Strategy, Concept & Feasibility
Establish the business need, compare credible options and decide whether there is a viable project to define.
Explore objectives and outputsCapabilities
Practical engineering and dependable project execution.
JCMCE supports projects from early definition through design, procurement, construction, commissioning, handover and operation. Engineering disciplines can be commissioned individually or combined into a high quality multidisciplinary scope.
Project lifecycle
Understand the decisions, overlaps and release points.
The stages are a navigation framework, not a waterfall. Detailed design, procurement, supplier design, assurance, Approved for Construction release, manufacture, construction and commissioning overlap by package. Select a phase below to examine its objectives, evidence and decision points. Terminology is aligned to the client and sector, including FEL, concept, select, define, FEED, the RIBA Plan of Work, Network Rail PACE, legacy GRIP, client stage gates and regulatory hold points.
Integrated delivery map
One project. Several workstreams moving together.
Select a workstream to explore its scope, interfaces and release basis. The overview remains deliberately concise.
Lifecycle stages: 01, Strategy, Concept & Feasibility; 02, Definition & FEED; 03, Detailed Design & Assurance; 04, Manufacture & Construction; 05, Commissioning & Handover; 06, Operations & Asset Support.
No workstream is currently selected.
The package release cycleExplore the five decisions repeated for each package
Each package progresses at its own rate. Release depends on the evidence required for the decision being made, not a calendar boundary.
- 01Define the requirementDesign basis, scope, interfaces and acceptance criteria.
- 02Evaluate and appointTechnical and commercial review, clarification and order placement.
- 03Develop supplier designCalculations, drawings, data, responsibilities and interfaces.
- 04Assure and close actionsHAZOP, design review, verification and controlled action closeout.
- 05Authorise releaseManufacture, AFC construction, testing or the next package decision.
Definition & FEED
Develop the selected concept to a decision ready definition with a controlled technical, safety and execution basis.
Explore objectives and outputsDetailed Design & Assurance
Develop the design, support package procurement and progressively assure information as the supply chain is appointed.
Explore objectives and outputsManufacture & Construction
Integrate supplier design, control package releases and execute manufacture and construction through coordinated delivery.
Explore objectives and outputsCommissioning & Handover
Demonstrate that systems are complete, safe, functional and capable of meeting their intended performance before transfer to operations.
Explore objectives and outputsOperations & Asset Support
Protect safety, reliability, compliance and asset value through disciplined engineering support and controlled change.
Explore objectives and outputsNot sure which phase applies? Start with the business decision or delivery problem, not the terminology.
Help me find the right starting pointScope configuration
Structured around the project and its required outcomes.
The scope is built around the engineering decisions, quality requirements, risks, interfaces and delivery outcomes the client needs.
Defined engineering scope
Commission a discipline, study, design package or assurance activity with clear deliverables.
Integrated design and delivery
Coordinate engineering, quality, controls and commercial delivery through one accountable scope.
Client side support
Strengthen delivery through Owner’s Engineer, PMC, project management and independent review roles.
Delivery and commercial arrangement
Project stage and contracting model are separate decisions.
The project lifecycle describes when the work is undertaken. The contract defines who is responsible, how the services are delivered and how risk is allocated. JCMCE can provide a defined engineering discipline, an integrated design scope, project management, independent assurance, Owner’s Engineer support or PMC services. We can also work within EPC and EPCm delivery teams. Every appointment sets out the scope, interfaces, deliverables, programme, quality requirements, change control and commercial terms.
Capability directory
Find the expertise you need.
Explore scope, deliverables, lifecycle application and sector context.
Scope a requirement
Tell us what must be achieved.
We’ll help define the right technical scope and delivery model.