Project Options

With an experienced and highly qualified technical team, we can undertake projects on your behalf while maintaining close contact with your in-house operations regarding progress and technical issues. Our flexible project options enable you to control your budgets and avoid the risk of overspend while assured of a timely, reliable and quality solution.

Flexibility

Flexibility is key to our services. We run projects as short a half a day for a straightforward verification exercise to multi-year contracts to support and optimise new product development. Most standard project work is undertaken within our head office in the UK for efficiency but this can be combined with on-site Secondments and Technology Transfer services.

Communication

Close communication ensures we deliver to your requirements.

You are allocated an account manager who works alongside our consulting staff to ensure both your commercial and technical objectives are met. 

The scope of any project is clearly agreed and defined upfront and we ensure that you are kept informed of progress. This includes any discoveries, issues or concerns that arise from intermediate results that may influence the direction and duration of the project.

Project meetings are important and encouraged, particularly for complex assignments or design optimisation services. These can take place either at our headquarters or your offices. In addition, to minimise your project costs and delivery times while adhering to our Environmental Management policy, we promote web conferencing as much as possible.

Reporting

Clear and meaningful presentation of results is an essential way for us to add value. Various levels of reporting are available to suit your requirements:

• Extensive – often required for regulatory authorities
• Standard – Full report, but without the detail of the Extensive report
• Summary – Limited to basic facts and important conclusions, often presented in a slide  format

If you would like to continue the project in-house, we can also deliver the results databases from any analysis tools used to enable you to recreate the analysis and further investigate the results. This can include the provision of appropriate software licenses.

Pricing

After agreeing a scope of work and timescales, we can structure the pricing of your project in many ways:

• Fixed Price, against fixed quotation.
• Reimbursable.
• Reimbursable, against target price.
• Call-off contracts

Assessment Services

Through the Wilde Group, we retain senior engineering staff with extensive experience in mechanical and civil structures, including design, analysis and failure investigation studies. Independent third-party assessments are typically undertaken in the following areas:

• Assessment of designs to confirm Fitness for Purpose
• Peer review & independent assessment of  Safety Case Documentation, including the critical examination of third party  studies and reports
• Client support in technical Litigation and Arbitration Cases, including Expert Witness representation

Program Development

We have in-house scripting skills to help customise software and automate processes, ranging from the creation of macros and engineering calculation worksheets to the development of translators, material models and software wizards.We have undertaken such projects for both clients and software developers.

Example Projects

Our Case Study Library illustrates a range of non-confidential projects that we have undertaken. Our Capabilities and Project Services are applicable to all engineering sectors and consequently we not daunted by the specific product or process that needs attention. Since 1980, we have been involved in a diverse range of projects such as: