As-building program

 Project Background:

• A gas plant in Northern Alberta dating back to the 1980s.
• Most of the drawings were lost in a past fire incident.
• The client acquired the facility and discovered a lack of documentation.
• Comprehensive as-building was needed to facilitate a facility HAZOP, allowing for future plant expansions and modifications.

Solution & Execution:

• Valor EPC received a package containing twelve hand-drawn mechanical flowsheets, a PFD, a plot plan, and some site photos.
• Hand-drawn images were drafted in AutoCAD before the site visit.
• A project kickoff meeting with the client's PM and operations team determined the required level of detail and focus areas.
• Valor deployed a skilled two-person team to the site to gather detailed information on piping, equipment, and instrumentation.
• The as-building team worked diligently, sending daily redlined markups back to the home office for drafting.
• Continuous communication and collaboration with client discipline leads and operations led to multiple revisions until the entire package met HAZOP quality standards.

Final Results:

• A fully reviewed and approved as-built package was delivered in less than a month, including a plot plan, two PFDs, and seventeen P&IDs.
• Fire and Gas P&IDs were developed.
• The initial drawing package consisted of fourteen drawings, while the final IFC (Issued for Construction) package included forty drawings, with twenty-six new drawings created in the process.