Scope
What we are actually responsible for.
Construction management is a job that is easy to describe vaguely and hard to describe honestly. Here is the honest version.
Method
Six stages
Each stage gates the next. A programme that skips the constructability review to save three weeks pays for them back with interest at commissioning.
Pre-construction
Before anyone mobilises: constructability review of the issued-for-construction drawings, a permit-conditions register so no condition is discovered at energisation, contractor prequalification, and a baseline programme we are willing to be measured against.
Deliverables — comment register, permit-conditions register, baseline programme, inspection and test plan
Procurement oversight
Technical bid evaluation on modules, inverters, transformers and cable. Factory acceptance witnessed where it is worth the airfare. Certificates checked against the specification on arrival, not filed unread. Delivery into Georgia planned around Poti and Batumi lead times rather than assumed.
Deliverables — technical bid evaluation, FAT reports, incoming inspection records
Site supervision
Daily presence. Setting out verified before piling starts, because a survey error found at module installation is a very expensive survey error. Hold points held. Non-conformances raised in writing, tracked, and closed.
Deliverables — daily site report, NCR and RFI registers, weekly progress and photographic record
Health and safety
Georgian labour-safety law is the floor, not the target. Method statements and risk assessments reviewed before the activity, permits to work for lifting, excavation and live electrical, and the authority to stop work — which is only meaningful if it is used.
Deliverables — HSE audit reports, incident and near-miss register, permit log
Grid works and energisation
The step most likely to hold up a commercial operation date, and the one least under the contractor's control. Outage windows and protection settings are coordinated with GSE well ahead of the works, and the energisation sequence is agreed in writing before anyone stands next to a live 110 kV bay.
Deliverables — energisation plan, protection settings sign-off, GSE correspondence log
Commissioning and handover
Performance ratio measured against the yield study, not against the contractor's own expectation. Reliability run completed. Punch list issued and driven to zero. As-builts, O&M manuals, spares and the warranty register handed over in a form the operator can actually use on day one.
Deliverables — commissioning dossier, performance test report, punch list to zero, as-built and warranty pack
Split of responsibility
Who does what
Three parties, twelve activities. The column that matters is the middle one — everything in it is work the owner would otherwise have to do itself, or take the contractor’s word for.
| Activity | Owner / SPV | ENGIA Green — EPCm | EPC contractor |
|---|---|---|---|
| Contractor prequalification and tender | Awards the contract | Prequalifies, evaluates bids, recommends | Bids |
| Detailed design and shop drawings | Approves | Reviews, comments, closes out the comment register | Prepares |
| Construction programme | Accepts the baseline | Reviews, monitors, reports slippage early | Prepares and updates |
| Setting out and survey control | — | Verifies against the approved layout before piling | Executes |
| Equipment and materials | Pays | Witnesses factory acceptance, checks certificates on delivery | Procures |
| Workmanship on site | — | Holds the ITP hold points, raises and closes NCRs | Performs and self-inspects |
| Health, safety and environment | Sets the standard | Audits, escalates, stops work when required | Owns the site and the method statements |
| Payment applications | Pays | Certifies quantities and milestone completion | Applies |
| Variations and claims | Decides | Assesses entitlement and quantum, recommends | Notifies |
| Grid connection with GSE | Signs the connection agreement | Coordinates outages, schedules, witnesses | Executes the works |
| Commissioning and performance test | Accepts the plant | Witnesses, verifies the performance ratio against the yield study | Runs the tests |
| Handover, as-builts and defects | Takes over | Issues the punch list and drives it to zero | Rectifies |
This is the standard split. The contract for each project governs, and on any given plant the boundary moves — particularly around design approval and variation authority. Ask for the project-specific matrix rather than relying on this one.
Commercial terms
How we are paid
Fees are quoted per installed kilowatt and depend on the scope, the scale of the plant and whether the mandate covers development-stage work as well as construction. Where ENGIA Green carries development risk alongside the owner, part of the fee can be structured against the outcome rather than the hours.
We would rather put a number in a proposal against a defined scope than publish a range that means nothing without one.