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Energy from waste

Quantity surveying and claims support for energy-from-waste facility construction and associated packages.

Commercial challenges and how we approach them

Energy-from-waste projects combine reception and handling facilities with process plant, buildings and generation connections. Civil, mechanical and electrical packages need to meet across substantial equipment interfaces. The account needs a clear boundary between construction, plant supply and operating requirements.

Waste bunker and process-equipment interfaces

The Challenge

Waste reception, bunker structures, cranes, combustion equipment and boiler systems have closely connected dimensions and loads. Late equipment information can alter civil works that were committed much earlier.

Our approach

We compare the supplier's information dates and requirements with the civil package's assumptions. A revised load or opening can affect work already designed, ordered or cast. The valuation records those commitments as well as the new quantities, and checks whether superseded work can still be cancelled. This avoids treating a process-equipment revision as either a civil contractor's unexplained extra or a simple change to the equipment price.

Flue-gas treatment and residue-handling scope

The Challenge

Who provides the duct, its supports and the connection? At the boundary of flue-gas treatment, reagent and residue-handling packages, exclusions can leave that unanswered.

Our approach

We reconcile the suppliers' boundaries against the installation orders, identifying missing connections and duplicated allowances before they become extras.

Commissioning with suitable waste and utilities

The Challenge

Hot commissioning needs suitable waste, utilities and operating staff as well as completed plant. Interrupted feed or unavailable power can keep specialists on site without allowing the planned tests to finish.

Our approach

We review the agreed commissioning inputs, responsibilities and test conditions. Actual readiness and test records are linked to resource costs so additional attendance can be distinguished from completing the original scope.

Performance tests before acceptance

The Challenge

Throughput, energy output and emissions-related acceptance requirements may rely on specified operating conditions. Repeat tests can delay milestones and prompt disagreement over defects, changed inputs or incomplete supporting systems.

Our approach

We read the acceptance and payment requirements alongside the technical team's test findings. A failed test, an unavailable test input and a changed performance requirement are different events. The review identifies which occurred, what repeat testing was already included and the basis for any additional attendance or deduction. It does not assume that physical completion alone releases the acceptance payment.

Refurbishment within a limited plant shutdown

The Challenge

On an existing facility, boiler or treatment-system upgrades may depend on a tightly planned outage. Unexpected condition or late equipment can extend the shutdown and generate acceleration or remobilisation claims.

Our approach

We compare the agreed outage scope with discoveries and instructions, assessing additional upgrade work separately from the cost of recovering or extending the shutdown.