Starting at the front end of a project, GF Piping Systems supports engineering and design to ensure a sustainable and efficient solution. Our competence in a wide range of applications and proven references over decades, covering many high-end international operators, ensures the highest quality of management during project planning and execution.
Piping systems only represent a fragment of the budget of a typical industrial project – somewhere in the lower range of the one-digit percentages. But, when looking at the source of reliability issues the project might have to overcome, the portion dedicated to piping grows much bigger.
The reason for this discrepancy between relative importance and share in reliability challenges is to be found in design mistakes. If we compare design offices with doctors, piping systems could be considered as kidneys - yes, a typical physician knows much about them, but not into the last detail.
Studies show that up to 40% of design errors result in stress cracks while another 22% are linked to water hammer [1] . When looking at the consequences of those design mistakes, the concern only grows bigger: Failures usually result in downtime, which costs over $100’000 per hour for 98% of organizations [2], or contributes to project delays, that nowadays still affects 55% of construction projects [3].
The name of the game is, therefore, to prevent design errors from happening. This is where GF Piping Systems specialists can bring tremendous value, by accounting for the specificity of piping systems design. An even more specific science within this focus lies in the peculiarities of plastics. Would you for instance not calculate with both short term and long term E-modulus, design errors would not only be possible but probable. If the devil is in the details, you certainly don’t want to miss a chance to have our dedicated engineering team take a close look at the design and calculations of your piping system.
1: Reliability of piping systems – Volume 4, The Pipe Failure Event Database
2: Information Technology Intelligence Consulting
3: International Journal of Project Management – Vol. 24
When are our Advanced Engineering most helpful?
In projects with special planning challenges or operating situations, such as great variations in medium and ambient temperatures or aggressive media with possible influence on the material properties of the piping system.
What are our Advanced Engineering Calculation Report?
Comprehensive analysis and planning support for applications with particularly challenging and demanding environments.
Engineering Calculations :
- Dynamic/static mechanical stress analysis
- Pipe support, spacing and bracketing
- Specification design, review and adherence
- Heat loss calculations
- Hydraulic calculations and modeling (water hammer elimination)
- Seismic calculations
- Buried pipe load calculations
- Finite Element Analysis (FEM)
- CO2 sustainability calculations