JMK Engineering Inc.

Expertise

JMK Engineering Inc. has over 10 years experience working internationally with successful projects in:

Canada
- Nova Scotia
- Newfoundland and Labrador
- New Brunswick
- Ontario
- Alberta
- British Columbia
USA
- Washington
- Montana
- Massachusetts
- Colorado
- Kansas
- Arizona
- California
Peru
Chile

JMK Engineering has the expertise to help you through all stages of your project cycle:

Initial problem identification
Design process
Final commissioning
Hand over of the project
Operations

Our focus is on helping you place a box around complex project objectives, to be able to source the experts in the specific fields, and manage the tasks to ensure that you receive the highest value project upon completion, satisfying all stakeholders involved in the project.

From a single building power system analysis to a multi-million dollar whole power plant hydro projects, JMK Engineering has worked on projects varying in size and complexity.

Quality Assurance

Quality Assurance for any project starts very early in the process. The first step is to establish the goals and values for the project, which will hold the weight of the rest of the project management and engineering process through all decision-making.

Some of the questions that will be answered at this stage are:

What will establish a successful project?
What order do these priorities fall: Cost, Reliability, Schedule?
What is the targeted life span for the finished project, system, etc?
What is more important upfront cost or life cycle cost?

With these questions answered - even before the preliminary budget is developed - the project team can deliver a project that everyone can be happy with in the end.

Project Documentation Review

In order to ensure that project requirements are being met, we review:

RFPs
RFP submittals
Design specifications

We can more easily help you to your successful project completion if we are engaged in the process early.

Design Review

We work as an independent reviewer to help you ensure that your proposed design will meet all the RFP requirements, and that your project will be successful upon completion.

Design review:
- Does the design meet the scope requirements?
- Is the proposed design adequate?
- Does the proposed design meet the company objectives for quality, uptime, short and long term economics, etc?
Review the project documentation from the beginning to end
- RFP review (Are you saying what you want to say?)
- Review submittals (Are they telling you what you think they are?)
- Design (Are they giving you what they said they would?)
- Construction (Is it meeting the design?)
- Testing /Commissioning (Will the finished process meet the initial goals?)
The entire process is not only about double checking all the finer details, but it's about looking ahead to make sure that the final design will meet all the original goals - or the reason the project got underway.

Project Management

Project Management - and JMK Engineering's role - starts after the stakeholder goals have been developed. With these goals and project values in place, a project execution plan can be developed, acting as a baseline for the project. This plan will include: schedules, costs, and other metrics that will be measured throughout the project.

If you have internal processes that are used for reporting project process, these will be included in the execution plan. If not, we will be happy to provide suggestions that are in line with the size of your project.

Design and Integration

The Design and Integration of the project is where most of the work, time, and costs lie. Decisions made during this stage of the process will not only affect the capital cost of the project, but typically - and more importantly - the operational cost of the project. JMK Engineering can provide a full support through in-house talent and strategic partners for a wide variety of project sizes and types. On a larger project, we would recommend looking at the large multinational engineering companies. In these cases, we will provide owners engineering support where we will interface with the main design team on a day-to-day basis, and provide integration support for any areas that are not covered in the prime contract.

With this model, you will get the best value for the project by leveraging the capacity of a large company, while still maintaining control of the outcome and project success that you would have with a smaller company.

Our 5 Stage Process

JMK Engineering employs a five stage process for all our projects, with the last two phases being construction support and commissioning.

The first three phases are specifically targeted around the project design and integration into the existing systems and business processes.

Phase 1 - Project Development

The first phase of the project is dedicated to the project development and includes deciding on the scope of the overall project, metrics of success (budget, schedule, operational metrics, etc) and execution plan.

JMK Engineering's input at this phase of the project is typically in an advisory role, we help our clients understand the metrics of the project without preconceived anchors and will assist in the procurement of the necessary talent and major equipment items by reviewing RFPs, submittals, etc.

Phase 2 - Schematic Design

In the second phase of the project we take was developed in the project development portion and start the schematic design. Here the high level documents and drawings are developed. When complete we check back with our client to ensure that we are meeting all the metrics of sucess that were outlined in the previous phase, and make any corrections that are needed.

As we go through the phase process, the number of decisions become fewer because all the hard thinking and buy in was done in the first phase. At the same time the cost associated with change increases dramatically as it can ripple up the chain.

Phase 3 - Detailed Design

This is the final design stage of the process, and involves only the execution documentation. All of the design and engineering was completed in the previous two phases, and now we are developing the documentation and software to implement that design.

When the detailed design is complete and approved by the client it can be executed by the necessary contractors and when construction is complete JMK Engineering will assist with the commissioning process to ensure that the project has met all the metrics as laid out in phase 1.

Commissioning

When the project areas up to this point have been properly executed, commissioning is the easiest part of the project.

When you engage JMK Engineering to assist with the commissioning of the final project, we will review the project goals and requirements mapped out in the initial project design, review the engineering design documentation, and design a test procedure that will test that all goals have been reached.

We work closely with management and operations to test the normal and foreseeable abnormal operations of the installation. The goal of commissioning is not only to ensure that the system works as intended, but to try and break the system with foreseeable configurations to ensure that the system behaves in a predictable, and repeatable manner. If one of these abnormal situations happen during production, we can make sure you have the least amount of down time as possible.

Ensuring the system operates as intended

Testing is ensuring that part of the process works. It comes first and includes a lot of preliminary steps, from testing individual parts of the system in isolation to commissioning the system as a whole.

When the previous project areas have been executed properly, commissioning is the easiest part of the project.

For JMK Engineering, commissioning is:

developing tests and procedures to try and break the process within normal and out-of-normal procedures.

When the system breaks in “normal” tests, fixes must be made. For the out-of-normal failures, more has to be determined with the following questions:

Is this is a true out-of-normal failure? If so, this should be noted but no changes made.
Is there is a possibility that this is a possible configuration? If so, this can be addressed.

We provide commissioning services in:

Defining the scope for commissioning
Reviewing checkout and testing procedures
Developing commissioning plan and proper documentation
Witnessing the commissioning process on-site to ensure that it is executed in a predictable manner