Implementing Project Management Best Practices
Elebrium partners with client leadership teams to embed targeted project management best practices that drive on time and on budget performance in asset development programs. The following describe some of the practices we bring to your teams.
Gated Project Development
Elebrium empowers clients to optimize deployment of their capital resources by shaping investment opportunities through a rigorous, phased front-end process. Our gated approach ensures clarity, diligence, and strategic alignment as projects progress toward the Financial Investment Decision (FID) through the following three gates:
Business Definition Gate – Front-End Loading 1 (FEL1)
Facility Definition Gate – Front-End Loading 2 (FEL2) or Pre-FEED
Project Definition & Planning Gate – Front-End Loading 3 (FEL3) or Front End Engineering Design (FEED)
Project Definition Readiness Rating System
The Project Definition Rating Index (PDRI) is a proven tool for evaluating project scope and readiness at pre-determined gates, enabling organizations to identify gaps and address risks before key decisions are taken to commit funds and resources.
Inadequate project definition is one of the leading causes of budget overruns, delays, and project failures, and at worst incorrect investment decisions. Our PDRI facilitation and training Services equip your teams with the knowledge and strategies to leverage this powerful framework, ensuring your investment decisions support the business case and integrate PDRI seamlessly into your planning process.
Interactive Planning
In the world of complex projects, success begins with a strong foundation: a strategically planned, integrated, resource-loaded and knowledge-driven schedule, and our Interactive Planning process and workshop is your gateway to establish such a project schedule.
We bring together key stakeholders - owners, contractors, and vendors — in dynamic, expertly facilitated sessions. Together, you'll collaboratively develop a fully integrated project schedule that aligns with Project Scope, Execution Plan and Risk Management Profile. The process also is a great empowerment tool, fostering buy-in and accountability across the team.
Value Improvement Practices
Elevate your project performance with Elebrium Energy’s Value Improvement Practices (VIP) Workshop, a dynamic offering tailored for energy, materials, and infrastructure sector projects. Our proven methodology empowers teams to embed high-value decision-making across every phase of development, from concept to execution through to operations. Through strategic facilitation, technical insight, and collaborative risk-focused exercise, we help unlock cost-efficiency, enhance schedule reliability, and drive operational excellence while aligning with sustainability and stakeholder objectives.
Implementing Project Management Best Practices
Elebrium partners with client leadership teams to embed targeted project management best practices that drive on time and on budget performance in asset development programs. The following describe some of the practices we bring to your teams.
Equipment Criticality Rating
Elebrium Energy’s Equipment Criticality Rating (ECR) framework ranks equipment based on its impact on safety, operability, and production continuity, giving project teams a clear view of where failure risk is most consequential. By prioritizing engineering rigor, procurement focus, and maintenance strategy around high‑criticality assets, ECR strengthens reliability, availability and reduces lifecycle risk.
Class of Plant
The “Class of Plant” practice gives owners a clear, risk‑based framework that defines the reliability, operability, and investment expectations for a process facility. By standardizing these requirements upfront, owners achieve predictable performance, disciplined cost, and consistent asset quality across their entire portfolio.
Advanced Work Packaging
Elebrium Energy’s AWP services turn complex capital programs into disciplined, risk‑controlled execution. By integrating engineering, procurement, and construction through tailored work packages, AWP boosts productivity, strengthens schedule certainty, and reduces critical delivery risks across the asset lifecycle.
Workface Planning
Elebrium Energy’s Workface Planning (WFP), working integrally with Advanced Work Packaging, turns high‑level plans into fully resourced, workface‑ready packages that keep crews executing without interruption. This disciplined approach cuts idle time, drives schedule certainty, and lifts both morale and safe performance at the point of execution.
Strategic Organization Behavior & Design
Moving beyond traditional discipline silos, we guide teams to adopt shallow hierarchies and integrated workflows designing lean, agile, and process-centric organizational structures, that reflect modern management principles and promote accountability, collaboration, and speed.
High Performance Teams
Capital projects succeed through cohesive, high-performance teams. Through refined work processes and targeted interactive sessions, we elevate team dynamics, enhance problem-solving, and build a resilient, results-driven culture. The result: agile, aligned teams that overcome challenges and deliver excellence