BIS Industrial Services

Part of Bilfinger Berger Industrial Services

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Mechanical Design New Build

Key Points:

  • Engineering & Design
  • New Build
  • Extensive Pipework

Engineering Services Case Study: Mechanical Design

The Client required a new modularised control room to rehouse and centralise all the electronic control systems for the 100,000 acre Runcorn site.  A new three-storey building was the first in a three phase project that would not only provide state of the art accommodation for the hardware, but also modern personnel facilities including offices, changing rooms, kitchens and showers.  Substantial mechanical services, supplied from existing site supplies, were required to provide adequate portable water and steam for this and other developments.

THE SCOPE OF THE CONTRACT

BIS Industrial Services's mechanical engineering team was responsible for initially identifying and subsequently engineering the steam and water supplies to the building. This involved working with the clients utility and process engineers to ensure that adequate consideration had been given to the end users' requirements, liaising with the various building subcontractors to determine demand.

During the design phase, BIS-IS Engineering's piping designers and mechanical engineers were responsible for detailing the break-ins to the existing pipework, routing and supporting some 400 metres of metallic and plastic pipework, carrying out the flexibility analysis of the steam pipework and the specification and procurement of all the main mechanical plant items, including a two stage steam let down station and relief system.

THE SCALE OF THE PROJECT

The total installed cost for the mechanical element of the project was around £100,000 and comprised apprioximately 400 metres of pipework and 20 main plant items.

BIS-IS was able to utilise in-house expertise and experience of the latest CAESAR II pipeline stressing software to quickly provide the piping layout designers with a workable pipe route and the structural and civil designers with pipework loadings, minimising the delays and iterations involved when using third party analysts.

We also provided and co-ordinated all the plant design, mechanical engineering and procurement activities from readily available in-house resources. Details from this design group were then, where appropriate, issued directly for in-house fabrication and installation.