Owner’s Engineering (OE)

Onward Engineering will support the client by providing a specialized team or individual engineers, either in-house or from a third-party consultancy, to act as their technical representative during the planning, design, procurement, construction, and commissioning phases of a project. This team provides independent oversight and technical expertise to ensure that the project is designed, built, and operated in accordance with the owner’s objectives, regulatory requirements, and best practices.

Onward Engineering will support the client by providing a specialized team or individual engineers, either in-house or from a third-party consultancy, to act as their technical representative during the planning, design, procurement, construction, and commissioning phases of a project. This team provides independent oversight and technical expertise to ensure that the project is designed, built, and operated in accordance with the owner’s objectives, regulatory requirements, and best practices.

Key Roles of an Owner’s Engineer:

Project Management and Coordination

Ensures all aspects of the project are moving in alignment with the owner's goals, and coordinates between contractors, designers, and stakeholders.

Project Management and Coordination

Ensures all aspects of the project are moving in alignment with the owner's goals, and coordinates between contractors, designers, and stakeholders.

Project Management and Coordination

Ensures all aspects of the project are moving in alignment with the owner's goals, and coordinates between contractors, designers, and stakeholders.

Project Management and Coordination

Ensures all aspects of the project are moving in alignment with the owner's goals, and coordinates between contractors, designers, and stakeholders.

Technical Review and Assurance

Review engineering designs, specifications, and construction methods to confirm they meet the project’s requirements. This often includes validating the work of the engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC) contractor.

Technical Review and Assurance

Review engineering designs, specifications, and construction methods to confirm they meet the project’s requirements. This often includes validating the work of the engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC) contractor.

Technical Review and Assurance

Review engineering designs, specifications, and construction methods to confirm they meet the project’s requirements. This often includes validating the work of the engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC) contractor.

Technical Review and Assurance

Review engineering designs, specifications, and construction methods to confirm they meet the project’s requirements. This often includes validating the work of the engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC) contractor.

Risk Management

Identifies and mitigates risks throughout the project lifecycle, ensuring that safety, environmental, and operational risks are adequately addressed.

Risk Management

Identifies and mitigates risks throughout the project lifecycle, ensuring that safety, environmental, and operational risks are adequately addressed.

Risk Management

Identifies and mitigates risks throughout the project lifecycle, ensuring that safety, environmental, and operational risks are adequately addressed.

Risk Management

Identifies and mitigates risks throughout the project lifecycle, ensuring that safety, environmental, and operational risks are adequately addressed.

Contractor Oversight

Monitors the performance of the EPC contractor, ensuring compliance with contractual obligations, quality standards, timelines, and budgets.

Contractor Oversight

Monitors the performance of the EPC contractor, ensuring compliance with contractual obligations, quality standards, timelines, and budgets.

Contractor Oversight

Monitors the performance of the EPC contractor, ensuring compliance with contractual obligations, quality standards, timelines, and budgets.

Contractor Oversight

Monitors the performance of the EPC contractor, ensuring compliance with contractual obligations, quality standards, timelines, and budgets.

Procurement Assistance

Supports the owner during the procurement process, such as tender preparation, bid evaluation, and vendor selection.

Procurement Assistance

Supports the owner during the procurement process, such as tender preparation, bid evaluation, and vendor selection.

Procurement Assistance

Supports the owner during the procurement process, such as tender preparation, bid evaluation, and vendor selection.

Procurement Assistance

Supports the owner during the procurement process, such as tender preparation, bid evaluation, and vendor selection.

Cost Control

Helps in evaluating costs and ensuring that the project remains within budget, providing cost-effective solutions without compromising quality.

Cost Control

Helps in evaluating costs and ensuring that the project remains within budget, providing cost-effective solutions without compromising quality.

Cost Control

Helps in evaluating costs and ensuring that the project remains within budget, providing cost-effective solutions without compromising quality.

Cost Control

Helps in evaluating costs and ensuring that the project remains within budget, providing cost-effective solutions without compromising quality.

Compliance with Regulations

Ensures that the project complies with all relevant codes, standards, and legal requirements.

Compliance with Regulations

Ensures that the project complies with all relevant codes, standards, and legal requirements.

Compliance with Regulations

Ensures that the project complies with all relevant codes, standards, and legal requirements.

Compliance with Regulations

Ensures that the project complies with all relevant codes, standards, and legal requirements.

Testing and Commissioning

Oversees or assists in the final testing and commissioning of the project to confirm it meets performance criteria before handing over for operation.

Testing and Commissioning

Oversees or assists in the final testing and commissioning of the project to confirm it meets performance criteria before handing over for operation.

Testing and Commissioning

Oversees or assists in the final testing and commissioning of the project to confirm it meets performance criteria before handing over for operation.

Testing and Commissioning

Oversees or assists in the final testing and commissioning of the project to confirm it meets performance criteria before handing over for operation.

Three engineerings looking over a project map
Three engineerings looking over a project map
Three engineerings looking over a project map
Three engineerings looking over a project map

Why Owners Engineering is Important:

Independence

Unlike contractors, the owner’s engineer works directly for the project owner, ensuring that decisions are made in the owner’s best interest.

Independence

Unlike contractors, the owner’s engineer works directly for the project owner, ensuring that decisions are made in the owner’s best interest.

Independence

Unlike contractors, the owner’s engineer works directly for the project owner, ensuring that decisions are made in the owner’s best interest.

Independence

Unlike contractors, the owner’s engineer works directly for the project owner, ensuring that decisions are made in the owner’s best interest.

Expertise

The owner may not always have the internal expertise required for large, complex projects, so owner’s engineering fills that gap.

Expertise

The owner may not always have the internal expertise required for large, complex projects, so owner’s engineering fills that gap.

Expertise

The owner may not always have the internal expertise required for large, complex projects, so owner’s engineering fills that gap.

Expertise

The owner may not always have the internal expertise required for large, complex projects, so owner’s engineering fills that gap.

Quality and Risk Control

Owner’s engineers help maintain project quality, ensure best practices are followed, and mitigate potential risks early in the project lifecycle.

Quality and Risk Control

Owner’s engineers help maintain project quality, ensure best practices are followed, and mitigate potential risks early in the project lifecycle.

Quality and Risk Control

Owner’s engineers help maintain project quality, ensure best practices are followed, and mitigate potential risks early in the project lifecycle.

Quality and Risk Control

Owner’s engineers help maintain project quality, ensure best practices are followed, and mitigate potential risks early in the project lifecycle.

Cost and Time Management

They help keep the project on time and within budget, balancing competing priorities between cost, quality, and schedule.

Cost and Time Management

They help keep the project on time and within budget, balancing competing priorities between cost, quality, and schedule.

Cost and Time Management

They help keep the project on time and within budget, balancing competing priorities between cost, quality, and schedule.

Cost and Time Management

They help keep the project on time and within budget, balancing competing priorities between cost, quality, and schedule.

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