How to Create Value with Integrated Pre-Construction MEP Solutions

• Do you want easier and lower cost pre-construction solutions for your MEP contracts?
• Are you an MEP contractor tired of struggling to step up profit margin of your MEP project?
• Are you struggling to get a decent set of coordinated working drawings for your site on time?
• Are you using separate companies for MEP engineering and working drawings?
  
  If you are experiencing any of the above issues, then you should give the following a thought:

The current methods of delivering pre-construction MEP contracts are flawed:

They waste pre-construction money by 35% – 45% and end up wasting up to 4 months in program. As per the traditional method of procurement, MEP engineering house verifies the engineering, develops the remaining design work to be carried out and follows it up by issuing a set of drawings that reflect the final design. This engineering and drawing package is then given to the MEP working drawing company (cad-house) for coordination of the design and issuing of a working drawing package thereby, increasing the time and efforts of the contractor’s team.

What is the solution?  

A simple and efficient way to streamline the above procedure is to have a single company delivering both the services. This will result in a substantial cost saving to the contractor, reduction in the program and will make the job a whole lot easier for the entire pre-construction team.

What are the benefits?

Some of the benefits which will accrue by having a single company will be as follows:

• Reduced management input required by the MEP contractor
• No scope gaps – less project risk
• Fewer headaches for the MEP sub-contractor trying to coordinate queries between the two parties
• Substantially lower cost solution - £20million MEP residential scheme yielded a £350k cost saving
• Program savings - since you can commence the modelling much earlier. Experience has shown 4 months saving on a £20million scheme.
• Quicker and easier to design for dFMA when the full scope is by one entity.
• Quicker and easier production of work requirements of builders.

If you keep doing the same thing over and over, you will get the same results. 

The industry needs to think a little differently and be open to delivering projects better, more efficiently and at a lower cost. Utilising a single company for both roles gives the contractor a huge amount of benefits in commercial space as well as project delivery.