What is the difference between EPC and EPC?

EPC: Engineering, procurement and construction, which is the general name of international engineering general contracting industry.

Engineering: from the overall planning of project content to specific design work, procurement: from professional equipment procurement to building materials, construction: from building installation to technical training. The fields involved are energy (traditional electricity, clean energy, etc. ), transportation (railways, highways, etc. ) and architecture. General contracting is one of the general contracting modes. They are inclusion relations.

General contracting: a contracting method adopted by the project owner to achieve the project objectives. In other words, the unit engaged in project construction is entrusted by the owner to contract the whole process or several stages of the development cycle of the construction project from decision-making, design to trial operation according to the contract.

It should be noted that only the contracted tasks include two or more projects in the development cycle at the same time can it be called general contracting. The design stage can start with scheme design, technical design or construction drawing design, and the single general contract is included in its scope.

Second, the advantages are different.

The EPC model has the following three basic advantages:

1. Emphasize and give full play to the leading role of design in the whole project construction process. Emphasizing and exerting the leading role of design in the whole project construction process is conducive to the continuous optimization of the overall project construction plan.

2. The contradiction between design, procurement and construction is effectively overcome, which is conducive to the reasonable connection of design, procurement and construction, effectively realizes the progress, cost and quality control of construction projects in line with the construction project contract, and ensures better investment benefits.

3. The subject of construction project quality responsibility is clear, which is conducive to investigating the project quality responsibility and determining the undertaker of the project quality responsibility.

Advantages of general contracting:

1, which is conducive to optimizing resource allocation. Foreign experience has proved that the implementation of general contracting reduces resource occupation and management costs. In China, it can be reflected from three levels.

The owner got rid of the messy affairs in the process of project construction and avoided the waste of personnel and funds; The main contractor reduces the cost of changes, disputes, disputes and claims, and makes the links of funds, technology and management more closely linked; Therefore, the social specialization of subcontractors can be improved.

2. It is conducive to optimizing the organizational structure and forming economies of scale. First, it is possible to reconstruct three kinds of gradient tower structures: general contracting, construction contracting and subcontracting; Second, the organizational form can be transformed from a single type to a comprehensive and modern open type, and finally integrated into a large enterprise group with capital, technology and management intensive; Third, it is convenient to expand market share; The fourth is to improve the ability to participate in BOT.

3. It is beneficial for government departments to break the monopoly of the industry and concentrate on solving the most prominent problems in the construction market, and it is also conducive to the implementation of the risk protection system. Because only large companies with strong comprehensive strength can easily obtain guarantees.

4. It is beneficial to control the project cost and improve the bidding level. On the premise of strengthening the design responsibility, the "investment bottomless pit" in project contracting is eliminated through the double bidding of conceptual design and price. Moreover, due to the implementation of general contracting, the bidding cost can be greatly reduced.

5, is conducive to improve the comprehensive performance ability, ensure the quality and time limit for a project. Practice has proved that general contracting is the most convenient way to give full play to the advantages of large contractors such as strong technical force, strong management ability and rich experience. At the same time, because all construction links are under the command of the general contractor, the comprehensive coordination room of each link is greatly enhanced, which is very conducive to ensuring quality and progress.

6, is conducive to promoting the modernization of management. As the coordination center, the general contracting mode must establish a computer system to make all work electronic, informational, automatic and standardized, improve the management level and efficiency, and greatly enhance the international contracting competitiveness of China enterprises.

Third, the characteristics are different.

The characteristics of EPC mode can be summarized as follows:

1. Under EPC general contracting mode, the employer (owner) should not be too strict with the general contractor, but should give the general contractor more freedom to work in the construction project.

For example, employers (owners) should not review most construction drawings and should not check every construction process. What the owner (owner) needs to do is to know the progress of the project, whether the quality of the project meets the requirements of the contract, and whether the construction result can finally meet the functional standards of the construction project stipulated in the contract.

2. Owners generally manage EPC general contracting projects in two ways: process control mode and post supervision mode.

The so-called process control mode means that the employer (owner) hires a supervision engineer to supervise all aspects of the "design, procurement and construction" of the general contractor and issue a payment certificate. The owner (owner) intervenes in the management of the project implementation process through the supervision of each link by the supervision engineer. This mode is adopted in the Contract Conditions of Production Equipment and Design-Construction (first edition 1999) compiled by FIDIC.

The so-called post supervision model means that the employer (owner) generally does not participate in the management of the project implementation process, but strictly checks the completion acceptance, and post supervision the whole process of project implementation through strict completion acceptance. This mode is adopted in the Contract Conditions for Design, Procurement and Construction (first edition 1999) compiled by FIDIC.

3. The general contractor of 3.EPC general contracting project takes overall responsibility for the whole process of "design, procurement and construction" of the construction project, and takes overall responsibility for the quality of the construction project and the performance of various professional subcontractors of the construction project. That is, the general contractor is the first responsible person of EPC general contracting project.

The characteristics of the general contracting model can be summarized as follows:

1. Project mode represents the mainstream of modern western project management, is the perfect combination of construction project management mode (CM) and design, and is also a model for successfully using this mode to shorten the construction period and reduce investment.

2. Build high-rise buildings and large-scale industrial projects at high speed and low cost.

3. Qualified professional subcontractors and standardized process control and procedures are the basis of its simple and efficient design, manufacture and construction.

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