IPA’s FEL Toolbox software helps project teams overcome shortcomings by providing detailed recommendations—based on project-specific inputs—to improve a project’s FEL quality, and thus improve cost and schedule performance.

Front-End Loading (FEL) is a process by which a company translates its business and technology opportunities into capital projects. The objective of FEL is to gain a detailed understanding of the project to minimize the number of changes during later project execution phases.

This course shares Best Practices for each FEL phase and the stage-gated process, as identified through research by Independent Project Analysis (IPA). Project professionals will gain an understanding of the elements needed to drive better outcomes in safety, cost, schedule, and operational performance.

The Front-End Loading Workshop is an interactive program that teaches key members of the project team the essential knowledge and skills required to organize, plan, and execute an FEL action plan for capital projects of all sizes and types.

Front-end loading (FEL), also referred to as Front-End Engineering Design (FEED), Front End Planning (FEP), pre-project planning (PPP), and early project planning, is the process for conceptual development of projects in processing industries such as upstream oil and gas, petrochemical, natural gas refining, extractive metallurgy, waste-to ...

Front End Loading (FEL) system is a method to systemize and structure the evaluation of a business prospect by developing business ideas into working capital assets and plants. The generic project life cycle of front-end loading and decision gate consists of initiate, select, define, execute and operate. According to

2013年10月8日 · Although there is no fixed method to control and maximize the optimal decision making process in a capital projects, FEL (front-end-loading) methodology measures and increases the level of...

2015年10月25日 · These approaches include the Front End Loading (FEL) Index developed by Independent Project Analysis (IPA) and the Project Definition Rating Index (PDRI) developed by the Construction Industry Institute (CII). Both these methods have been validated using statistical methods against actual project data.

Independent Project Analysis (IPA), a global consultancy in project evaluation and project system benchmarking, defines FEL as “the process by which a company develops a detailed definition of a project that was initiated to enable the company to meet its business objectives” (Weijde 2008).

In 1992, IPA studied contractors’ role in Front-End Loading (FEL) and concluded that owner leadership during FEL is a key driver of project success. In 2002, IPA studied project competencies and found distinct cost and schedule advantages to owners retaining certain competencies in-house. What Is a Core Competency?