Core Deliverables

Engineering Calculations

We produce calculation packages that are code-compliant by design and fit for purpose in service. Standard scope covers sizing, wall thickness, nozzle loads, and support design. Condition-specific analysis addresses what code rules alone do not.

  • Code Scope
  • Pressure equipment code calculations
  • Nozzle loads and WRC analysis
  • Structural, wind, and seismic loading
  • Condition-Specific
  • Fatigue and cyclic loading assessment
  • Flange leakage and sealing integrity
  • Expansion bellows analysis
  • Creep and elevated temperature service
  • Thermal-transient and start-up/shutdown scenarios

Finite element analysis applied across all scopes where analytical methods reach their limits.

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3D Models & Technical Drawings

Our drawing packages are complete and unambiguous on the shop floor. Standard scope includes GA drawings, fabrication sets, and supplementary drawings for specific scenarios such as lifting or transportation. 3D models are fully parametric and properly constrained.

  • 3D Models
  • Parametric CAD models, fully constrained
  • Assembly and part modelling
  • Model-based dimensioning and tolerancing
  • Technical Drawings
  • General arrangement (GA) drawings
  • Detail and fabrication drawing packages
  • Equipment layout drawings
  • Transport, lifting, and rigging arrangements
  • Weld maps, BOM, and as-built documentation

All drawing packages issued in agreed format — PDF, DWG, or STEP — and reviewed before release.

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Applications

Engineering Scope

Code compliance and fabrication-ready documentation applied across pressure equipment, structures, piping, tanks, and integrated systems.

Pressure equipment design is straightforward until it isn't. Vacuum service introduces shell stability and buckling as governing failure modes. High temperature changes material behaviour, introduces creep, and drives differential thermal expansion between components. High pressure demands thick-wall analysis, nozzle reinforcement beyond standard area replacement, and fatigue screening for cyclic operation. Material selection spans carbon steel, low-alloy, stainless, duplex, nickel alloys, and clad construction — each with its own weldability, PWHT, and impact testing requirements. We cover the full range.

  • Pressure vessels, columns and separators
  • Shell and tube heat exchangers
  • Hairpin and double pipe heat exchangers
  • Waste heat boilers and process gas coolers
  • Air cooled heat exchangers (air fin coolers)
  • Jacketed and coil vessels
  • Reactors and autoclaves
  • Filters, drums and scrubbers
  • Rectangular and non-circular pressure vessels

Storage tank design sits between pressure vessel and structural engineering. Large diameter thin shells are governed by wind, vacuum, and seismic loads rather than internal pressure, and the interaction with foundations, settlement, and product containment adds complexity that standard code procedures address only in part.

  • Atmospheric fixed roof tanks
  • Floating roof tanks, internal and external
  • Cone roof and dome roof configurations
  • Low-pressure and pressure/vacuum relief tanks
  • Cylindrical and rectangular tanks
  • Above-ground and mounded configurations

Structural design for process plant combines gravity, wind, seismic, thermal, and equipment-induced loads in a single support system. The critical issues are usually not the primary members themselves, but load paths, connection behaviour, local stiffness, and deflection control under operating conditions. These are the details that determine whether a structure performs well in service or creates problems downstream.

  • Process equipment support structures
  • Pipe racks and cable trays
  • Access platforms and stairways
  • Mezzanine and operating floor structures
  • Skid base frames and module structures
  • Transport and lifting frames

Pipe stress analysis is where pressure, thermal movement, support conditions, and equipment interaction all converge. Thermal expansion, support spacing, nozzle flexibility, and dynamic effects from discharge, vibration, or transient operation each require separate consideration, but it is their interaction that usually governs. Most piping problems originate not from one load case alone, but from the way several act together.

  • Static pipe stress analysis
  • Dynamic analysis
  • Nozzle load evaluation on connected equipment
  • Support design and specification
  • Piping arrangement and isometric drawings

Structural attachments are often treated as secondary details, yet they are frequently the first source of site and fabrication problems. Lifting lugs, trunnions, saddles, clips, and transport supports must transfer load safely without introducing unintended local stresses, distortion, or load paths back into the pressure boundary. These components are small in scale, but they demand the same level of engineering discipline as the primary structure.

  • Lifting lugs, trunnions, and davit arms
  • Saddles, legs, and skirt supports
  • Pipe clips, clamps, and U-bolt supports
  • Earthing bosses and instrument connections
  • Spreader beams and lifting frames
  • Transport and shipping supports

Skid systems combine equipment, piping, and structures into a single integrated unit. Transport, lifting, installation, and operating conditions must all be considered from the outset, alongside access, interfaces, and thermal movement between connected components. The challenge is not individual component compliance alone, but making the complete assembly work as one coordinated system.

  • Equipment and piping integration
  • Structural support and base frame design
  • Transport and lifting conditions
  • Nozzle load and interface definition
  • Thermal expansion and flexibility