Energy and Water
FBF group provides a broad range of local Engineering and technical advisory services across the Transportation, Water, Energy, medical, and Real Estate sectors, and with a specific focus in our Key Countries. Whatever the size of your project, we will help you to achieve your goals, by combining profound local market knowledge and proven competence. Working closely together and often side-by-side, our experts are usually in easy reach of your operations, thanks to our extensive local office network. The result: long lasting relationships that you can rely on year-after-year.
Whether you’re looking for sharp, independent advice to inform your strategy, or you need a full scope implementation partner for a new plant, you can depend on FBF. We deliver expert-led management consulting and engineering services across the full value chain. Trusted as a partner by the global energy sector, we bring deep insight and experience, enabling your project to perform on time, on scope and on budget – and working to the highest safety standards.
Hydropower
Climate change and climate variability present unique challenges in generating renewable energy, profitably. Technological innovation in hydropower is breaking new ground in responding to these challenges. FBF is at the forefront of such developments.
Whether you need independent technical advice or a project lifecycle partner, our comprehensive in-house expertise allows us to provide the exact services you need to help identify, realise and preserve your investments in hydropower.
We work closely with you, bringing best practice to your project.
Large-scale project execution is at our core and we’ll enable you to lower your costs and manage your risks by providing the exact services required —on time, on budget and on scope.
Renewable Energy
100
%
Increase in Global Energy Demand
by 2050
Global energy demand is set to increase 100% by 2050. Maintaining energy security and creating a low carbon future are key challenges and renewable energy plays a vital, strategic role in meeting our energy needs, now and in the future.
Whatever independent technical advice you require, our expertise in developing efficient renewable energy solutions allows us to provide the exact services you need, at all stages of the project lifecycle, to help identify, realise and preserve your investments in renewable energy.
We will work closely with you, bringing best practice to your project gained from hands-on involvement in many hundreds of projects worldwide - in bioenergy, waste-to-energy, wind power, solar power and geothermal energy —and always with a full lifecycle understanding.
Project execution is at our core. We will help you to achieve your productivity and profitability targets —delivering on time, on budget and on scope.
Engineering Services
FBF provides a high level of engineering and construction services to various market segments:
Oil and Gas
Chemical Industry
Petrochemicals
Food Processing
Micro-electronics
Pharmaceutical
Mineral Processing
Process Sewage Treatment Systems
Water Treatment
Water Supply
Drainage Engineering
Other industries
Our extensive process expertise and project management skills are the basis of our excellence in providing quality services and products in an innovative manner. To complement this, we offer the advantages of multi-lingual staff, cultural adaptability and world class professionals at cost effective rates. We have a proven record in tailoring project budget and financing for the benefit of the client.
Feasibility Study
Your project needs to start on the right foot, with a solid base prepared for your investment decisions. Our feasibility study services will help give your project a great start, with services from pre-feasibility and feasibility studies through to conceptual engineering and preliminary design.
The scope of our feasibility study services can include:
Assessment of the technical, economic, environmental and social viability of a proposed project, including a comparison of alternatives
Establishment of a preliminary design of the chosen solutions, including the identification and analysis of the main project parameters with the elaboration of the principal constructive solutions of the engineering project
Technical Consulting Services
Whatever your project needs, we provide a full range of engineering services, ensuring that your project is delivered on scope, time, quality and cost.
We offer a wide breadth of technical consulting services to enhance your project from development, through to implementation and operation. Examples of our technical consulting services include:
Technical assistance in design, design review, engineering assistance, O&M, construction, process optimization, master planning, planning studies and spatial planning
Expert opinion services, identification and evaluation of technical alternatives, technical compliance checks, risk assessments, preparation of design criteria for tender specification, safety and availability assessments, decommissioning studies, optimization of operations and maintenance
Various consulting and engineering services during the commercial operation of the facility including: emissions testing, performance testing, condition monitoring, improvement programmers (for comprehensive performance, operations, energy and materials efficiency), audits, studies, other technical consulting services for operating facilities, etc.
Environmental and social studies: EIA, SIA, environmental due diligence, carbon and water footprint calculations, ecological surveys, soil studies, groundwater studies, end-use planning, Contaminant investigations, Environmental Health & Safety (EHS) management, etc.
Lender's Engineer
As a lender for a project, you want peace of mind from a trusted technical partner. As the Lender’s Engineer we can monitor and review the performance and obligations of other project contractors on scope, time, quality and cost, on your behalf.
Our Lender’s Engineer services can include reports to financiers verifying the progress of the works and achievement of milestones, checking achieved test results, and identifying any critical issues.
Owner’s Engineer
As an Owner’s Engineer, we monitor, review and supervise the performance and obligations of other project contractors on scope, time, quality and cost, on your behalf.
Our Owner’s Engineer Services can include tender specification, conceptual design, design review and approval, assistance in tendering and contracting, site supervision, assistance during construction, commissioning, testing and hand-over, and assistance during the warranty period.
Basic & Detailed Engineering
Whether you are looking for preliminary design or support with your engineering documentation (including permit applications and licensing), our basic and detailed services will bring our wide breadth of expertise to your project.
Our basic engineering services act as preparation for detailed engineering and can consist of preliminary design and specifications for an installation or facility. To help your project development, our basic technical design and specifications range from develop investment estimate through permit applications to licensing.
The scope of our basic engineering services can include:
Required design of process, mechanical, electrical, automation, HVAC and civil engineering disciplines, technical specifications for the preparation for the detailed engineering
Preparation of tender documents
Participation in technical and/or procurement negotiations
When you have approval for your project, this basic engineering can be developed into our detailed engineering services. Our expertise can provide specifications, implementation drawings, comments to vendor’s documents and all other related documents which define the engineering aspects for construction, erection, commissioning and start-up for your project, right up until implementation.