[CAB] Startup

The main part of the project, to which the financial forecasts begin to apply, is the Startup phase leading on to rollout.

Startup is planned for the first year of the plan (2017) and will include the simultaneous development of three pilot projects and the PHC training facility.

[CAA-A] Set up Training School

The PHC principles are protected by IP law and are implemented using a system that is easily scalable. The venture is started using a core team of existing PHC consultants and a first wave of 60 PHC candidates is trained intensively during the first 6 months of operation on the pilot projects.

All are immediately deployed on the first project that buys into the service. All are paid for by the venture, some are charged to the project to a loose formula related to the size of the project.

Some of the compliment of 60 will be real Project Controls engineers (fully experienced expats that use PHC principles) the rest will be promising local graduates having graduated in a project management or controls related discipline.

Those who are not deemed chargeable to the project will be working on the project while training, for free. The project provides a source of project information that they can use for training. The project owner will be aware of this and will be fully supportive. The idea is that the PHC methodology for enhancing project transparency and communication, as it is essentially non-interfering with project execution, can be deployed to whatever extent the project wants.

The first project takes advantage of the abundance of available help, even though it is 'novice' help during the first few months of training. As more projects are achieved the same principle is carried on as further gradual intake of students tracks the increasing number of those that become chargeable.

Eventually the student intake levels out as the achievement of new projects reaches equilibrium. The financial model is based on PHC deployment alone, starting with the Independent Project Review, and is yet to be adjusted to incorporate straight sales of training services, which will tend to reduce the cash injection needed and bring the break even point forward.

[CAA-B] Pilot Projects

Pilot projects are selected from a number of candidate projects offered by companies in the Energy Industries during the Feasibility Study phase.

The plan for trial projects involves one for each of the categories we identify for forecasting purposes. Though the actual size of projects undertaken and the number of PHC staff appointed to them will vary greatly.