Learn About C&I Engineering's Project Execution Solution

We own our work and it shows

Our approach to project management ensures that the higher level thinking is done up front and at every stage of a project. This ensures that obstacles and challenges are foreseen, that rework is minimized and that the clients get the most for their investment. Beyond the procedures we have in place, each and every associate takes ownership of their work and this yields outstanding results.

Whether we are awarded an initial conceptual study on a single project or one that takes us from concept through detail design and construction, we have a project execution plan for every job.

We start with a kickoff meeting with the team and the client to align goals and expectations, then a planning workshop to formulate how information is going to flow during that project. This is also where responsibilities are set so everyone knows who needs to do what for whom.

The schedules take shape from that, and we determine how we will do cost reporting, as well as weekly or monthly reporting to the client. All of that makes up the project execution plan. This involves a lot of people with the project manager overseeing it all.

Minimizing Rework, Optimizing Results

Front-End Engineering & Design (FEED/Schedule A)

At this point preliminary design is underway, providing a road map, identifying potential challenges and helping minimize possible rework later on. Procurement gets our two-phased bidding process going for quotes on all the engineered items and equipment. Our expertise in this stage sets us up for success, and allows us to generate a much tighter overall estimate (+/-10%).

Detailed Design

After the conceptual and feasibility studies have been completed, and preliminary design has yielded a reasonably tight estimate of costs, the real intense design work can begin. This is where we put together all drawings for construction and maintenance, where electrical schematics, foundation plans and other detailing all come together. This is also when we begin assembling parts, ordering piping and ensuring that everything fits.

There is a great deal of coordination involved at this stage. Our strength as a company is that our teams have worked together on many projects over a number of years. Collaboration and coordination among the different disciplines has been fine tuned through experience. Plus, we have proven procedures and methods that make the coordination of elements more reliable.

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Refinery Optimization Project
C&I devised scopes of work to optimize a refinery in the Midwest. Our involvement in the project included work for: the FCCU scrubber, purge treatment unit, soda ash system, olefin/amine debottlenecking, condensate recovery, outfall water line sump, and electrical infrastructure.
Stranded Gas Recovery (NSPS Sub J)
C&I provided ISBL and OSBL conceptual design, FEED, detail design, construction and start-up support for the installation of a new reciprocating compressor. The ISBL work included design and installation of the compressor, heat exchangers, pressure vessels, pumps, foundations, structural steel, electrical and instrumentation, and piping.
Flare Compliance
The objective of this project was to install instrumentation and analyzers on four (4) refinery flares to comply with EPA regulations by the end of 2011. C&I provided the FEED (Front End Engineering & Design) for four (4) flare systems to serve as safety relief devices, as well as control devices, for the combustion of various hydrocarbon streams from normal refinery operations. The flares are subject to the NSPS and MACT regulations, which require flares to operate at or above 98% combustion efficiency.