Advanced Work Packaging (AWP) is an industry best practice that focuses on proper and thorough front-end planning, along with the alignment of Engineering, Procurement and Construction activities and deliverables, to achieve improved project performance. Based on five years of research and analysis, the Construction Industry Institute identified AWP as an industry best practice. According to CII, “Advanced Work Packaging is the overall process flow of all the detailed work packages (CWPs, EWPs and IWPs). It is a planned, executable process that encompasses the work on an engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) project, beginning with initial planning and continuing through detailed design and construction execution.”

But how is a construction industry best practice implemented into Engineering design and Procurement execution? After almost a decade of implementation of AWP on turnkey EPC projects of all sizes, the Zachry Group has developed Engineering and Procurement implementation strategies for the success of the project without impacting the design process.