Webinar: Decoding Front End Loading (FEL) for Capital Projects Planning & Execution

ADF Engineering’s Rakesh Patel, P.E. & Matt Hunkler, P.E. will be presenting our next live webinar: Decoding Front End Loading (FEL) for Capital Projects Planning & Execution. 

In this webinar Rakesh and Matt will discuss best practices and cover the following key topics: 

• Project FEL Phasing:
  A look at the benefits of breaking projects into feasibility, conceptual, definition, and detailed design steps including the key objectives, main deliverables, and inputs for each Stage Gate.
   
• Risk Management:
  Recognize the warning signs and challenges for each FEL phase and how to avoid common pitfalls.
   
• Stake Holder Management:
  The critical role played by the plant’s capital team, operations team, vendors, and contractors during each FEL phase and how to facilitate effective coordination and communication between all Stakeholders.
   
• Cost Estimation:
  Reviewing best practices for project funding estimates, methodologies for creating capital cost estimates (CCE), improving the accuracy of estimates for each FEL phase, and how to prevent cost overages.  

ADF Engineering has developed a standard approach for utilizing FEL process from our years of executing capital projects of all different sizes for our clients in various industries. 

This webinar is for: 

• Project Managers 
• Procurement Managers 
• Operations Managers 
• Plant Managers 
• Plant Engineer 

Upon completing this webinar, you’ll have a better understanding of how Front-End Loading (FEL) Planning methodology can help with project success through better cost & schedule management, reduced risks, better stakeholder alignment and maximizing return on Capex investments.

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Part 1: Decoding Front End Loading (FEL) for Capital Projects Planning & Execution

Part 2: Equipment Factored Cost Estimating

In this follow-up to the webinar on Front End Loading for Capital Projects, Rakesh Patel explains Factored Cost Estimating in more detail.