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Project Orientation and Staffing
A good PMP includes a project organization chart and team directory showing key per-
sonnel on the CHP team. The chart illustrates project staff roles and lines of communica-
tion. A client team directory should be included along with the kick-off meeting minutes.

Project Schedule
The project schedule should have sufficient detail to ensure that the desired schedule is
attainable. The project schedule should include a description of each task, a scheduled
start and completion times for each task, the staff to accomplish the work, and the esti-
mated time to perform the task. The schedule should also show the interrelationship
between tasks. Milestones are key items which can be used to verify the project is on
schedule. These milestones may be highlighted to track major deliverables such as pro-
gramming, schematic design, design development, and working drawings (construc-
tion documents) submittals, as well as the scheduled delivery dates. To be effective, all
members of the design team as well as the owner-operator should be kept current on
the project management plan and progress toward completion.

Communication
Open, clear communication throughout the entire project is critical. Communication
procedures should be established at the kick-off meeting to govern the transfer of infor-
mation between all project team members. Periodic meetings between the owner and/
or his or her project manager, facilities operations and maintenance staff, and the CHP
design team will help ensure that the project stays on track, meeting the goals and
expectations established at the start of the project.

Quality Control
Quality control is a system or process that helps ensure that standards are followed. In
the case of engineering design, quality control includes reviewing drawings, specifica-
tions, and calculations for accuracy, proper coordination, completeness, constructability,
and to help ensure that ideas are communicated effectively to the construction contractor.
Quality control begins on the first day of the project and continues past the final accep-
tance of the work. The most cost-effective quality control efforts are exerted during
milestone reviews. Aside from the daily engineering coordination procedures, the CHP
design team should conduct at least two additional quality control checks: a peer review
by senior company professionals not directly involved with the project, and a detailed
coordination check of the drawings and specifications.

Programming
Programming defines project requirements and is the first critical step of the design
process that establishes most of the key criteria. However, ideally as outlined above,
most of the key CHP decisions are determined in a well-thought-out feasibility study as
discussed in Chap. 8, and the programming phase is a basic verification of the CHP
system concept, prime mover selection, proposed heat recovery unit, planned thermal
uses, emission requirements, required emission controls, plant equipment controls,
electrical interconnection requirements, fuel supply, concept site layout, and expected
operating strategies. If a study was not completed, prior to the start of the design effort,
then the previous items listed will need to be developed as part of the programming
effort. The programming effort should include a review of all applicable as-built drawings