3 Powerful AWP Resource Tools The Advanced Work Packaging Health Assessment If you’re just starting out or well on your way to implementing AWP it’s important to know how healthy your program is. O3 has developed a quick survey to provide you with a health score for your AWP program. It just takes a few...

The Top 5 Must-Know AWP Facts Advanced Work Packaging is a CII Best Practice The Construction Industry Institute defines Advanced Work Packaging (AWP) as the overall process flow of all the detailed work packages (construction, engineering, and installation work packages). AWP is a planned, executable process that encompasses the work on an EPC project, beginning...

… Advanced Work Packaging and Engineering By Josh Girvin, O3 Solutions CEO Advanced Work Packaging (AWP) is doing a lot to change the power dynamic in capital project execution. Previously, Engineering owned the early project stages, and Construction was treated as the end result, often being handed information as it became available, in whatever sequence...

By Josh Girvin, O3 Solutions CEO … Construction is the intended beneficiary of the AWP process, which is why it is always hard to hear pushback from Construction contractors about using AWP. “We don’t need this. We’re great at construction, and our people have been doing this for decades”. While I have no reason to...

… Advanced Work Packaging Software By Josh Girvin, O3 Solutions CEO I can’t count the number of times when I was young that I heard someone say “If you want something done properly, do it yourself”. While that remains an excellent life lesson for self-actualization, it doesn’t apply to all aspects of our working lives....

AWP Implementation Toolkit … Starting out on an AWP journey can seem like a daunting prospect. Typically, you will find yourself in the position of having a blank piece of paper for your internal process and a mountain of available data from the industry that tries to explain the concept. The major difficulty for companies,...

By Josh Girvin, O3 Solutions CEO Josh Girvin, O3 CEO and Founder, sits down with Andrew Foy, VP of AWP and Construction Excellence, to ask questions about Advanced Work Packaging 101. … Despite its increasing popularity and use in capital projects within industrial construction, there are still a lot of misconceptions and misunderstandings about what...

Can Advanced Work Packaging survive the demise of Oil & Gas? By Josh Girvin, O3 Solutions CEO There has been a lot of recent talk about the impending demise of the oil and gas industry. The term “impending” must be used loosely because nothing like this happens overnight, and it will likely be years before...

2021 Advanced Work Packaging Conference Recap Check out some of the highlights from this year’s two-day event focused on optimizing AWP from the front-end through to commissioning and startup. The AWP Conference 2021 was led by industry subject matter experts including EPC firms and Owners. This year’s conference emphasized the importance of AWP systems to...