General Contracting

The general contract from RVP Plus is the organization of construction production of objects that demand a serious engineering approach, coordination of work, dozens of professionals of various construction specialties.

What is general contracting? What are the types of general contracting? Let’s try to answer these questions. Any amount of work on construction and reconstruction requires high professionalism and almost “military-style” organization of labor. Any participant in the construction should be aware that contracting is primarily RISKS.

Estimation, distribution and minimization these risks is the most important task of all participants in the construction.

Unfortunately, this capitalized truth of the builder, known since time immemorial, is often forgotten and lost in the pursuit of indicators (money and time), but as punishment for it, construction participants lose both. Therefore, the key task of the customer is the right choice of the general contractor: professional, coordinated, who has a positive experience of performing similar objects and has real, positive feedback from other customers.

As a rule, a large amount of various specialized works on capital construction and / or reconstruction requires the participation of several organizations that conduct installation and adjustment in their direction. Therefore, we present to you typical schemes of general contracts:

1) General contract (contractor) – the general contractor enters into a contract for the general contract, but does not conduct construction work on its own. As a rule, such a company can operate according to two schemes:

A) General contractor – purchases basic equipment, possibly materials (or part of them) and distributes finances to pay for the work of subcontractors, but does not carry out operational management of the construction site, delegating these functions to one of the subcontractors (group of subcontractors), organization or person implements Technical supervision. This form of work is adopted as a system in many general contractors that perform their main function (work with finance). They first finance the facility in full or in part, allowing the customer not to freeze their money to finance the facility, or conduct tenders for the purchase of the customer and monitor the progress of construction work.
In fact, the customer has made the first payment of 5-15%, the balance is paid after the construction is completed or even after the commissioning of the facility. As a rule, such a scheme of general contracts is very common in Europe, but it usually involves bank capital. This scheme is most often offered by the customer’s bank, which thus minimizes all the risks associated with the construction of the facility.

B) In addition to the purchase of major equipment and materials, General contractor HAS ITS OWN ENGINEERING AND TECHNICAL STRUCTURE and holds operational management directly at the construction site.

2) General contractor (general construction) is a company that execute works by its own forces only in several directions (usually iron, concrete, stone structures and sometimes earthworks in case of having own special equipment). In case of having specialists (in staff or involved), interior engineering networks (water, sewer, electricity, and ventilation) can be performed. In such type of general contracting, subcontractors are involved for highly specialized work, such as installation and adjustment of external engineering networks of boiler, electrical substation, and gas facilities. This General Contract is mainly typical for objects of civil construction: residential and administrative buildings. 90% of housing construction is implemented like this.

3) General Contracting (specialized) is when the company-General Contractor has a fleet of special equipment, facilities and production of individual special goods and a large staff of engineers and technical workers in the industrial engineering department intended for specialists of narrow profile (example: installation of the equipment for boiler, sewage treatment plants, chemical, metallurgical, food, and other industries).

This sort of general contracting is typical for specialized companies, where the workload is high enough and the timing of contracts amounts to several years (construction of roads, main pipelines, and power transmission lines of a national scale). Therefore, sub-contractors are involved at large volumes of production, they are usually “colleagues and competitors”, similar highly specialized company.

Private Company “RVP PLUS” is considered to be a General Contractor of the third type. Our specialty:

WATER – complex facilities of water treatment: filter stations, water conditioning and purification facilities, wastewater treatment plants, sewage-pumping stations and pumping stations of 1-3 lifting.

HEAT – objects of heat generation and heat distribution: high power boilers, central heating units, individual heating units, and boilers.

ELECTRICITY – objects of electrical energy distribution and transformation, substations 6-35 kW, cogeneration plants, distribution systems, lighting.

Experience of dozens of implemented projects And the professional staff of employees allow us to solve the most complex engineering problems.

We will be glad to meet you.

Director of PE ‘Remvodplast Plus’
Kazmirsky Roman Yurievich