Engineering
RSV Australia’s Project Engineering activities are carried out within the Project Management constraints of the Project schedule, cost, quality and risk. All the engineering and technical aspects of a Project including system engineering, equipment specification and selection, design initiation and approval, all discipline engineering designs and calculations, drawing initiation and approval, approval of supplier’s documentation, contract administration and commissioning supervision are carried out as defined in the Project Execution Plan.
Although analysis is critical the more rewarding and value adding process is creative synthesis. Successful design maintains a finer balance between these two aspects of design. On a time scale the design morphology is categorized by two distinct phases; Primary Design and Secondary Design, both of which are vital to a successful outcome.
The Primary Design phase is composed of a feasibility study to establish the concepts, a preliminary design to quantify the parameters so as to establish the optimal solution and a detailed design to develop a complete engineering description of a tested and producible design.
In the Secondary Design phase issues such as manufacturing requirements, transportation constraints, user friendliness, aesthetics and disposal after its useful life need to be considered. It is important to understand that the design engineer must be involved throughout these processes.
Upon initiating a design in response to an identified need, the Package Manager or Senior Design Engineer will ensure that all design work conforms to: The Project Scope Of Work, The General Design Philosophy as described in the project implementation plan, Design Criteria and The Baseline Control Budget for both design work and the execution phase and a full design and risk review program.
After initiating a design, the Package Manager or Senior Design Engineer shall generate the following documents: Concept Sketches and Possible Options, Functional Philosophy, General Arrangement (GA) and / or Process Flow Diagram (PFD), Piping, Electrical and / or Instrumentation Diagram (P&ID) (as appropriate)
The Design Office Manager will use the approved documents to prepare an estimate of the staff-hours and number of drawings required for the design in question. No work will commence on the design until the Project Manager and the Engineering Manager have reviewed and approved all these preliminary documents and the budget estimate.
