Featured in Spotlight on quality – 04-2021

We all trust the performance ratio test – but should we?

The performance ratio test is at the core of the handover from EPC to owner. Yet sometimes, even when best practice is applied – and without particularly demanding guaranteed values to be achieved – these tests fail good projects. This can lead to costly delays and wasted effort spent trying to find issues that might not exist. Everoze Partner Dario Brivio reviews the likelihood of this happening and considers ways to increase confidence in the precision of such tests, based on recent independent analysis of real-world projects.

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pv magazine

07 Apr 2021

For an EPC to successfully achieve provisional acceptance certification (PAC), they must demonstrate, among other things, that the project’s performance ratio (PR) meets or exceeds a guaranteed value as defined in the EPC contract. To do so, the EPC contractor performs a PR test according to the rules defined in the contract, with the test …

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