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Defined engineering packages within your project team
Bring IPE into your project for a defined engineering package, a discipline scope or an agreed team extension. We work within the model environment, standards and document-control requirements agreed with your lead team, with clear interfaces and review milestones.
Engagement models
Three ways to engage IPE
Whichever model you choose, the proposal fixes the scope, the deliverables list, the issue milestones and how changes and acceptance are handled.
Work package
A defined deliverable with a fixed scope and issue dates – for example piping layout and isometrics, pipe stress analysis, steel structures, electrical and control design, or a laser scan and as-built model.
Discipline scope
One discipline for a whole project, from basic to detail design, coordinated with your lead engineer and your other contributors through agreed interfaces.
Agreed team extension
Engineers working in your project environment for an agreed period and scope, for peaks in your workload. Names, roles and the period are set out in the proposal.
Inputs, outputs and interfaces
Your standards, model environment and drawing templates
We deliver to your project's conventions. The table shows what we need from your lead team and what we return at each step.
| Step | From your lead team | From IPE |
|---|---|---|
| Scope | Scope and battery limits, schedule, available design documents | Written proposal: deliverables list, exclusions, issue milestones, assumptions |
| Set-up | Model environment (for example an AVEVA E3D or PDMS project with your catalogues and specifications), standards, numbering, drawing templates and title blocks | Set-up check and a deliverables register in your numbering |
| Design | Design inputs from your lead disciplines, vendor data, answers to technical queries | Design within the agreed interfaces; a list of open interface items kept up to date |
| Review and issue | Review comments at the agreed milestones | Internal check by a second engineer before each issue; controlled revisions under your revision rules |
| Changes | Change requests | The effect on scope and dates stated and agreed with you before change work starts |
| Handover | Acceptance criteria agreed in the proposal | Final issue, native model and drawing files and the document register, as agreed |
Local standards such as GOST, SNiP or DSTU are applied where your client specifies them. Drawings made under a partner's title block remain the partner's documents and are not published as IPE's work. Confidentiality, intellectual property, design rights and end-client contact are defined in each proposal.
Tools
Software we work in
| Discipline | Software |
|---|---|
| Process | Aspen Plus simulation; piping and instrumentation diagrams (P&IDs) |
| Plant layout and piping | AVEVA E3D and PDMS, CADWorx |
| Pipe stress | CAESAR II |
| Civil and steel structures | Revit, Advance Steel, SCIA |
| Electrical and control | ELCAD |
| Existing plants | Point clouds from 3D laser scans, Navisworks model review |
Quality and handover
- EN ISO 9001:2015 quality management, SGS, certificate SK07/0134
- Every document checked by a second engineer before issue
- Engineers authorised by the Slovak Chamber of Civil Engineers, with authorisation also from the Czech chamber
- Documents in English, Slovak, Czech and Russian; project meetings in English
- Office in Michalovce, Slovakia, on Central European Time; site visits and designer's supervision where agreed
Partner examples
Packages delivered within other engineering teams
Contracting party, plant location and IPE's package are shown separately.
| Contracting party | End client and plant location | Years | IPE package | Working environment |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Contiplus Limited, Malta; Xylo Engineering CZ, Czech Republic | Resin and glue plants, Kaluga and Ufa, Russia | 2021–2022 | P&IDs, mechanical detail design, civil design; 45 P&IDs, 1,312 pipelines, 2,853 valves, 199 equipment items | Bilingual English–Russian documents; civil drawings to GOST |
| TechniCAD Engineering, Switzerland | Nestlé, Konolfingen, Switzerland: extension of the fermentation unit | 2020–2021 | Detail design and 3D model; 188 pipelines, 458 valves, 4 equipment items | Delivered in TechniCAD's title blocks; TechniCAD was the contracting route to the end client |
| JPS, Slovakia | U. S. Steel Košice: coke-oven gas desulphurisation – dephlegmator and coal-water stripper | 2018–2019 | Laser scan, 3D model of the existing plant, detail design, pipe stress analysis (CAESAR II) | 3D model built on the laser scan |
| TechniCAD Engineering, Switzerland | PEG2MAL pharmaceutical project, Belgium | 2012–2013 | Piping and HVAC design | PDMS |
| Energyco, Slovakia | CORUS, IJmuiden, the Netherlands: continuous galvanising line DVL3 | 2007–2008 | Detail design and PDMS model; 1,005 pipelines, 298 valves, 237 equipment items | PDMS model delivered to Energyco |
| Grontmij | Carl Bro, Denmark | Wintergas LPG carrier (2007) and cooling-station modules for a multigas LNG/LPG carrier (2008), Denmark | 2007–2008 | Detail design of steel structures and piping | PDMS model |
| Koch-Glitsch Italia, Italy | Kuibyshevazot, Togliatti, Russia: revamp of a cyclohexanone rectification unit | 2012–2013 | Basic design | PDMS model |
Other engineering firms and licensors we have delivered packages for include ABB Lummus Global, KG Process Innovations, Biochemtex, OT Industries, Technip, and JPS, ProIng and AMT Servis for U. S. Steel Košice. Full reference list
What we need to scope a package
The discipline and scope; your model and tool environment; the standards and interfaces; the issue dates; your confidentiality requirements.