DESIGN REVIEW OF INDUSTRIAL FACILITIES

Providing confidence that your design achieves best practice standards

Companies in the oil & gas, power and process industries need to have high levels of confidence that their facilities will operate as intended. If lifetime costs are to be minimized, problems must be identified and eliminated from the design.

Owners want facilities to be built to standards that have been proven by the experience of industry, and meet their own exacting requirements for operational, safety and environmental performance.

What is Design Review?
Design review is an independent review of the design intent of an engineered system or process, as defined by documented standards. The scope of review will normally include structures, vessels, pipelines, and safety systems. The review process also aims to identify errors or failures in the design (or operation) of the engineered systems and processes.

Bureau Veritas Technical Centres provide two types of systematic design review according the needs of clients – either a 100% appraisal of the design against relevant design standards, or a verification (sampling) review against standards defined by the facility operator. The latter is based on the goal-setting approach which originates with UK safety case regulations and verification against DCR and PFEER.

Your benefits
The review provides confidence that your asset design is compliant with well-proven standards, and guidelines that draw on the best-practice experience of the oil & gas industry. Where design review is required by regulation, a certificate is provided as evidence of compliance. By confirming that the design is based on best practice standards, the review also contributes to demonstrations that risks are ALARP (as low as reasonably practicable).