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How much HV operating capacity is hidden in project admin?

Estimate the time your team loses to DNO enquiries, NEC4, NERS, ISO, CDM, CDE, meetings, subcontractors, procurement, finance and project control.

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Your business

This changes which agents have most impact and which plan is recommended.

Your firm

The workload

Active NEC4, DNO connection, design or commissioning projects requiring ongoing admin.

Use your design or consultancy fee — not the construction value.

Project count shows volume. Project fee value shows complexity. OpsWork calculates both.

Includes grid connection enquiries, G99 applications, framework tender responses and informal scoping requests.

IR35 assessments, insurance verification, CSCS cards, CHAS/SSIP accreditation, RAMS review.

Evidence burden

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Your time

3 hrs/wk

This is allocated within the total — not counted twice.

These are consultancy capacity rates, not payroll rates. They reflect salary, employer cost, overhead, lost recoverable time and the cost of senior engineers doing coordination work. UK employer NI 15% and minimum pension 3% included.

HV operating capacity released

2,678 hours/year

= 335 eight-hour days of capacity released

Estimated consultancy capacity value

£265,900

Based on recovered HV design, director decision and technical operations capacity.

£206,700

Conservative

£265,900

Expected

£310,200

Fully implemented

Calculated using 8 engineers as the midpoint for this firm size.

Where the time comes back

James
544 hrs/yr
Robert
375 hrs/yr
Emma
569 hrs/yr
Michael
244 hrs/yr
Sarah
457 hrs/yr
Paul
339 hrs/yr

About 1.9 hrs/week Sunday evening time returned

Allocated from total — not counted twice.

Your time back

The Bridge

3.8
hours/week returned to you

= 22 eight-hour days per year where the business is not using you as its inbox, escalation queue and memory system.

Sunday/evening time returned About 0 hrs/week
Decisions batched into Bridge per week Around 0

The Bridge batches decisions from Emma, Sarah, James, Robert, Michael and Paul into one morning queue, with sources, confidence scores and audit trail attached.

Use that time for family, strategy, client relationships, or simply not working every Sunday evening.

OpsWork Foundation

£29,940 /year

£16.18 per engineer per working day

£374 per live project per month

Break-even requirement

0.8

hours per engineer per week

Expected saving: 0 hrs per engineer per week

Only 11% of the expected saving needs to materialise for OpsWork Foundation to pay for itself.

Net value after OpsWork £236,000

Every month without OpsWork costs about £22,200 in lost operating capacity. OpsWork Foundation costs £2,495/month.

Payback period 26 working days

Not included in this headline

Faster quote turnaround · Reduced missed NEC4 response risk · Improved cash collection · Fewer audit nonconformities · Reduced subcontractor onboarding delays · Less duplicated project knowledge · Security value of running inside your own Azure tenant

Validate this against one live HV project — book a 20-minute demo

In the demo we map OpsWork against your current workflow and show assumptions line by line.