Product Tour—Renewables Construction Project Management

Oracle Smart Construction Platform for renewable energy projects

Renewable energy makes the best use of the resources we have, such as the sun and wind. We can apply that same principle to how we build renewables projects and operate them throughout their lives.

We want to make the best use of our resources, including funding, labor, materials, and equipment. Just like it takes know-how and technology to harness energy from the sun and wind, we need proven technology to optimize resources on the projects themselves.

Cross-organization team collaboration

Renewables projects are complex, involve specialized expertise, and require multiple organizations to collaborate. Having all parties in lockstep across project phases and disciplines while managing thousands of pieces of information reduces miscommunication, rework, and delays, enabling project success.

Cross-entity permitting process

Permits are often needed across federal and local jurisdictions, multiple municipalities, and even into international waters. By using the Packages capabilities in Oracle Aconex, the permit process can be broken down into manageable chunks.

Interoperable schedules and work packages

The integration between Oracle Aconex and Oracle Primavera Cloud Schedule ties the permitting deliverables to your schedule. Track date changes and see if there’s a variance between plan and actual throughout the permitting process.

Use the schedule integrated risk functionality to assign and quantify risk related to various permitting steps, enabling more visibility into the likelihood of planned approvals and the ability to release assigned contingencies as risk windows pass.

Workflow tracking

In one consolidated view, you can keep track of all your workflows, including durations, due dates, what’s been approved, what’s due soon, what’s overdue, and whose court it’s in.

Bid management

Because of the specialized nature of renewables projects, the number of bids and complexity of the bid documents are significant. Easily prepare complete packages, set up bidders, answer requests for information from bidders, and distribute and amend bid requests, ensuring consistency and fairness throughout the process.

Project information management

Managing the volume of documentation and review and approval flows across all parties through a renewables project isn’t easy. Having all parties work in a central project system, in which each organization has secure access to their own individual workspaces, improves information management and collaboration and supports the creation of a full project record.

One connected data repository

Because organizations own and control their own data and have their own secure space, they don’t have to maintain both their own system and a project system. The single projectwide system increases accuracy and decreases cost. Ease of sharing within the system improves information flow, which decreases requests for information, miscommunication, errors, and rework and supports a full project record, crucial to the many years of operating the renewables asset.

Integrated CPM and task schedule management

Build and manage schedules for projects of any size using the critical path method (CPM), and unite your planning and field teams to ensure work is done according to the latest schedule, crews aren’t waiting idly for updates, and crucial renewables projects are delivered to plan and on schedule.

Integrated risk and schedule management

The integrated risk management capability ties quantified risks to potential schedule impacts. All relevant team members can identify and capture risks, letting more risks be addressed. Cross-project learning is supported, and timely release and automatic schedule adjustment happens as risk windows pass.

Integrated project and schedule management

As part of Oracle Smart Construction Platform for renewable energy projects, integrated schedule and project management lets you break down project work into trackable packages with specific deliverables and timelines.

With the integration between Aconex Packages and Oracle Primavera Cloud Schedule, you can see your list of packages and drill down to see package detail and associated documents.

Primavera schedule data visible in Oracle Aconex

You can also see the associated schedule activity information, such as planned start and finish dates.

Visibility into schedule date changes helps avoid surprises so you can take timely action.

Smart Construction Platform application switcher

Easily move between applications on your project.

Oracle Primavera Cloud Schedule

See the full schedule detail tied to your Oracle Aconex package.

Diversity and inclusion tracking

A diverse workforce with a variety of experience creates a stronger team that can outperform the competition. Organizations set ambitious targets to be inclusive, but tracking attainment can be a challenge. Oracle Textura Payment Management’s business classification and supplier diversity tracking make it easy for stakeholders to track attainment of contract value and what was actually spent.

Payment management

Save time, increase assurance, and decrease risk. Automate lien and payment management to ensure timely and accurate payments and lien waiver compliance. Streamline and automate your payment and compliance processes to improve efficiency, visibility, and control. Automatically store completed payment applications in your project record.

Compliance management

See what’s happening downstream to spot issues that could delay payments.

Use Oracle Textura Payment Management to get early visibility into potential issues from missing compliance documents or other crucial ones for such matters as insurance, safety, or disadvantaged business enterprise status.

Automate communications so everyone can make prompt corrections.

Oracle Smart Construction Platform for renewables