POWER Engineers is a consulting engineering firm specializing in the energy industry. They discussed how they help utility clients manage large transmission programs through an integrated program management approach using Primavera P6, Contract Management, and their POWER360 program management platform. This allows standardized processes, improved reporting, financial controls, risk management, and contractor oversight to help clients deliver projects on budget and schedule. They demonstrated how data is extracted from P6 and Contract Management using BI Publisher for customized reporting and dashboards covering areas like cost tracking, scheduling, construction resources, and outage coordination.

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Primavera P6 and Contract
Management Together: True Program
Controls in the Utility Industry
Prepared by:
John Moorman
POWER Engineers, Inc and
Warren Krueger
LoadSpring Solutions, Inc.
Session ID#: 15480

2. Topics
■ POWER Engineers, Inc. Introduction
■ Program Component Summary
■ Shaping Program Management to Fit
■ Extracting P6 and PCM Data for Custom Reporting
■ Working with BI Publisher
■ Program Document Management
■ POWER360
■ License Allocation Support

3. Consulting engineering firm specializing in needs of energy industry.
1,700 employees, 30+ offices nationwide.
Ranked among top 3 transmission/distribution engineering firms for past 10 years.
Offers complete multidiscipline engineering, environmental, construction management and
program management services.
Experience includes
some of the largest
transmission
projects in the
country
POWER Engineers, Inc.

4. Program Component Summary

5. Program management – your way
Shaping expertise, process & tools to fit your program needs
Program
Management
Safety
Schedule
Management
Engineering
Communications
& Document
Management
Construction
ManagementProcurement
Cost Estimating
Contract
Management
Program
Information
Management
(POWER360™)
Planning &
Integration (PEP) Risk Management
Testing &
EnergizationProject Closeout
Construction
InspectionProject
Management
Quality
Management
Environmental &
Regulatory
Materials
Management
Real Estate/ROW
Cost
Management
Program Requirements Program Team Design Interfacing Process & Tools
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6. P6/PCM and POWER360 Integration

7. Innovative Integration with BI Publisher
■ Simplified data extraction when you can get the data out of
P6 and CM using BI Publisher.
▪ Output to XML format
▪ Schedule extracts using BI Publisher Scheduler
■ Demonstration
▪ Extract How-To’s using BI Publisher

8. BI Publisher “Gotchas”
■ Query samples from Primavera P6 and Primavera Contract
Management
■ Versions
■ P6 Extended Schema
■ Data Volumes for Time Phased Data
■ New Program Setups

9. Program Dashboards

10. Document Management
Access = all project libraries and folders
Access = only projects assigned

11. PDF Reports Sent to Program Document
Management Platform
P6 EPPM
Primavera Contract
Management
BI Publisher 11g
Standard Folder
Structure
SFTPSFTP
Batch Routine
(Append file date to
filename)
To SharePoint
(weekly)
DMZ
Public Folders

12. Outage Management

13. Contractor Progress Status

14. Trends
Trends:
■ Downsizing/Lean
operations
■ Major capital programs
■ Clients are Ill equipped
to deliver

15. The traditional program delivery model
Delivering engineering excellence through the program lifecycle
Owner Operations
Engineering Regulatory Environmental Real Estate Constr. Super
PMO Contracts ProcurementF&A
Planning
Operations
Safety
Engineering
CM
Construction
Environment
Commissioning
Development
Procurement
Owner’s Engineer
Project Management
Owner contracts,
integrates and manages
component projects
Owner performs key
functions in-house
T&D Delivery Lifecycle
Our focus is
delivering excellent
engineering

16. The program management delivery model
Building on a strong partnership to deliver full program objectives
Program Management
Engineering
Constr Mgmt
Construction
Environment
Commissioning
Owner Operations
Development
Procurement
Owner’s Engineer
Project Management
Integration Project Mgmt Controls Risk Mgmt Contr Mgmt
Planning Info Mgmt
Owners searching for a
program support model
that works for them
Don’t want to hand-off
control - cautious of “program
management” model, want
integrated team
Forms of Program Support:
 OEC+
 OE/CM
 Project Management Services
 Project Planning & Mgmt Services
T&D Delivery Lifecycle

17. Owner expected benefits
achieving in-service dates, budgets and cash flow forecasts
■ Standardized processes for project management
■ Increased visibility through on-demand portfolio level
reporting
■ Financial controls for improved forecasts and variance
analysis
■ Tight integration with Owner team
■ Mitigate risks through effective risk response planning
■ Improved information flow between outside parties and
internal resources
■ Integrated master schedule & milestone tracking
■ Improved contractor management and change control
■ Better outage planning

18. Cost and Schedule Data Identification
and Integration

19. Cost and Schedule Data Sourcing and
Integration

20. Construction Resource Loading by
Contractor and Project Type (Substation, T-
Line)

21. Construction Labor Histogram by
Contractor

22. Cost Tracking and Cash Flow

23. Integrated Master Schedule: Outage
Coordination

24. License Management

25. Questions
■ Thank You

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