Inside a 9-Month Site Delivery, Start to Finish

Key takeaways

• Most of a nine-month delivery is planning, power and permits; construction is the shortest phase.

• Starting the utility application during the site assessment is what protects the timeline.

• One team owning every phase removes the hand-offs where projects usually lose weeks.

Month one: assessment and agreements

Every project starts with a site visit and a power assessment. We map the existing supply, identify where the chargers should go, and open the conversation with the utility in the same month, long before a charger model is chosen.

In parallel, the commercial terms are agreed with the site owner, so the legal work never sits on the critical path behind the technical work.

Months two to five: power, design and permits

This is the longest stretch, and almost all of it is waiting on third parties: capacity studies, connection offers and planning consent. Because the applications went in early, the design work runs alongside them instead of after them.

By the end of this phase the layout is fixed, the grid connection date is booked and the permits are in hand.

Months six to eight: build and commissioning

Construction is usually the quickest part of the programme: groundworks, cabling, charger installation and the connection itself. Our crews work around the site's opening hours so tenants and visitors are disrupted as little as possible.

Each charger is then commissioned, tested and connected to our monitoring platform before it is opened to drivers.

Month nine: live, and still ours to run

Going live is not the end of the project. We keep operating the site, watching uptime, handling maintenance and reporting usage back to the owner, so the infrastructure keeps performing long after the opening day.