From Owners Engineer to Consulting Engineer, from technology due diligence (DD) to Financial DD, SES delivers value beyond engineering, supporting projects at each stage of the journey.

Our strategic alliance with supply and installation companies and a multi-billion dollar EPC engineering and construction company enables SES to guide you through the whole project development process from your initial concept to final build-out and commissioning. Respected legal partnerships ensure that the project is correctly structured for funding by our collaborating banks and funding institutions.

1. Pre-Feasibility Study
A high level initial appraisal to quickly evaluate project viability:

Site appraisal and selection
Suggest suitable technologies
Consideration of CHP and district heating
Initial economic appraisal
Review Government subsidies
Indentify regulatory framework
Waste stream review and recycling study

2. Feasibility Study
High level evaluation of identified technologies and supplier companies:

Refined list of technologies
Desktop DD of technologies
Issue technology performance questionnaires
Conduct company economic reviews
High level Cap Ex and OpEx budgets
Produce weighted technology selection matrix
Shortlist technology providers
Identify environmental constraints

3. Contractual Due Diligence
Detailed review of manufacturer and operational facilities:

Site visit to manufacturer
Reference site visit
Review of manufacturing standards
Verification of operational Mass-Energy balance
Refined CapEx and OpEx budgets
Environmental DD

4. Preliminary Economic Forecasts
Funders initial economic model:

Carbon footprinting
Preliminary economic performance forecast
Indicative P&Ls, cashflows and DSCRs for funding
Indicative IRRs for equity partners
Introduction to funding institutions

5. Corporate Legal Advice
Our bank recognised legal associates produce contracts acceptable to senior debt providers:

Equity and JV partnership agreements
Feedstock supply agreements
Power purchase agreements
Heat supply agreements
Funding terms and agreements

6. Outline Designs
Design preparation for planning:

Outline structural designs by our design partners
3D models and photo montages
Initial construction budgets
Initial equipment budgets
Spatial planning and design optimisation
Noise and nuisance modelling and mitigation

7. Planning and Permitting
Preparation of the planning application:

EIA screening and scoping
Preparation of EIA and ES
Landscape and visual impact assessment
Stakeholder engagement
Planning statement
Environmental permitting
Inquiry evidence documentation

8. Fundraising
Presentation to major funding institutions:

Detailed economic forecasts
Business plan
Introduction to funders
In principal funding agreements
Financial DD

9. Front-End Engineering Design (FEED)
In partnership with a multi-billion dollar EPC construction and engineering company we undertake detailed design for construction and procurement:

Structural engineering
Process engineering
Landscape architecture
Highways and transportation
Detailed geotech
Heat & Power systems and infrastructure

10. Procurement Specification
Develop full procurement specifications and receive bids from established supply chain:

Procurement specifications
Invitations to tender
Tender evaluations

11. CDM

Client’s CDM coordinator
Review construction plan
Health & Safety review
Maintain Health & Safety file

12. Project Management

Establish project timeline
Determine critical path
Project tracking
Stagegate reviews
Final sign off

13. Commissioning/Acceptance Trials

Performance modelling & verification
Performance optimisation
Compliance with acceptance criteria

14. Operation and Maintenance

Training of operating team
Comparison with predicted performance
Maintenance scheduling
Re-optimisation of performance

Sustainable Environmental Systems Ltd products

Technologies

In-vessel Composting