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Front End Planning on Renovation and Revamp Projects:
Managing a project can be challenging during the best of times. This challenge is increased when modifying or renovating an existing facility. Renovation and revamp projects focus on an existing facility, and can include the act, process, or work of replacing, restoring, repairing, or improving a facility.
What are Renovation and Revamp Projects?
You may know them by many different aliases including:
- Retrofits
- Reconstruction
- Maintenance projects
- Improvement projects
- De-bottlenecking projects
- Upgrades
- ReBuilds
- Redevelopment
- Modifications
- Refurbishments
- Betterment
- Rehabilitation
- Overhaul
- Restoration
- and more…
Whatever you call them, there a number of unique challenges and risks associated with R&R projects
So what are the risks of these projects? What can be done to increase the likelihood of success in Renovation and Revamp projects?
Here’s a quick Infographic outlining:
- what they are,
- what the key risks are
- and what the critical success factors to having a successful project are.
Front End Planning for Renovation & Revamp Industrial Projects
Renovation & Revamp (R&R) projects are ones that are focused on an existing facility.
R&R projects include replacing, restoring, repairing, and improving an existing facility with capital or non-capital funds.
R&R projects are done for many business reasons, including: improving profitability, increasing efficiency and output rates, complying with new regulations, or enhancing reliability, safety, or environmental performance.
30% of all Projects's $'s spent on R&R Projects
Risk
Renovation & revamp projects contain unique or increased risks compared to greenfield projects. Some key risks to consider in R&R projects:
- safety
- security
- existing conditions
- coordintation
- compatibility
- contract and procurement
- strategies
- environmental issues
- historical/archeological concerns
- dismantling/demolition requirements
Critical Success Factors
Successful projects are more likely to be achieved when the following few critical success factors are taken into consideration:
- Front end planning (FEP) is one of the most important factors, but is often overlooked during R&R projects.
- FEP allows project teams to develop sufficient strategies to address risk and decide to commit resources to maximize the chances of project success. FEP provides regular "gate checks" to ensure smooth transition to the next phase.
- Alignment is the condition where project participants work together to develop and meet a mutually defined and understood set of objectives.
- Team building can greatly improve alignment by fostering effective communication between team members and stakeholders. PDRI has been recognized as a great tool to improve project alignment.
- A contract strategy should focus on creating a mutually beneficial agreement that helps to motivate the contractor(s) to perform high quality work.
- Risks to R&R are increased if the chosen contract strategy is not a good match to the project's drivers and goals.
- Renovation and Revamp projects often require more creative and alternative approaches in order to be successful.
- Involving operations and maintenance personnel early in FEP provides hands on experience at the facility and allows project team members to better anticipate problems and to react quickly to them.
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