Owner’s Engineering: Managing & Mitigating Risks | Solar + Storage Engineering Services

As 𝗢𝘄𝗻𝗲𝗿’𝘀 𝗘𝗻𝗴𝗶𝗻𝗲𝗲𝗿𝘀, we act as your 𝘁𝗲𝗰𝗵𝗻𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗿𝗶𝘀𝗸 𝗺𝗮𝗻𝗮𝗴𝗲𝗿𝘀. From 𝗱𝗲𝘀𝗶𝗴𝗻 𝗿𝗲𝘃𝗶𝗲𝘄𝘀 𝘁𝗼 𝗹𝗼𝗻𝗴-𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗺 𝗶𝗻𝘀𝗽𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀, our job is to 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝘁𝗲𝗰𝘁 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗶𝗻𝘃𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁—not just during construction but throughout the 𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗿𝗲 𝗹𝗶𝗳𝗲𝗰𝘆𝗰𝗹𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝘀𝗼𝗹𝗮𝗿 + 𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗿𝗮𝗴𝗲 𝗮𝘀𝘀𝗲𝘁.

We’ve seen what goes wrong years after commissioning: 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗱𝘂𝗰𝘁 𝗳𝗮𝗶𝗹𝘂𝗿𝗲𝘀, 𝗶𝗻𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝘀𝗵𝗼𝗿𝘁𝗰𝘂𝘁𝘀, 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗱𝗲𝘀𝗶𝗴𝗻 𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁𝘀 that only show up when warranties are long gone.

That’s why our team of experts:
  • Flag risks during drawing reviews — before they hit the field
  • Use real-world inspection data to improve current designs
  • Catch installation missteps contractors miss under schedule pressure

Whether it’s your first project or your fiftieth, we help you own confidently — for the long term! 

Transcription:

Our role essentially in a nutshell is just mitigating risk for our client. We want to make sure that the risks they have both in the present stage construction of a project and the long-term ownership of the project are limited or non-existent. Our whole role is when we're doing drawing reviews the issues that we are flagging for them in the drawings are issues that we see being a risk to their success long-term. So by calling it out early especially in the drawing stage you can hopefully design out those risks. The first step is just to make them go away simply by design.

When we get to the product stage my team is very heavily involved in inspections and follow-ups and we do inspections on projects that have been commissioned years in the past. So we see the long-term effects of some products that are being used and different methodologies of installation. So we're using some of that real-world data that we're collecting to impact the current design and we say okay well we've seen this product in use and here are some of the issues that we see down the line in 3 to 5 years. So either you can design that out now or you have to make this tweak to your design in order to mitigate your risk later and the same thing during installation.

Contractors are trying to build a project on time, on budget, as fast as they can. They don't always have the time to sit down and read the installation manual for every piece of equipment. We've read most of those so when my guys go out to the field they're looking to make sure things were installed correctly that it's not going to have a problem immediately upon energization and then similarly it's not going to have a problem that develops in the next couple of years that once all the warranties are out of play that all of a sudden now your equipment fails because some installation decision ten years ago, came to fruition and now your box blows up.