Major projects / EPC

Background & Challenges

2 out of every 3 major projects run off track in terms of costs and deadlines, with the proportion reaching 80% in the infrastructure sector. Whether in energy, industry, construction or infrastructure, XL projects are characterized by exceptional complexity:

 

  • Technical, with the development and integration of advanced technologies, often new and at the cutting edge of innovation, tailor-made for projects that are by nature unique.
  • Organizational, due to the coordination of a large number of dispersed public and private players, with a high degree of coactivity between professions, the involvement of subcontractors, and operational interdependencies in heterogeneous cultural and geopolitical contexts.
  • Financial, with stakes of several hundred million or even billions of euros, requiring fine-tuned management of cash flows, costs, terminal projections and variance monitoring.
  • Regulatory, with multi-jurisdictional standards and authorizations (environment, safety...), lengthy procedures and stringent compliance/traceability requirements
     
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They also have to contend with other exogenous constraints, such as the energy transition, persistent inflation and volatile commodity prices.

Mastering this complexity is therefore essential to securing performance in terms of deadlines and costs, and this relies on the ability to meet 3 challenges:

  1. Choice of bid strategy and technical proposal, to win the contract without compromising project execution
     
  2. Mastery of a development and implementation plan that is unique to each project
     
  3. Construction itself, which has to deal with sometimes imperfect technical decisions and complex coordination processes

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