Your worst nightmare.
Without proper planning on the front end of your oil & gas, petrochemical, power or renewable project from B&W Energy Services, that’s what it could eventually become. By waiting until construction is nearly complete to take pre-commissioning into consideration, you could lose millions of dollars and add weeks of costly downtime in one fell swoop. Bring in B&W at the start to proactively save time and money throughout your project’s life cycle. How do we accomplish this? We take the desired result, work backward and plan from there. Here are a few of B&W’s keys to successful project engineering.
Safety from Start to Finish
B&W’s top priority is safety. When projects are improperly designed, accidents can happen, which is unacceptable. Accidents are often preventable, and we place the utmost emphasis on proper engineering and implementing precautions before the project even begins. By upholding ISO 9001:2015 standards, B&W strives to achieve the goal of zero safety incidents.
In order to maximize safety within a project, our engineering team creates a procedure covering all safety risks that addresses our needs and the needs of our clients. When our engineers work with your team, all aspects of the process are covered and documented, creating the smoothest path forward in success and safety. Although maintaining schedule and budget are essential within a project, the most critical aspect of a project is protecting the people contributing to it.
Don’t Overlook Design
To maximize efficiency and effectiveness, B&W considers your project’s cleaning phase during the design process so that when construction is eventually complete, these systems can be cleaned without delay. This way, your project can progress without a hitch, staying on schedule and under budget from the start during pre-commissioning and commissioning activities. These efforts have delivered an estimated savings of 1 to 5% of the project’s total investment value, equating to thousands or even millions of dollars.
The key to a newly constructed plant’s operation is cleaning and testing its systems. So often, this step becomes a roadblock due to a lack of consideration within the design process. For example, reworking piping or equipment that’s already been installed is a very real possibility if you don’t plan ahead. Many gaskets, seals and component parts have lengthy ordering lead times, which may negatively impact your project’s schedule. That’s why having a complete replacement parts list to use when reinstalling said items for cleaning processes and paying attention to every detail from the start is essential.
With B&W, we evaluate your designs at the start of your project’s life cycle by leveraging decades of industry experience to spot potential problems and solve them before they occur. Each facet of your project’s design must be set up properly for optimal cleaning, and B&W helps you do just that.
Collaborate With the Client
What is commissioning and pre-commissioning without collaboration? B&W works closely with each client to ensure that our comprehensive engineering packages integrate their desired standards, specifications and regulations alongside expert planning procedures. B&W’s thorough and effective engineering process guarantees your project begins with excellence so it can launch successfully and maintain that momentum throughout its life cycle.
By maintaining consistent and constant communication with our clients, we work to avoid pesky cost hikes and prolonged delays in their projects further down the line. B&W serves as each client’s single point of contact for their engineering needs, commissioning needs and everything in between. We don’t piecemeal out work to various vendors. With B&W, you have one vendor and one point of contact for each aspect of your project, allowing your project to benefit from the consistency and cohesiveness of having the same people work on your project from beginning to end.
The B&W team approaches each project by envisioning the end goal and reverse engineering it to determine how to achieve it from the start. To maximize your project’s safety, efficiency and effectiveness, give us a call. We work tirelessly for our clients to identify potential problems before they occur and plan for them accordingly—we can do the same for you, too.