The role of Lender`s Engineer in developer loan approvals. A knowledgeable, involved and neutral Lender Engineer can bring tangible and definite advantages that go beyond the stamp of approval to the developer`s table.
Increasingly Important Function The lender`s engineer (LE) is a representative of lending institutions such as banks and NBFCs. His function is to audit a project from the technical standpoint when a developer seeks funding for it. This is a process which risk/compliance teams have, over time, hard-wired into funding proposals by developers.
The obvious intention behind this requirement is to identify, mitigate and hedge the lending institution’s risks with regards to the technical aspects of construction. The key risks include: – The developer`s potential inability to service the debt – The potential use of the funds for purposes other than what they were allocated for – Construction progress not keeping pace with disbursement Currently, the RBI has not mandated any regulations in this regard.
The requirement of a Lender’s Engineer is a factor of the risk and compliance parameters of individual lending institutions. To safeguard the interests of all concerned, lenders have to ensure that the appointed LE has performed a sufficiently detailed review, provided the correct information and reviewed all the construction risks.
Rajdeep Advisory is the most excellent as lenders Independent Engineers in Indian corporate markets, a position as LE’s we have held for over seven years completed very successfully.
We are working with export credit agencies and IFIs. We have a long history and passion for international development work spanning over 8 years long period , and act as LE’s to projects funded by major international financial institutions (IFIs) and investment banks.
Our expertise of export credit agencies’ key issues, sensitivities and information requirements, means that we are ideally placed to provide the necessary assurance to secure development bank funding.
Industries: We have undertaken LE’s services for many sectors for small medium and large scale industries are as under:
Developers should use LE professional project development and monitoring services, which bring in best practices on
processes, and the increased efficiency in the development process always leads to a better product.
Also, identification of risks before hand will help to achieve better planning and early value engineering, which subsequently
leads to savings up to 10% on the project costs.