We handle complex power plant projects by working together with clients to develop economic solutions and by upholding the highest standards of quality, occupational health and safety, and adherence to deadlines. The Al-Rand portfolio includes design, foundations, earthworks, concrete construction, steel engineering, pipeline construction, facades and outdoor facilities, as well as professional services. Our clients reap the benefits of our longstanding experience in project management and project control, as well as from our flexible expert employees who are authorized to take decisions. We take a networked approach and maintain close involvement with everyone related to the project. This is what makes a project a success.
Civil works plays a necessary and important role in the realiztion of a power plant. Equipment and personnel have to be housed, protected and supported, and infrastructure has to be provided in order for the plant to function. In a typical power plantproect, civil works can account for between 5-20 per cent of the overall cost of the plant, which is clearly a significant share of the buget.
Structural design (i.e. foundations and superstructure) together with external and internal finishing are the essential parts into which the plant processes are organized. In addition to those elements, roads, drains, cables, ducts, trenches and other ground works need to be provided in order to link the buildings together.
People have to use, operate and maintain the power plant throughout its operational lifetime. All requirements pertaining to their daily tasks, whether in administration or operation, must be designed so that they can be carried out safely and securely. Negotiations with local authorities for planning permission and statutory requirements also fall within the scope of civil works.
It is important to remember that industrial design projects need to be treated with the same care and attention that is given to other types of building projects. They are part of the landscape, and therefore their physical presence can often have a significant impact on the local and wider surroundings.
People have to use, operate and maintain the power plant throughout its operational lifetime. All requirements pertaining to their daily tasks, whether in administration or operation, must be designed so that they can be carried out safely and securely. Negotiations with local authorities for planning permission and statutory requirements also fall within the scope of civil works.
It is important to remember that industrial design projects need to be treated with the same care and attention that is given to other types of building projects. They are part of the landscape, and therefore their physical presence can often have a significant impact on the local and wider surroundings.
New power plants need to be modern, smart and clean looking to reflect the advanced technology and efficiency of modern power plant systems. This means that the overall design should visually demonstrate this through the choice of materials, colors, etc., and attention to detail should reflect the reduced environmental impact that power plants need to have in today’s world.
Current practice brings together large consortia to bid for EPC projects, and often links several different sub-contractors, each with different skills and responsibilities for different parts of the construction process. Each organization in this network will have an interface with at least one other organization. Furthermore, each interface must successfully transform technical information, such as designs, specifications, standards, project plans and location, as well as commercial information, into contracts between the parties involved. Clearly there is plenty of scope for errors and mistakes to occur.
In the power generation field, it is well known that problems in the civil works sector of most EPC contracts result in significant cost overruns, time schedule delays and waste.
Buildings and building sites, unlike mechanical and engineering products that can be digitally modelled, prototyped and refined prior to production, are effectively unique one-offs and prototyped as they are constructed. Also, if one considers the ordered flow in engineering processes and compare that with a typical chaotic construction site, one can see once again that the opportunity for on-site errors is great, even when the documentation is 100 per cent correct. As an example, once steel is fixed or concrete poured it cannot easily be taken out and re-built elsewhere without causing delays and incurring extra costs.
