KPI for the engineering phase

the basis for tracking engineering progress is your DDR (design documents register).
The DDR lists all engineering deliverables, weighted based on manhours estimates and organised as per your WBS.
Each deliverable is then typically asigned a set % physical progress at pre-defined stage-gates (eg Document started, Issued for comment, issued for approval, etc)
There is no standard percentage of total project value -some projects will have high engineering and low construction costs, and visa versa. Presumably when you submited your tender, engineering costs were given as a lump sum?

Dear Izam,

You can make a survey among your management&supervising staff, about the importance of the document types in each discipline (I assume you already have a document register).
The you can create a document matrix which you can forecast a important factor of a document type in each discipline. Then you can use this factors as reference and use them as resources. Then the remaining way is easy. You can plan the submittal dates of documents or directly engineering could give it to you. If you have no other programme that you can connect the engineering items with construction, then you can return to your supervisors that asking about ETA required dates(will be your late dates). After you update the register you can easily have the earned % and progress weekly or monthly.

You can find other performance indicators in that site:
http://kpilibrary.com/

Best Regards,

Safak

Dear izam,

Adding a small remark to Safak.

The essence behind the KPIs is to reduce the cost and increase the customer satisfaction. So, when you ask your team to select the KPIs for Engineering, you can the dates for reviewing the submittals (Material and Shop drawings) and the number of manhours spent on reviewing them.

Best,

Samer