Owner requirements that stay put
What the owner asked for lives across contracts, mail, and meeting notes. Vela keeps each requirement tied to the packages and decisions that deliver it.
Engineering and construction
An EPC runs many owners' projects on one bench, and every owner asks a different question. Vela holds each project's packages, procurement, and controls as one model, so answers come from the record and the bench stays on the work.
- Owner requirementsWhat the contract actually promised
- EngineeringPackages everything downstream depends on
- ProcurementOrders placed against issued design
- ConstructionSequence, subcontractors, and change
- TurnoverHandover with the evidence complete
What this team asks Vela.
What does this revision cost us downstream?
Which package is holding procurement?
Where are we against the owner requirement?
Vela answers from the project’s own record, and every answer names the document it came from.
Packages and revisions, traced
A revision moves procurement, subcontractors, and the schedule at once. Vela traces it through everything it touches and routes the decision to a named person.
Controls fed by the record
Progress, risk, and change data come from the same model the teams work in, so controls report the project as it is, not as it was at the last cutoff.
An owner notice reopens the basis.
One revision upstream is many packages downstream, followed from the notice to the change position.
What arrivesOwner correspondenceDesign basis revision noticeThe owner reopens a basis several packages sit on
What movedDesign basisIssuedReopenedAffected packagesOneSeveral
What it touchesProcurement Orders placed against the issued setChange position Cost and time the contract allows us to claim
Where it stopsProject managerOwns the change position before the owner hears a number. The notice response is drafted and waits on them.Waiting on sign-off
How a portfolio moves through Vela
The mechanism is the same on every page of this site, because it is the product. What changes is what it reads for you.
Connect what the work already produces
Vela reads the mail, drawing sets, registers, and calendars a project generates in the systems where they already live. Nothing gets moved and nothing gets re-entered.
The live model builds itself
Records, milestones, equipment, decisions, and owners get mapped into one operating picture. Every value keeps a way back to its source.
A change is traced to what it touches
When a source moves, Vela follows the change through the records and milestones that depend on it and flags the risk before the schedule slips.
A person signs off before anything moves
Vela stages the exact updates and drafts the replies, then stops. Nothing is written and nothing is sent until someone on your team approves it.
What Vela reads for an EPC portfolio
Vela connects to the systems each project already runs on and keeps every model current per owner.
Reading and writing stay separate. Vela reads the scopes you grant, and writing anything back is its own permission with a named person signing off.
Sources
Read-only
Project inboxesOwner notices, subcontractor threads, and vendor correspondence, kept per project
Project driveEngineering packages, transmittals, and the issued for construction sets
Tracking sheetsProcurement registers, progress tabs, and the change order log
Project calendarsPackage due dates, site milestones, and owner review meetingsArtifacts stay where they live. Vela reads them in place and keeps a way back to every source. The Google systems read today; the rest of the catalog ships in the order teams ask for it.
Who works out of it.
One model, read four ways. Each seat sees the records and decisions its own work depends on, without creating a second version of the project.
Project management
Owns the owner relationship, the schedule, and the change position.
Engineering leads
Issue the packages everyone downstream builds and buys against.
Procurement
Turns issued packages into orders, and orders into deliveries that hit the sequence.
Project controls
Reports progress and risk from the record rather than from the last status cycle.
Also in engineering and construction
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Pick your most demanding owner.
We will model their project and show the answers coming off the record.