Work Breakdown Structures
Engineering project plan
o Conceptual
Planning and Control
Business plan identifying project opportunity
Define project objective and information needs
Identify industry standards for project objectives
Develop preliminary conceptual schedule and staffing
Initial planning complete
Develop appropriation strategy
Develop management model and staff plan
Site Assessment
Identify potential sites
Define infrastructure requirements
Define utility needs
Identify project site
Assess regulatory and environmental impacts
Identify permitting requirements
Recommend site
Site and planning review
Scope Definition
Develop general scope for project objectives
Evaluate project needs, develop major study list
Start major studies
Complete major studies and make recommendations
Develop specific scope
Prepare final conceptual schedule
Provide written scope information
Discipline Support
Create deliverables list
Start flow sheets and design criteria
Start discipline-specific drawings and equipment list
Start conceptual layout
Complete flow sheets and design criteria
Complete discipline-specific drawings and equipment list
Complete conceptual layout
Conceptual Phase Completion
Prepare conceptual scope and estimate for review
Evaluate business plan - rework as needed
Conceptual phase complete
o Definition
Planning and Control
Review conceptual plan
Update project staffing plan
Develop project contingency and indirect cost factors
Identify definition phase engineering deliverables
Scope Definition
Review studies list
Provide design requirements
Establish vendor data requirements/equipment budgets
Define equipment specifications and list
Generate piping and instrument drawing (PID)
Discipline Support
Review regulatory agency requirements
Generate general arrangement and site plans
Develop discipline specific control drawings, lists, specifications
Evaluate input on feasibility of construction input
Definition Phase Completion
Generate scope document (including infrastructure)
Generate project capital estimate
Establish project schedule
Review definition, scope and estimate
Scope complete/issue cost estimate
Appropriate project monies
Project authorized
o Design
Planning and Control
Review definition, scope and estimate
Develop or update project procedures
Finalize design and construction schedule
Develop and manage issues list
Procure long delivery equipment
Establish and implement procurement and contracting plan
Plan and staff design phase
Define engineering presentation and content for specifications and
drawings
Implement document control
Establish project monitoring
Develop project cost control and earned value system
Finalize deliverables list
Implement project reporting
Invoice approval/contract payments
Procure equipment
Implement expediting including vendor drawings
Training start-up plan
Scope Refinement
Update project design criteria
Issue for design: equipment list
Issue for discipline design: piping and instrument drawings (PIDs)
Issue for discipline design: general arrangement drawings
(GAs)/site plan
Equipment specification, bid, vendor selection
Process equipment functional descriptions
Discipline Support
Establish discipline governing code requirements
Review and finalize discipline standards and specifications
Start Discipline Design
Start architectural design
Start civil design
Start mechanical design
Start piping design
Start structural design
Start electrical design
Start instrumentation design
Implement first quality review
Vendor drawing review (all disciplines)
Vendor drawing certification (all disciplines)
Cross discipline engineering review
Complete equipment list
Complete PIDs
Complete GAs/site plan
Complete Discipline Design
Complete architectural design
Complete civil design
Complete mechanical design
Complete structural design
Complete piping design
Complete electrical design
Complete instrumentation design
Implement second quality review
Implement code compliance and safety reviews
Design Phase Completion
Check and redraft drawings and lists (all disciplines)
Produce permit drawings and code compliance calculations
(all disciplines)
Issue engineering for permitting, bidding and construction
Contractor selection/contract review
Project complete - close out report, issue drawings of
record
o Construction
Select construction contractor
Mobilize on site
Construction
Construction complete
Construction of a House Waste, water & treatment plan
o Foundation o Scr & equalization basin
Excavation Mobilization
Pour concrete Equipment set-up
Cure & strip forms Walk ways
Steel Erection Excavate & backfill
Columns Entrance
Beams Strip topsoil
Joists Excavate & fill
o Internal Form & pour slab
Form & pour walls
Electricity
Form & pour walks
Rough-in electrical
Backfill
Install and terminate
Electrical
HVAC equipment
Paint & finishes
Plumbing
o Pump station
Rough-in plumbing
Set plumbing fixtures Set precast station
and trim Backfill
Test and clean Set pumps & vault
o External Piping
Electrical
Masonry Work
o Control building
Lay masonry
Install roof drains Fill
Tiling in toilet rooms Excavate & pour footings
Roofing Masonry to floor level
Building Finishes Pipe & electric under slab
Paint walls Form & pour slab
Tile ceilings Masonry & openings
Hang wallpaper Roof framing
Carpets Plumbing
Hardware Hvac & electrical
Finishes
Fill site
o General construction
Concrete
Set equipment
Piping
Electrical
Roads
Fence
Finish grade & seed
Startup & test
Project substantial
completion
Engineer & control
Strip topsoil
Scr & equalization basin
Excavate & fill