Making Projects Construction-Ready Before They Reach Site

A Structured Method Built From Site Experience

Laterite Technical Services was formed after repeated involvement in projects where delays were not caused by engineering complexity or lack of effort from field personnel, but by poor visibility of real installation progress and coordination gaps between planning, construction and commissioning.

Through this experience, Laterite has developed a practical, site-based readiness and tracking method designed to connect project controls with actual installation progress on site.

The method focuses on identifying subsystem completion, system interfaces and handover requirements early — before energisation and commissioning stages.

Key elements include:

• Clear definition of workfront readiness

• Coordination of dependencies between disciplines

• Real-time tracking of construction and subsystem completion

• Alignment of construction activities with commissioning requirements

• Structured communication between supervisors, subcontractors and client teams

• Visibility of handover and documentation status

Because progress is tracked at subsystem level rather than schedule percentages, the project team gains reliable visibility of what is actually complete and what is actually ready.

This also produces accurate actual execution cost data based on real installation progress rather than estimated completion values. Emerging schedule pressure and cost risk can therefore be identified earlier, while corrective action is still possible.

The objective is not additional reporting — it is making project status visible and allowing construction to naturally support commissioning and practical completion.

Projects typically lose time late due to:

• Labour mobilised before workfronts are ready

• Systems installed but not testable

• Conflicting contractor direction

• Missing commissioning prerequisites

• Incomplete documentation at handover