European Energy develops, finances, constructs and operates renewable energy projects across more than 20 countries, from its Copenhagen headquarters. Mads Thygesen, Head of Construction and Commissioning, began looking for a platform that could support teams directly in the field. Fieldwire gave European Energy’s teams a single place to manage drawings, tasks and inspections directly from the jobsite, and helped cut punch list closeout on one project from around three weeks to under 30 minutes.
European Energy at a glance
HQ: Copenhagen, Denmark
Sector: Renewable energy development, construction and operation — solar, onshore and offshore wind, battery storage, Power-to-X
Scale: 976 employees across 51 nationalities, more than 30 offices, founded 2004
Project size: From 32 MW UK solar farms to a 304 MW solar park in Denmark
Using Fieldwire since: 2025
Countries running Fieldwire: UK, Denmark, Germany, Spain, Greece, Romania, Latvia and Lithuania
__Key Fieldwire use cases __
- Drawings available anywhere & anytime on site, not only on a laptop in the welfare compound
- Task management and snag lists shared with contractors
- Inspection and commissioning forms, replacing Word documents and scanned paper
- A documented trail for decisions taken mid-construction
- Standardised task categories and attributes across a growing project portfolio
The challenge: efficiency, quality and traceability
Before Fieldwire, European Energy managed most of its construction and commissioning work through established tools including email, Microsoft Excel and SharePoint. These tools had supported the company as it expanded, but the growing number and complexity of projects created a need for a more integrated approach to managing information from the construction site. On one solar project in Scotland, the team had to commission 68 inverters, the units that convert direct current to alternating current. Each required a five-page Word document to be completed, signed off and subsequently digitised and filed.
As the company took on more projects, more contractors and more people, that way of working started to show its limits.
For Thygesen, the case for a dedicated system centred on three priorities: improving efficiency, supporting quality and strengthening traceability from end to end across a project.
The solution
Thygesen scouted the market himself. He asked experienced construction managers across Europe what they had used, and remembered a punch list he had once received from an external contractor on a solar project in Lithuania, which led him to Fieldwire. He downloaded a trial version to get a first-hand understanding of the platform and how it could work in practice.
Two things stood out straight away in the basic version. He could get fast, reliable access to drawings on site rather than back at the welfare compound. He could also create, manage and close tasks directly from the field.
European Energy then moved into a formal evaluation involving IT and colleagues across engineering, procurement and construction. The team developed a list of 60 to 70 requirements covering both functionality and technical considerations. Information security requirements helped narrow the field, followed by demonstrations involving a broader group of colleagues.
European Energy started with 100 licences in the first weeks of January 2026, following a kickoff meeting in Copenhagen with the Fieldwire team.
How European Energy uses Fieldwire
Plans and drawings
For Thygesen, having the latest drawing to hand was never about the laptop in the office container. It was about opening it wherever the conversation with a contractor was actually happening.
Task management and punch lists
Thygesen ran his first proof of concept on a live project in Latvia with just 10 licences. He shared access with his site manager, two engineers and the two largest contractors on site, all working from Android devices. There were no manuals and no formal process, just a conversation in the site office. From there, the team created almost 800 punches on that project alone, and closeout speed changed dramatically.
Forms and inspections
Forms weren't part of the original 10-licence agreement, which was meant to cover task management only, but Thygesen tried them anyway. He built two electrical inspection forms after watching a couple of YouTube videos, then handed them to an electrical supervisor. Word of it spread fast. The supervisor soon asked for the same forms on another site. He had previously spent an hour inspecting equipment, then returned to the welfare compound to offload photos from his phone and write everything up in a Word document.
The impact: three weeks to half an hour
The clearest before-and-after comparison comes from that first Latvian project. Closing out a punch list once took around three weeks in Excel. With Fieldwire, it took under 30 minutes from creating the first punch to hearing back from the contractor.
Asked to sum up Fieldwire in a single word, Thygesen didn't hesitate.
What Fieldwire did for European Energy, it can do for your teams. See it for yourself.
