Sector focus Turnkey EPC for a new factory — what the word actually covers
"Turnkey EPC for a new factory" means two very different scopes depending on who is answering, and getting the distinction wrong at tender is how greenfield projects end up with a gap nobody priced. One is the civil and structural package: the shell, the foundations, the PEB, the flooring. The other is the services package: the power, the HVAC, the plumbing, the fire systems and the statutory approvals that turn a shell into an operating factory. We are the second, delivered end to end under one contract — and the reason we say so plainly is that the interface between the two is where greenfield programmes are actually lost.
- What we take end to end
- HT/LT power from the DISCOM interface to the last outlet, transformers and DG, HVAC and process ventilation, plumbing and treatment, fire protection and detection, and the low-voltage systems — designed, procured, installed, tested and commissioned as one scope with one owner. Plus the statutory file: factory plan approval, Fire NOC, pollution board consent, CEIG and net metering, filed in-house.
- The interface that decides the programme
- The shell contractor pours the floor, casts the tank, sets the pump-room walls and fixes the roof before the services contractor is usually on site. Every one of those is a services decision made by someone else. Where we are appointed at design stage rather than after the structure is up, that coordination happens on drawings. Where we are appointed late, it happens with a breaker.
- Approvals run in parallel, not after
- A new factory needs the factory plan approved before construction, the fire scheme approved before the tank is cast, and the consent conditions settled before the utilities are designed. Programmes that treat approvals as a closing activity discover the sequence in the wrong order. Ours run alongside procurement.
- What single-point accountability has to mean
- One contract, one programme, one team answering for whether the systems work together — not a main contractor holding six subcontracts and forwarding their emails. Ask any turnkey bidder which of the disciplines they self-perform and which they will sublet, and the answer tells you where the accountability actually sits.
For a greenfield unit the honest sequence is: settle the services scope and the approvals path at design stage, then let the civil package proceed against drawings that already account for them. The factory approvals roadmap sets out the full clearance sequence for a new unit in the order the departments need it.
