance.
• Contract Management.
• Site supervision.
• On Site commissioning services.

1.2 Budget Preparation
Conceptual design and preparation of financial estimates, to the required level of accuracy, for Engineering Projects in the Mining and Heavy Industrial Domains. This service could include any combination of the following, at the client’s discretion:

• Technical design criteria.
• Conceptual drawings depicting the overall concept and forming the basis of scope.
• Fully detailed pricing schedules.
• Quotations for major items of equipment.
• Support documentation for all other items.
• List of assumptions.
• List of constraints.
• Risk register and analysis.
• Energy cost estimate.
• Estimate confidence level.
• Preliminary implementation schedule.

1.3 Quality Assurance Services
Such services include implementation of client quality assurance practices for specific quality related services such as:

• Factory acceptance testing (FAT) of engineering equipment.
• On-site testing of equipment.
• Vetting of vendor quality assurance programmes.
• Releasing of hold points in terms of appropriate criteria.
• Preparation of quality management plans.
• Quality troubleshooting.
• Quality trend analysis.
• Quality audits.
• Development of quality checklists.

1.4 Technical Audits
Undertaking of technical audits in the all engineering disciplines. Such services would include any or all of the following:

• Setting up of audit criteria.
• Carrying out of the audit on a particular plant or construction site.
• Liaising with other disciplines with a view to presenting an integrated audit report.
• Advising end-users with regard to remedial actions.
• Assistance with preparation of final audit reporting.

1.5 Technical Specification Preparation

Preparation of technical specifications for equipment. Services could include all or any of the following:

• Development of principal technical design criteria.
• Conversion of such criteria into individual specifications
• Custodianship, management and backup of such specifications.
• Securing client approval and developing a database for such specifications.
• Liaison with related industries with a view to rationalising specifications in as far as this is possible and practical.
• Regular updating of such specifications.
• Aligning specifications with national and international norms.
• Liaison with vendors and other stakeholders to ensure specifications are not unreasonable in terms of industry norms.
• To ensure that such specifications align with national safety requirements.
• Ensure that such specifications align with national environmental requirements.

1.6 Cost Control Services

Provision of cost control services in as far as the monitoring and control of project expenditure is concerned, based on approved control budget estimates. This service could include:

• Day-to-day control of amounts committed.
• Assistance with preparation of scope change or variation requests in respect of either time, cost or quality.
• Variance reporting.
• Value analysis.
• Graphical depictions of project expenditure.
• Cost forecasting of projected end value.

1.7 Project Planning or Scheduling

Preparation and/or assistance with drawing up project schedules, using the appropriate project management software, across all disciplines.

Such services could include any combination of the following:

• Preparation of draft project schedules for approval.
• Refining schedule activities.
• Sequencing project activities.
• Activity duration estimation.
• Schedule development.
• Schedule control.
• Assistance with duration compression (“crashing” and “fast-tracking”) if and when necessary.
• Resource levelling heuristics.
• Change management.
• Variance reporting.

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