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IndustryEPC & construction

One version of project truth, from sanction to handover.

Capital projects are delivered across multiple organisations, each with its own responsibilities and records. Effective governance requires cost, interfaces, procurement, contracts, quality and completion positions to reconcile against controlled source records rather than competing spreadsheets.

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Stages in the lifecycle
The operating environment

What this industry is actually like to run.

Capital project delivery under control: cost and change, interfaces, procurement and contracts, and the completions chain through to handover.

  • The boundary is where it fails

    Engineering clashes, lost actions and contract disputes almost never start inside one company. They start where two parties each assumed the other owned something.

  • Completion is a chain, not a date

    Systemisation, inspection records, punch clearance and certification form a sequence. A date in a plan is a prediction about that sequence, not a substitute for it.

  • The operator inherits the transferred record.

    The quality and completeness of handover information affect the asset for its operating life, so readiness should be evidenced from the underlying records rather than accepted as an unsupported declaration.

Where it fails today

Every one of these is a failure a governed record prevents.

Not a list of features. Each row is something that goes wrong in this industry, and the specific control in a Zemerc application that stops it happening.

Portfolio health that quietly excludes the projects it cannot score

Projects that cannot be scored are identified and excluded explicitly, and a completion forecast is not produced where the available history does not support one.

PDMSProject Delivery Management System
Interfaces tracked in email and a shared spreadsheet nobody owns

Every interface is numbered, has accountable parties on both sides and carries a required-by date against which performance is measured.

IFMSInterface Management System
Certificates issued on a percentage rather than on completed deliverables

A controlled certificate sequence in which gate release depends on the required records being achieved; completion percentage is derived afterwards for reporting.

CCMSCompletion, Commissioning & Handover Management System
A tender that somebody could read early

Tender submissions remain sealed without an administrative read path and are opened through a formal recorded action.

PMSProcurement Management System
Inside the application

PDMS: Project Delivery Management System

Integrated delivery governance: portfolio, project workspaces and stage gates.

The PDMS executive workspace: active projects, controlled documents, critical and high risks and portfolio health across scored projects, with what needs attention ranked by the condition behind it rather than by size, the portfolio condition split across good, watch, concern, critical and could-not-be-scored, and discipline posture across schedule, progress, cost, construction, engineering, governance, procurement and readiness

Attention is ranked by the condition behind it rather than by the size of the number, and discipline posture reports how much of the estate each figure actually covers.

The lifecycle

6 stages, and who owns each of them.

The sequence this industry is genuinely run along, with the applications that govern each stage. Every one of them runs on its own; none of them needs the others to be useful.

  1. Sanction

    Portfolio, programme and project established, with the governance workspace that holds the evidence a gate is taken on.

  2. Engineer

    Deliverables, technical queries and the interfaces between every party delivering the work.

  3. Procure

    Qualification, sealed tendering, award, orders, expediting and inspection before acceptance.

  4. Contract

    Obligations, notices, variations, claims and payment certification through the operating years.

  5. Complete

    Systemisation, inspection and test records, punch clearance and the certificate sequence.

  6. Hand over

    Turnover packages, engineering information, spares and the transmittals the operator acknowledges.

On site

The record is made where the work happens.

Project-board reporting should resolve to the records created in engineering, procurement, construction, completion and commissioning. Maintaining that lineage reduces the gap between field reality and management reporting.

  • Barcode and QR scanning so records are raised where the equipment is
  • Dual-party signatures on certificates, with the approval parties recorded
  • Handover completeness computed from the registers rather than declared
Completions

A gate opens on completed deliverables, not on a number.

Each facility is reported against ready-for-commissioning, ready-for-start-up and handover criteria using completed-versus-total records, together with area status and open punch positions.

  • The certificate sequence is configured once per project and then locked
  • An executed record keeps the exact template revision it was signed against
  • Category A punch is counted against the system it belongs to
How it is organised

10 applications across 3 operating areas.

Adopt a single application and it works on its own. Adopt an operating area and the records line up across it.

What has to be demonstrable

The position you can defend when you are asked to.

Every control on this page exists because the underlying decision may need to be demonstrated later to a regulator, auditor, partner or board.

  • Deliverable-driven, never percentage-driven

    A certificate is issued against completed deliverables. A percentage is something derived afterwards for reporting; it is never what opens a gate.

  • Two owners on every boundary

    An interface carries a responsible organisation and an owner on each side, so there is no single accountable party to hide behind.

  • Decisions stay human and recorded

    Gate outcomes are recorded human judgements with their evidence and audit trail. The platform computes support for a decision; it does not take one.

PDMS

Bring one project and one system.

We will show the portfolio position it produces, the interfaces it is waiting on, and how its completion chain reads from the records rather than from the plan.