CDG strives to make our clients’ lives easier. We enjoy solving problems, and our experience has taught us how to do that in a manner that best serves our clients.

Front-end planning is a great way to start solving a client’s problem without having to expend a lot of cost. On a project, engineering may cost 8-10% of the project construction. For the life of that project in operations and maintenance, engineering may cost 1-2%. Front-end planning is going to be a fraction of that engineering cost. With CDG’s well-rounded firm and knowledgeable engineers, clients can leverage that wealth of experience at the planning stage. Ultimately, this saves them money on capital spending, construction, or O&M while still completing a successful project or plan.

What is great about front-end planning is a client can get a lot of the headaches resolved before determining the approach they want to take to implement their project or plan. How a client decides to implement that front-end plan can vary. But CDG’s flexibility allows us to help our clients transition their project to the next stage. Whether that is a Design-Bid-Build project with final engineering, construction support, and commissioning or a Design-Build project with a contractor or EPC. During front-end planning, CDG can remain agnostic to your project approach and help determine the best way to implement a project or the plan. CDG has a number of close relationships with builders where CDG can serve as the owner-engineer and run that project from start to finish.

Front End Planning Services that CDG can provide:

Long Term Planning
– Integrated Resource Planning
– Multi-year Capital Expenditure
– Site Reclamation and closure
– Facility Maintenance Planning and Scheduling

Project Studies and Justification
– Engineering Due Diligence
– Feasibility and Cost Estimates
– Permitting and Code Compliance
– Alternatives analysis
– Site Layouts

Project Phasing and Scheduling
– Project Definition
– Transition to Final Engineering
– Transition to Construction