Organizations must adopt a rigorous approach to packaging work, with the construction sequence driving both engineering and procurement by discipline.
CWA—Construction Work Area
CWP—Construction Work Package
EWP—Engineering Work Package
PWP—Procurement Work Package
IWP—Installation Work Package
SWP—Start Up and Commissioning Work Package
Step 2: Data management
Data management and the “golden thread of data,” providing a digital data record of everything associated with the project processes, materials, decisions, and operation, is essential to Advanced Work Packaging as a delivery approach to capital projects. Both change to an organization’s current data structures and delivery approach as well as executive sponsorship are required for Advanced Work Packaging to be successfully implemented.
Step 3: Package delivery by discipline, to the field
Ultimately, the AWP methodology focuses on ensuring that constraint free packages of work are available to the crafts, to install, ensuring smooth start-up to deliver on schedule. To achieve this, a Path of Construction (POC), documenting how your capital project will be built and how engineering and procurement deliverables will support that effort, must be established on day one. The POC then influences how the engineering and procurement are packaged, managed, and monitored to ensure compliance and on time execution/delivery to site.
As organizations transition to this new methodology, executive sponsorship is key. An organization’s employees and their supply chain must be trained on how to adopt AWP and what its benefits are.
