At Drees & Sommer, EPCM (Engineering, Procurement and Construction Management) represents advanced general planning. We combine all our planning, consultancy and management services to offer comprehensive support for your project. 

The methods used by our experts are both proven and innovative, incorporating such approaches as lean management, modularization and digitalization (including BIM), to reduce complexity, minimize interfaces and simplify coordination. This allows for efficient and cost-effective implementation of your construction and real-estate projects. 

Many companies in the real-estate, infrastructure and industrial sectors are facing enormous challenges. In addition to issues that currently affect multiple industries, such as a shortage of skilled workers, the problems they encounter include inadequate planning and a lack of coordination, in particular, as well as difficulties in the tendering process for projects.  

It is precisely these obstacles that are addressed by EPCM, which also minimizes interfaces and maximizes transparency, to simplify coordination of complex projects:

By modularizing a building design, we can significantly reduce the complexity involved in the planning and construction process, and also increase the quality of the planning and execution. This saves on costs, time and resources, without compromising on individual expectations and the flexibility of the property concerned.  

By using Building Information Modeling (BIM) and digital planning, we can ensure that planning is consistent and coordinated in quality. This is a core requirement for every successful construction project. Other significant aspects of the BIM method are the transparency of the planning process, with customer involvement, and better mutual understanding within the project team. Transfer points to executing companies without data discontinuity, and early integration of such points will result in a more tightly interlocked planning and construction process and make it much leaner overall.  

The Lean approach is a fundamental way of aiming to avoid waste and establish maximum transparency and learning benefits. We think about the processes from a goal-oriented perspective, which significantly increases the speed of all workflows. We handle our projects consistently in accordance with the Lean approach. In particular, this includes overall control and integration of all the main parties involved and the entire schedule in the planning and construction process.