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🏗️ How did we manage to build Europe's largest net zero installer marketplace? The answer's pretty simple. We talked to installers—a lot of them—as we were creating our tendering platform. They told us what mattered to them when looking at projects; what parts of the tendering process drove them crazy; what made them sit up a bit straighter. In the end, this is what we came up with—an experience we like to call, 'tendering without the noise'. 📨 Pre-qualified customers sent straight to their inbox 📋 Project details compiled in a clear, concise format 🚀 Responses submitted in 13 questions or less 🔑 Hands-on support in arranging access for surveys Sounds pretty good, right? If you're an installer and want to find out more, us out at https://hubs.li/Q02QnNGM0

Despite everyone’s best intentions on projects, the reality is commissioning often gets planned too late. There are lots of competing priorities, and before you know it, commissioning is 5 months away, and you need a plan fast! What is the best thing to do in this situation, to prepare for commissioning as fast and efficiently as possible? Listen to the Industrial Commissioning Association’s latest podcast episode for the steps to take for late-stage planning of commissioning, to avoid delays on your project. #commissioning Industrial Commissioning Association

🗣 New paper published: "Pursuing Openness in the Digital Age: Insights from Client–Contractor Knowledge Collaboration at the Project Front End" 🔎 Project actors still struggle to bring client and contractor experts into an open, digitally enabled collaborative space where they can freely access and cocreate project-related knowledge. In this context, our case study explores client–contractor KC in the front-end phase of oil and gas projects in Norway to understand why project actors struggle to achieve KC openness in the digital age. 📌 Based on a qualitative analysis, the authors developed a model that displays two intertwined aspects giving rise to tensions between knowledge sharing and protection. Results show that these tensions stem from fragmented awareness of the expertise in the collaborating project organization. Second, the authors highlight how intrainstitutional complexity, instantiated in coexisting conflicting logics of digital and collaborative action, underlies divergent beliefs and behavior toward client–contractor KC and its digitalization. Xuteng Zhang, Wenxin Shen, Wenzhe Tang, Colin F. Duffield, Felix Kin Peng Hui, Lihai Zhang, Changsheng Lou Check it out: https://lnkd.in/dwteFzfW #DigitalCollaborationStruggle #KnowledgeCocreationBarrier #OilGasProjectInsights #NorwayProjectKC #FrontEndKnowledgeSharing #DigitalAgeChallenges #QualitativeCaseStudy #KnowledgeTensionModel #FragmentedExpertiseAwareness #IntrainstitutionalComplexity #ConflictingLogics #DigitalizationDilemma

The seeds that you sow early during the projects will determine the fruits you will get during pre-commisioning and commissioning.

Without effective commissioning, you risk an unstable climb, where unforeseen issues could prevent you from ever reaching the top. Commissioning paves the way for a triumphant ascent. #commissioning

I've read the most recent and informative article by Ian Rippin discussing further the planned changes to MCS. I welcome the consolidation of compliance with consumer protection, it's been too easy for customers to be pushed from pillar to post. One particular point in the article caught my eye - "A key part of this standardisation will be the requirement of a named Technical Supervisor to ‘sign off’ on the quality of a completed installation." Presently we use a Nominated Technical Person and my view has always been that this person should be a technical installer rather than someone in an office signing off dozens (if not hundreds) of projects that they have never visited. Remote commissioning is (in my humble opinion) simply, not commissioning. Unless the technical person is the one checking the full system, settings, affected design and loads more then it is a drive for more compliance and less care for the actual performance of the system. I hope Adam Chapman would agree with me that the most important part of this whole industry is the on site installer, Ian Rippin would you like to comment on your opinion of "remote commissioning" under the new MCS structure? https://lnkd.in/euvFdT3R

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#webinar alert! Check out the next Peer Exchange Call hosted by Jonathan Cohen and the U.S. @Department of Energy's Better Buildings Residential Network on Thursday, August 8 from 1–2:30 pm ET / 10 –11:30 am PT. TITLE: Contractor Lists & Networks – What Are Good Practices? DESCRIPTION: Residential energy-efficiency programs rely on contractors for success, but attracting, retaining, and managing contractors can be challenging. How have programs organized contractor lists and networks to provide consumers with access to those who can do the work to save energy and other benefits? How can programs effectively give small and minority contractors access to energy-efficiency projects and incentives? Tune in to this Better Buildings Residential Network peer exchange call and don’t reinvent the wheel. These webinars are held on the second and fourth Thursday of each month and are a great way to stay abreast of new research and topics for residential buildings and energy. Learn more and register at: https://lnkd.in/g7twYUWu

E3 has been working on a project that is truly the first of its kind with Salt River Project, a public utility that serves more than 2 million people in Arizona. Earlier this year, the utility published its first-ever integrated system plan, which combines resource, transmission, distribution, and customer program planning in a single process. This was a pioneering effort to do planning in an entirely new way that considers the interdependencies of each part of the system. How should system planners and regulators be thinking about this holistic way to plan? Can integrated system planning help developers anticipate grid needs and get the most out of demand-side resources? What is the role for industry stakeholders? We’ll respond to these questions in a webinar on July 29 at 12pm PT, where E3’s Arne Olson and Joe Hooker will sit down in conversation with Angie Bond-Simpson of Salt River Project. We’ll leave time for Q&A and expect the conversation to be especially informative for utilities, project developers, system planners, regulators, utility stakeholders, and environmental groups. Register here: https://lnkd.in/gpnBDFaJ

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