Hong Kong
The decisions that set the cost of an industrial project are made before anyone breaks ground
Oberfor advises owners and contractors on how a capital project is put together — how it is packaged, contracted, governed and supplied. We work one level above the site: not running the construction, but building the system the construction runs on.
How the project is set up
Delivery model, contracting strategy, package boundaries, interface management and assurance at the gates — with a separate, deep line in fire, process and environmental safety.
AdvisoryComplex and single-build equipment
Specification, supplier qualification, acceptance criteria — and the supply itself, sourced from wherever the equipment is actually made.
ProcurementProjects defined before sanction end differently
Deviation from budget and from schedule, % · projects with a closed scope at sanction against an open one
Source: Construction Industry Institute, Assessment of Effective Front End Planning Processes, Research Summary 268-1a, 2013. Groups split by the Project Definition Rating Index at sanction. Front-end planning cost as a share of total installed cost — 4.3% for industrial projects: National Research Council, Front-End Planning, drawing on the CII benchmarking database of more than 1,000 projects.
What we do
Project & Contracting Advisory
The delivery model, the package breakdown, the interfaces between them, and the gates the project has to pass.
Read moreSafety, Industrial Risk & Environment
Independent review of fire, process and environmental design, and the regulatory strategy on a facility where several codes apply at once.
Read moreProcurement & Technical Supply
Sourcing strategy, supplier qualification, technical requirements, acceptance — and delivery of the equipment itself.
Read moreWhere projects are actually lost
A scope defined to seventy per cent at contract award is not a project with a thirty per cent gap. It is a project with open-ended cost exposure.
A schedule built on assumed lead times is fiction. And reporting drifts not because anyone lies, but because every level of the project makes one small, defensible adjustment.
Our method addresses those three failures directly, in that order. See the approach.
How we work
A permanent core extended by a network of vetted specialists mobilised for the specific project. You are told who does what before the work starts.
Advisory is paid on a fixed or time basis and does not depend on the volume of equipment purchased. Where we act as principal on supply, that is stated in writing.
The contracting entity, the governing law and the liability sit in Hong Kong.
Every engagement is defined by the document it produces and the decision that document supports.
A short conversation is usually enough to tell whether we are useful
Send the project stage, the scope as it currently stands, and the decision you are facing.