At a basic level, an owner’s engineer is an experienced consultant brought onto the project team with a deep understanding of both the industry being supported and experience working with engineering and construction firms, thus able to represent the company interest. Commonly, it is someone who has successfully executed similar commercialization projects multiple times and joins the team with experience of the entire process.  Understanding of the industry being supported is a key factor not to be overlooked. The way that novel food, petrochemical or aseptic fermentation process are commercialized is very different and having the right experience for a specific industry is critical to ultimate success.   Some thoughts on selecting the right owner’s engineer is as follows.

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