The "New Model of General Contracting (EPC) of Construction Projects" of the 2020 China Coatings Industry Summit Smart Factory Sub-forum named by Zhenghe Engineering was a complete success

From October 22nd to 23rd, the 2020 China Coatings Industry Summit with the theme of "Connecting the Future, Value for Win" was successfully held at Shangri-La Hotel, Guangzhou. This summit aims to promote industrial quality change, efficiency change, power change, etc. under the general trend of new round of digital transformation and upgrading of the coating industry, promote information flow to lead the flow of technology, capital, talent and materials, accelerate the agglomeration and integration of industrial resources, promote the optimal allocation of resources, coordinate the efficient operation of the industry, use digital technology, improve the efficiency of the coating industry, empower the upstream and downstream of China's coatings industry to carry out industrial transformation and upgrading and industrial ecological construction, create value and achieve a win-win situation!

Compared with the traditional contracting method, the EPC general contractor is responsible for the implementation process of the entire project, and no longer constructs the project as a separate subcontractor, which is conducive to the overall planning and resource coordination of the entire project. It can maximize the advantages of all parties involved in engineering project management and achieve the goals of engineering project management.

At present, the EPC model is becoming an important direction for the development of the national construction industry, in the face of important opportunities under the new situation, Zhenghe Engineering as a professional excellent team of chemical and petrochemical pharmaceutical engineering (design) whole process solutions, to build a new concept of high-quality industrial buildings engineering design platform, this titled 2020 China Coatings Industry Summit Smart Factory Sub-forum "Construction Project Engineering General Contracting (EPC) New Model" special session, to help promote the high-quality development of enterprises, a complete success!

The "Smart Factory Sub-forum" is an important link and content at the summit, and an important theme to comprehensively promote the digitalization and fine management and application of the coating industry. At the "Smart Factory Sub-forum" on the morning of October 23, 2020, Zhenghe Engineering joined hands with Deta, Langling and other intelligent manufacturing enterprises to interpret and analyze a number of hot topics in the industry, such as new engineering construction model (EPC), new design standards for fine chemical enterprises, and intelligent manufacturing innovation and development, providing enterprises with new ideas for innovation and development.

Li Changhuan: EPC full-function delivery mode of construction project engineering

At the meeting, Li Changhuan, chairman of Guangdong Zhenghe Engineering Co., Ltd., shared the common contracting methods of project general contracting, the analysis of project general contracting methods and pros and cons, several stages of project general contracting methods, relevant policies to promote the development of project general contracting, and the main issues of project general contracting development.

Li Changhuan said that general contracting refers to the whole process or several stages of project survey, design, procurement, construction and trial operation of the project under the entrustment of the owner. The main methods of general contracting of projects include general contracting of design and procurement (EPC), turnkey project general contracting (LSTK), general contracting of design and construction projects (DB), general contracting of design and procurement (EP), and general contracting of procurement and construction (PC).

For the owner, if the EPC, LSTK and DB mode are used, the owner only needs to sign a contract with a general contractor, if the EP, PC mode, the owner only needs to sign a contract with two contractors, the number of contractors is small, and the contract relationship is simple, the owner only needs to be responsible for the management and control of the whole, principles, goals, and control, reducing the time and cost of coordination.

The advantages of the EPC method mainly have four aspects: 1. The engineering design of the project is optimized through the design competition generated by the EPC bidders providing the preliminary design documents prepared by themselves, thereby greatly saving the project investment, and greatly or even completely avoiding the large-scale economic negotiation and claims caused by design changes, which makes the total investment of the project extremely fixed; 2. Because the engineering design + procurement + construction simplifies the contradiction of external management and coordination of the three parties, the construction period of the project is relatively fixed; 3. Make the management of the owner in the construction stage of the project greatly simplified, convenient and effective; The EPC model generally reflects the great advantages; 4. Ensure safety, quality, progress, and premium control.

There are two main disadvantages of the project general contracting method: 1. The owner mainly supervises the contractor through the general contracting contract, and the degree of participation in the project implementation process is low, and the overall control is also reduced, so the ability of the general contractor selected by the owner directly determines the quality of the project; 2. The contractor bears more project risks in the project general contracting mode, and if the general contractor does not manage properly in project management and project performance, it may bring greater losses.

Li Changhuan pointed out that the project general contracting model is an inevitable trend in the development of the construction industry. Yu, former Minister of Construction, once said: In construction projects involving production process design, general contracting of projects led by design should be strongly advocated. First, the advantages of project general contracting over traditional contracting methods are obvious, in order to achieve scientific decision-making and avoid risks, more and more owners take the initiative to abandon the original independent management mode, which will form a greater market demand for the form of project general contracting services; Second, more and more construction enterprises in China participate in the competition in the international construction market, and engineering general contracting is the mainstream mode of project management of international engineering enterprises, so improving the general contracting capacity of engineering is also an urgent need of China's construction enterprises; Third, in recent years, relevant departments in China have gradually increased the promotion of the project general contracting model, encouraging design enterprises and construction enterprises to actively undertake engineering general contracting projects.

From a series of documents promulgated by the state, we can see several changes in China's promotion of project general contracting business: first, from encouraging the establishment of project contracting companies to cultivating project general contracting and project management enterprises; The second is the transformation from the strict management of issuing qualifications and qualification licenses to creating a relatively relaxed environment; Third, from the design unit cannot have jurisdiction over the construction team, and cannot jointly bid with the construction team for general contracting projects, to the possibility of forming a consortium to bid; The fourth is the transformation from the design unit cannot have jurisdiction over the construction team and cannot jointly bid for general contracting projects with the construction team to the possibility of forming a consortium for bidding.

After years of development, some design units and construction enterprises in China have achieved the success of EPC projects and accumulated a lot of experience. However, there are still some shortcomings in vigorously promoting the EPC model, mainly due to the following aspects: the legal and regulatory system is not perfect; The parallel contracting mode leads to low management ability of enterprise general contracting; Enterprises lack corresponding management systems and talents; Project financing is difficult and expensive.

Li Changhuan said that the project general contracting model is increasingly favored by enterprises, and it has been applied to a certain extent in the fields of engineering construction such as chemical industry, petrochemical, metallurgy, and building materials. At the same time, its vigorous promotion requires the joint efforts of relevant departments, owners and design (general contracting) enterprises, first of all, the main industry gradually changes the concept, deeply understands the project general contracting model, and changes the traditional contracting mode and consumption habits; In terms of general contracting enterprises, through connotation upgrading and extension development, gradually improve the ability to undertake EPC projects, and multiply the value of their engineering projects, in order to achieve a win-win situation for all parties.

Zeng Tianying: Interpretation and analysis of the fire protection standard GB51283-2020 for engineering design of fine chemical enterprises

Zeng Tianying, deputy general manager of Guangdong Zhenghe Engineering Co., Ltd., delivered a wonderful speech on "Interpretation and Analysis of Engineering Design Fire Protection Standard GB51283-2020 for Fine Chemical Enterprises".

GB51283-2020 was officially released in April this year and implemented from October 1, 2020. Zeng Tianying analyzed and explained the "Fire Protection Standard for Engineering Design of Fine Chemical Enterprises" GB51283-2020 from four aspects: the background and basis of preparation, the scope of application, the comparison of fire spacing requirements, and the main clauses affecting the design.

He pointed out that in most cases, the "Petrochemical Enterprise Design Fire Protection Standard" GB 50160-2008 is stricter than the "Engineering Design Fire Protection Standard for Fine Chemical Enterprises" GB 51283, and the "Engineering Design Fire Protection Standard for Fine Chemical Enterprises" GB 51283-2020 is stricter than the "Building Design Fire Protection Code" GB 50016-2014, but the fire spacing requirements for tank farms are exceptions. The applicable specifications of the project should actively communicate with the local emergency management department and the local project approval department, and submit the safety pre-assessment report in a timely manner for review to minimize the risk of project rework. The "Refinement Standard" puts forward some specific requirements for the internal design of the workshop, which will have some impact on daily operation and require the owner to change his thinking habits.

Deta Color Lingbing: Helping the coating industry realize color management data intelligence

At the meeting, Ling Bing introduced the different applications of Datacolor color management solutions in the coating industry segment, including engineering coating applications, paint retail store applications, and laboratory data support. Taking multicolor coatings as an example, in 2019, Datacolor launched a SPECTRAVISION color measurement tool for multicolor coatings. This color measurement tool provides stable, repeatable color measurements.

In the product area, she focused on ColorReader – the color stylus. Designed, manufactured and powered by Datacolor, this product has the highest measurement accuracy of its kind on the market, allowing customers to match the desired color in the most popular paint brands, color standards, custom color databases, allowing customers to provide the best performing products on a lower budget, ideal for paint engineering agents, interior designers and sales representatives.

Langling Intelligent Xu Forest: intelligent production system for coating industry

Xu Lin, project manager of Guangdong Langling Intelligent Equipment Co., Ltd., elaborated on the intelligent upgrading of the coating industry "Intelligent Production System of the Coating Industry".  

Xu Lin said in his speech that Langling's "intelligent production system for the coating industry" is a one-stop whole plant production solution committed to accelerating the transformation and upgrading of the coating industry. The project is composed of modules such as raw material storage, feeding, dispersed grinding, filling, and finished product inventory, which realizes the transformation and upgrading requirements such as dust-free feeding, accurate metering and feeding, and quality traceability.

The system engineering production line layout is centralized, the degree of de-labor is high, easy to produce management, time-saving, labor-saving, energy-saving, environmental protection, with "digital, standardized, intelligent" smart factory production standards, and can provide personalized tailor-made configuration according to the actual needs of customer technology and output, suitable for large-scale mass production, and has achieved a qualitative leap in enterprise transformation and upgrading, and broad-energy production increase. It has eliminated a series of industry pain points such as "large feeding measurement error, high energy consumption, large wear, efficiency cannot keep up, and environmental protection is not up to standard".

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The interactive forum of "Smart Factory Sub-forum" was chaired by Li Changhuan, chairman of Guangdong Zhenghe Engineering Co., Ltd., Zeng Tianying, deputy general manager of Guangdong Zhenghe Engineering Co., Ltd., Lu Ming, chairman of Guangdong Kedi New Material Technology Co., Ltd., Ling Bing, color technology manager (coatings and plastics) of Deta Color Commerce (Shanghai) Co., Ltd., Lu Ning, COO of Buy Plastics, Zhang Jianguang, former chief engineer of Guangdong Guangye Huanqiu Engineering Co., Ltd., and Dr. Yin Wu, general manager of Shenzhen Ruihaizhi Electronic Technology Co., Ltd.

Does the implementation of EPC general contracting mode in factory construction increase or save investment for the owner? What aspects or links can best save costs?In this regard, Zhang Jianguang, former chief engineer of Guangdong Guangye Huanqiu Engineering Company, said that in the traditional contracting mode, it is often organized and managed by the owner himself, and the contract is finally signed with the relevant unit by means of bidding and bidding, and the scope of the project is determined according to the relevant contract, and the respective rights and obligations are finally established. This makes this traditional parallel contracting mode separate from each other, objectively consider the problem from their own standpoint, and it is easy to have mutual contradictions, and it is difficult to guarantee the investment, progress and quality of the project.

Guangye Global Engineering began to do EPC general contracting has been 20 years, from our past general contracting project experience, the concept of EPC model first makes the investment cost fixed, and then to talk about saving investment, in order to control the cost must be from the source of design, the design stage in the total investment saving link accounted for 70-85%, so for the owner, choosing a contractor team with rich industry experience and management experience is the most critical, and is the first choice to choose contractors led by engineering design. From the EPC project model, it is simply said that the owner only needs to do three things: correctly understand the EPC, "Do it or not?" ”； Selection of general contractors; Payment for the works.

Talking about the core key technical issues of intelligent manufacturing and the problems encountered in the industrialization of intelligent manufacturing in the coating industry,Yin Wu, general manager of Shenzhen Ruihaizhi Electronic Technology Company, said that the company has been involved in artificial intelligence, Internet of Things and communication technology projects, system technology and experience, especially in industrial mechanical and electrical manufacturing, government public facilities and agriculture has more performance, but the chemical industry intelligence and informatization lags behind other industries, so in recent years to focus on the field of chemical coatings, through project contact with these enterprises to understand, the current industry is still a problem of intelligent manufacturing understanding and action, not technical problems, Of course, the field of chemical coatings has its particularities, which will hinder the process of intelligent manufacturing industrialization in the industry, but through the preferential policies and guidance given by institutions at the national to local industry associations and other levels in recent years, actively promote the work forward, I believe that the chemical industry, especially in the field of coatings, will also accelerate the process of intelligent manufacturing industrialization, as long as these enterprises have a consensus with us, I believe that the spring of intelligent manufacturing in the chemical coating industry is not far away.

When it comes to the original intention of choosing automated or intelligent systems and equipment，Lu Ming, chairman of Kedi New Material Technology Company, said that from the actual experience of Kedi factory, color paste is a small batch and many varieties of industry, it is difficult to do automation, first of all, there must be batch, Kodi color adopts a fully automatic color paste production line, can achieve intelligent production, equipped with more than 60 new high-efficiency grinding equipment, there are 6 automated production lines, can be remotely controlled from the central control room, no washing machine, no washing tank, reduce waste water and waste. The production process adopts PLC control from feeding to finished products, and the additives, resins, and powders are all automatically weighed and measured, reaching the leading level of the domestic color paste industry. The Anhui Mingguang factory currently under construction hopes to go further and build it into an ideal smart factory model.

In addition, Lu Ming also said that previously, the Panyu factory of Kedi Color was an intermittent production method, which was simple and flexible, but the batch was too small, and it was easy to fluctuate between batches, and for the "stability overriding all" color paste industry, this production method was not advisable for the long-term development of the enterprise. It is understood that the Yingde factory was designed by Lu Zonghe team for more than two years, Lu Ming, who came from the design institute, knows the importance of the process, and constantly optimizes the process during the period, and now the new Yingde factory has achieved mass production, compared with the previous Panyu factory A batch can only produce more than one ton, has increased to more than ten tons, can greatly reduce the difference between pigment batches, which is a huge leap for Kodi color.

What color/recipe data does the smart factory ERP system generally capture?In this regard, Ling Bing, color technology manager of Deta Color Trading (Shanghai) Company, said that color is an essential data, and if you do professional color, it involves more critical and core parts, but the color management system we provide, it may need to be connected with different systems. This system meets the data captured by the customer, and needs to provide data to connect with the customer. Deta has a lot of experience with customers. Basically, in the world, the share of desktop or color matching systems is more than 70%, and in China, the automation system is at the forefront of the world. When it comes to recipes, it can be customized according to the customer's ERP system and capture some color data, so Deta's understanding of color and customer color management may also be deeper, and will provide better solutions to customers.

Domestic automation is at the forefront, and we also hope to help customers in it, according to the customer's ERP system, do some customized color solutions. From the field of coatings alone, the color management system involves a wide range, from high-end to low-end, full coverage, at present, in Europe and the United States, the personalized choice of color has been popularized, but from the domestic market segmentation still needs a lot of time to dig. From the market feedback in recent years, with the development of the coating industry year by year, some small and medium-sized coating companies are also paying more and more attention to the accuracy of color, and it is imperative that a cost-effective color detection instrument can solve the urgent needs of these customer groups.

Aimed at small and medium-sized paint retail and processing companies, Deta Color has designed the Datacolor200's compact design and built-in spare parts drawer and service indicators to create a good inspection environment, and the combination of sphere geometry and automatic gloss detection ensures color measurement of flat, glossy and textured samples for perfect color formulation.

What is the impact of the implementation of fine standards on coating companies, new construction and transformation enterprises?. In this regard, Zeng Tianying said that newly built and transformed enterprises may need to replace labor with more machines in the production process, which may be the biggest impact on them by the implementation of the "Engineering Design Fire Protection Standard for Fine Chemical Enterprises" GB51283-2020.

The low intrinsic safety level of fine chemical enterprises and the frequent occurrence of accidents are related to the lack of specially applicable laws and regulations in the field of fine chemicals in China. The promulgation of the "Fire Protection Standard for Engineering Design of Fine Chemical Enterprises" (GB 51283-2020) has made the adoption standards in the process of engineering fire protection design of fine chemical enterprises have a standard that can be relied upon. It will further standardize the engineering design of fine chemical enterprises, ensure personal and property safety, and promote the healthy and sustainable development of the industry. Secondly, this standard really corresponds to the fine chemical industry more accurately, and clarifies the guidelines for engineering design, construction and acceptance for the construction and production transformation of future projects, and also plays a substantial role in saving land and investment for the construction party in a practical sense.

When it comes to whether the renovated enterprise is suitable for EPCIn the first half of this year, Buy Chemicals and Plastics cooperated with McKinsey to investigate the production and operation of China's coatings and chemical companies before and after the epidemic, and found that from last year to this year, all coating companies, including some traders and distributors, exceeded 3,000. Therefore, when we propose EPC, fireproof coating standards, some companies still want to move forward, how to implement, in this regard, Lu Ning said that some enterprises for the old reform and meet the requirements of the new standard, or eager to implement. The problem with the concentration of these enterprises is that the scale is not very large, but the products are relatively distinctive. They are willing to provide better production equipment and research and development capabilities for high value-added possibilities. Such companies are also willing to delve into research and are eager to transform traditional production projects.

The summit is hosted by Buy Chemical and Plastics and Huizheng Information, co-hosted by HC Chemical Network and HC Paint Network, specially supported by Guangdong Jinbaoli Chemical Technology Equipment Co., Ltd., supported by the dinner of Guangdong Jinzong Machinery Co., Ltd., supported by the smart factory sub-forum of Guangdong Zhenghe Engineering Co., Ltd., and specially guided by Zhejiang Fenghong New Materials Co., Ltd., Dana Co., Ltd. and other units.

In addition, the summit also received Dow Chemical (China) Investment Co., Ltd., Xianchuang Chemicals, Guangdong Bardfu Technology Co., Ltd., Nanxiong Sanben Chemical Technology Co., Ltd., Jiangsu Panhua Chemical Technology Co., Ltd., Guangdong Huaguoshan Environmental Protection Technology Co., Ltd., Core Chemical, Guangdong Yinyang Environmental Protection New Materials Co., Ltd., Ashland (China) Investment Co., Ltd., Mingguang Feizhou New Materials Co., Ltd., Wanhua Chemical Group Co., Ltd., Wacker Chemicals (China) Co., Ltd., Shanghai Aorun Chemical Co., Ltd., Intekedi Pigment Technology Co., Ltd., Guangdong Langling Intelligent Equipment Co., Ltd., Deta Color Trading (Shanghai) Co., Ltd., Anshan Huihong New Material Chemical Co., Ltd., DSM (China) Co., Ltd., Guangdong Dazhi Environmental Protection Technology Co., Ltd., Shanghai Suitai Chemical Technology Co., Ltd., Zhejiang Wansheng Co., Ltd., Beijing Sidely Technology Co., Ltd., Covestro Polymer (China) Co., Ltd., Guangdong Pyler Intelligent Nano Technology Co., Ltd., Guangdong Henghe Yongsheng Industrial Co., Ltd., Wuxi Miduo Intelligent Technology Co., Ltd. and other units support.

The exhibitors of this forum are Guangdong Koala Color Card Packaging Co., Ltd., Yunfu Hongzhi New Materials Co., Ltd., Shanghai Chuangyu Chemical New Materials Co., Ltd., Shanghai Pengtu Antibacterial New Materials Co., Ltd., Hangzhou Color Spectrum Technology Co., Ltd., Fujian Grace Chemical Technology Co., Ltd., Nanxiong Jiaming Chemical Co., Ltd., Shaoguan Gemini Material Technology Co., Ltd., Guangdong Shunde Qiaotu Mechanical Engineering Co., Ltd., Shenzhen Changhui New Material Technology Co., Ltd., Zhongshan Yongfeng Chemical Co., Ltd., Guangzhou Elianhui Machinery Equipment Co., Ltd.