Design effectiveness has a huge impact on addressing costs in construction work.
Recent statistics point out that:

• thirty per cent of construction work is repeated;
• forty per cent of projects are late or over budget;
• errors in planning lead to a repetition in work accounting for fifteen per cent of total project cost;
• forty per cent of the manpower used on construction sites can be wasted.

Best international practices to prevent these problems are based on a simple principle: "separating the design phase from construction and introducing design assessment between such phases".
Many European countries (including Italy) introduced design assessment "by law", in infrastructure projects as a pre-requisite to construction.
According to ODIE's experience in Europe, design assessment may result in relevant cost saving and reduce delay.
ODIE provides design verification and assessment in each stage of the design process:

• Preliminary design;
• Final draft design;
• Executive design.

This service is provided referring to a control plan. This document includes a list of controls to be executed throughout the design process. Such controls depend on the type of work and must be approved by the customer.
Based on control plans, ODIE performs design verification and assessment services focused on the following issues: designing process assessment; design compliance with the customer's requirements; design compliance with applicable codes and standards; design and drawing completion; structural calculations' check; electrical equipment completion; bill of quantity; quality plan (for construction works) assessment; safety and environmental plan assessment.
ODIE provides customers with:

• a systematic reporting system throughout the design process;
• an inspection certificate attesting to the achievement of positive results (limited to the customers'requirements).

ODIE's design verification and assessment service, allows customers to:

• reduce overall construction time and costs;
• increase the trust on project feasibility;
• minimise compliance risks with codes, standards and contractual requirements;
• reduce design modifications (and related additional costs and delays) during the construction phase;
• reduce delays' risks in the construction phase due to incomplete or wrong projects;
• prevent unexpected costs during the construction phase;
• improve the effectiveness of quality, safety and environmental plans;
• reduce litigation and claims with contractors;
• improve the reliability of the time schedule.