Global engineer-procure-construct (EPC) spending will rise from $741 billion in 2025 to $784 billion in 2026, a 5.8% compound annual growth rate, driven by higher electricity demand, decarbonization, and infrastructure investment. Power plant EPC is projected to grow at a 5.2% rate through 2033, mainly due to renewables, thermal upgrades, and hybrid systems.
In this environment, owners require EPC partners who offer transparency, flexibility, and execution certainty. At JE Dunn, we separate ourselves from traditional EPC firms by providing the transparency, partnership, and proactive communication that power generation clients require.
With a transparent process and teamwork, JE Dunn helps owners meet grid reliability, decarbonization, and energy market challenges, ensuring smooth project delivery from start to finish.
With more than a century of experience, JE Dunn leverages a combination of core expertise to ensure every project is executed with precision, efficiency, and lasting value. These key focus areas form the foundation of our success, from project kickoff to final delivery.
Flexible, Client-Centric Engineering Approach
Traditional EPC firms often depend on in‑house engineering teams that may not match the technical requirements, permitting expectations, or schedule pressures of today’s power‑sector projects. JE Dunn takes a different approach, partnering with engineering firms that specialize in natural‑gas‑based generation, including RICE and turbine technologies.
This flexibility has become increasingly valuable as demand for gas turbines accelerates across the market. OEM orders have been revised upward across aeroderivative, industrial, and heavy‑frame classes due to data‑center growth, grid‑stability needs, and long‑term infrastructure investments.
This flexible model allows us to select engineering teams not only for technical match, but also for resource availability and the ability to meet schedule commitments. Regional experience is equally important; our partners bring local knowledge of unique conditions, utility standards, and permitting expectations, helping ensure designs are aligned with the specific needs of each project location.
By selecting engineering partners with deep power‑sector experience, we ensure design teams fully understand project priorities, utility standards, safety expectations, and operational requirements. This flexible model allows clients to choose engineering partners aligned to their technology and performance goals, creating a solid technical foundation for successful power projects.
Proactive Procurement & Strong OEM Alignment Reduce Project Risk
In most power projects, major equipment such as gas turbines, RICE units, and transformers are purchased directly by the owner. JE Dunn integrates this equipment into the overall plant design, ensuring constructability, proper interfaces, and successful installation.
JE Dunn supports private clients with original equipment manufacturer (OEM) engagement when needed, but our main strength is managing balance of plant (BOP) systems, materials, and key long-lead components to keep projects on schedule and within budget. Strong OEM partnerships let us start equipment procurement early, ensuring timely delivery and cost control.
As the energy market evolves and demand for specialized talent increases, JE Dunn continually evaluates trade partners to ensure strong staffing and reliable execution for power projects nationwide. With a 26‑office footprint and long‑standing national relationships, JE Dunn can scale electricians, boilermakers, pipefitters, center line specialists, civil/structural teams, and controls systems experts. This lowers risk and increases schedule reliability.
Self-Perform and Trade Partners Drive Project Success
Extensive self‑perform capabilities and a strong network of specialty trade partners are essential for delivering safe, high‑quality power generation projects. Together, these resources improve cost and schedule while supporting consistent execution.
Predictable Project Outcomes: Self‑perform services and specialized power trades help secure labor and material availability for critical path activities—supporting strict commissioning timelines and ensuring assets are ready for grid integration.
Accurate, Reliable Cost Control: By engaging during early design development and integrating detailed engineering with BOP procurement, JE Dunn provides owners with greater cost precision. Our open‑book approach, market‑anchored estimating, and constructability‑driven design reviews reduce cost risk, particularly in projects influenced by long‑lead equipment, emissions‑control systems, and civil/structural demands.
Schedule Reliability: Self‑perform execution of key scopes, combined with proven specialty trade partners, helps secure labor and material availability for critical‑path activities. This approach supports reliable commissioning timelines, early interconnection readiness, and on time delivery to meet grid or facility demands.
Quality & Safety: By self‑performing key scopes and partnering with trade contractors who meet rigorous safety and QA/QC expectations, JE Dunn helps power producers meet high standards for reliability, high‑energy equipment installation, and safety compliance, supporting smooth startup and long‑term performance.
Broad Industrial Expertise Drives Better Power‑Sector Outcomes
JE Dunn brings experience from a diverse portfolio of industrial markets, allowing us to apply lessons learned from manufacturing, mission‑critical, heavy industrial, and large civil projects. When tasked with a new project, we don’t prohibit ourselves from exploring other sectors where different expertise can add value to a power project.
We believe that our collective knowledge as a company empowers us not only to deliver successful projects for our clients but also to innovate and develop smarter solutions to complex work. This mindset helps us bring fresh perspectives, find tailored solutions for each client’s unique needs, and ultimately deliver better outcomes—no matter the industry.
Ryan Wilson is a Project Manager at JE Dunn Construction, serving industrial and manufacturing clients. Ryan has spent four years of his seven-year career on projects with Georgia-Pacific. He has served as Last Planner Champion on multiple projects and is an advocate for big rooms, choosing by advantages, target value delivery, and other lean practices.
As a Project Manager, Ryan coordinates all JE Dunn and trade partner project activities, beginning in preconstruction by leading collaborative efforts with the owner, architect, and key trade partners.
Ryan received his bachelor’s degree in civil engineering from Mississippi State University
