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SPED New Level II QA Course – Special Bundle Offer

SPED New Level II QA Course – Limited Special Offer – Valid Until June 30, 2022
 
New Students with 4 years of acceptable experience can take both PBC Level I and Quality Assurance Level II video courses in sequence, for a combined bundle price of $2400 as well as PPD Certification Levels I & 2
 
Past Graduates of SPED online courses with 4 years of acceptable experience can take the Level II course for $1,000 until June 30, 2022. 
 
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SPED New Level II QA Course – Limited Special Offer – Valid until June 30, 2022.

New Students with 4 years of acceptable experience can take both PBC Level I and Quality Assurance Level II video course in sequence for a combined bundle price of $2400 as well as PPD Certification Levels I & 2

Past Graduates of SPED online courses with 4 years of acceptable experience can take the Level II course for $1,000 until June 30, 2022

Read more: SPED New Level II QA Course – Special Bundle Offer
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Full Scope Piping Management Using HVECs

 

Full Scope Piping Management Using HVECs


Seminar Summary

 

Introduction
 
A seminar was held by the Houston, Midwest and Calgary SPED Chapters to discuss how the extensive
use of High Value Engineering Centers (HVECs) would affect SPED’s requirements for certification.
Specifically, SPED’s highest level of Professional Piping Designers (PPD) certification is at Level IV, Full
Scope Management, will have to address the extra costing, scheduling, vetting, staffing and oversight
burdens, imposed by engineering work done remotely from the engineers who seal the designs.
Presentations were made by Ronald Waldon, William Beazley and Bruce Fraser, representing the
Midwest, Houston and Calgary Chapters, respectively. Mr. Waldon also chairs the PPD Advisory
Committee (PPDAC), which has oversight responsibility for the PPD program. Mr. Waldon gave an
overview of the PPD program and the requirements for Level IV. Dr. Beazley reviewed how the Level IV
requirements are tested and Mr. Fraser listed the challenges that using HVECs present on real projects.
Attendee input followed.
 
Summary of Findings
 
HVECs can be made to work
 
Properly planned and executed, High Value Engineering Centers for process plant design can be profitable. Working remotely
from plant sites, clients and engineering authorities is not new but the degree of remoteness and time
differences is much more extreme. Engineers-in-charge and managements responsibilities have grown
and depend on higher levels of vetting, communication and checking to validate the endorsement of
overseen work. When the sun never sets on the project, the sun never sets on its management.
 
HVECs must have careful vetting
 
HVECs must pre-qualify themselves before they get assigned work. According to Bruce Fraser, “our DOR
or division of responsibilities and the percent cut between the two office (Sarnia and Mumbai) is now
based on stated capabilities/ So, if the HVEC convinces management that they have a stated capability in
a certain area, the majority of the work in that area is going to go over there.” This means that there is a
greater burden of proof on HVECs that they have qualified and fully vetted personnel. It also means they
have to develop a compatible business culture regarding self-checking, personal responsibility
HVEC Projects must be managed differently
 
Projects with high HVEC content must be more carefully managed to profit from the Division of
Responsibility (DOR). The correct DOR is established in the Project Statement of Work (SOW). Manhour
budgets must include extra hours for communication and coordination.
 
HVECs must Include a local voice of the customer
 
Someone in the HVEC must enforce the intentions of the main office and the ultimate customer. That
person is a proxy for the managers and engineers who are, in turn, answering to the client and other
stakeholders. Bruce Fraser said, “we've turned up a focal point or a single point of contact who kind of
runs the crew there in a way, and helps coordinate the work locally on the floor. The leads are in regular

communication with this deputy.”

 

Read more: Full Scope Piping Management Using HVECs
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High Value Engineering Centres - A Description

Description of:

'High Value Engineering Centres' (known as HVEC), sometimes referred to as 'Global Engineering Centres' (GEC) or 'Low Cost Engineering Centres' (LCEG), are typically wholly-owned subsidiary offices of global engineering firms used to provide design and engineering services on major projects at reduced labour rates. 

What is it:

First instituted in the early 2000’s by major US engineering firms (eg Fluor Daniel), the concept is simple.  By leveraging cheaper, overseas labour for certain tasks on an engineering project, the EP can bid a project at a lower blended hourly rate to the client, thus gaining a competitive advantage in the market.

Typically, certain simpler tasks, such as drafting and drawing production have been offshored to the HVEC, with a supervision and QC stream attached to reduce re-work of the product.  The actual hours used to engineer the project are usually higher, due to inefficiencies in communication and time zones and quality, but because the global labour rates are so much less than North American rates, there is still a perceived benefit to overall cost.

As HVEC’s become utilized more and more and gain more experience, firms are moving more hours and more complex scopes of work, in a race to provide as low a blended rate to the clients as possible.  This has resulted in a breaking of the traditional project model in the local work force, reducing the need and opportunity for junior members to enter the field and grow in their expertise.

How did it use to work:

Previously, before the introduction of HVEC, project teams were constructed of a balance of junior designers/drafters and engineers, intermediate level persons and top level, senior staff, all at various rates of pay, to provide the blended rate to the market.  If there were a large number of deliverables on a job, you could weight the team heavily towards the junior/intermediate staff, utilizing your more experience and more expensive personnel for the technical, checking and supervisory roles.  Junior members were supplied by local educational institutions and mentored on the job, through various increasingly complex tasks, increasing their skills and knowledge as the progressed through their career.  Many moved on to be strong senior designers and leads who would then mentor a new crop of juniors in their wake.

Read more: High Value Engineering Centres - A Description
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SPED Egypt chapter - Facility Visit

SPED Egypt chapter and Engineering students were hosted for a very fruitful to VEC Valves Maintenance Facility in Badr, Cairo lasted for about 6 hours of intensive hands-on training, tutoring, and showing in detail all steps of valves recovery and maintenance.

VEC was founded in 2016 to provide the most proper and reliable valve engineering and supplying services for all types of valves anywhere in the world, including ball valves, gate, globe, and check valves; butterfly, Choke valves, and other types of valves for all applications.
VEC Partners of success include Flowserve Corporation, Merla LLC, BMT Group, and others. Know more about VEC from here https://vecvalves.com.

On behalf of the students, we would like to express our deepest thanks to VEC for hosting this visit.

For more about SPED please visit www.spedweb.com
Telegram Group t.me/SPEDEgypt
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#SPED #Egypt #Engineering #Career #Piping #PlantDesign #FuturePipers #VEC #FieldVisit #valves #Repair

 

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SPED Spain PPD Introduction - 27 January 2022

SPED Presentation at University of Seville to final year Master of Engineeering students

 

 

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Chempute Lunch & Learn Webinars 2022 with William Beazley

 

 

 

Dr. Beazley from Houston is an author of multiple training courses on Piping Design and Engineering, internationally known consultant on task analysis, structured assessment and training. William enjoys applying his diversified experience and knowledge in engineering, management and human resource development to challenging problems in piping engineering and design, project execution and work process improvement.

 

27 January 2022 - Lunch and Learn Session 1: Piping Assurance in a Digital World

Watch video of webinar at SPED YouTube:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y45VzkdKogo

Explore the methods available to check process plant layout and piping designs in today’s digital world. Most designs today represent the process plant as a digital model utilizing data structures tuned to capture the most important characteristics of equipment and pipe. It this form, plant data can be easily and accurately entered, changed, checked, reported, and repurposed.

By recognizing the design of these data structures and supporting software, methods can be developed to quality assure process plant data.


03 February 2022 - Lunch and Learn Session 2: Full Scope Piping Management Using HVECs

Watch video of webinar at SPED YouTube:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ox_5wMnb2vc

There is has been a decisive shift toward using High Value Engineering Centers (HVECs) to cut costs of major projects. While most report some projected savings using this approach, there are persistent complaints that the trend is fraught with problems and presents new demands on Piping Managers.
Issues include but are not limited to:

  • Correct Division of Labor in Project SOWs
  • Qualification of Personnel
  • Scheduling and Progress Reality
  • Checking and Mentoring of Distant Staff
  • Cultural Differences in Self-Checking and Responsibility
  • Limited Experience at Site and during Procurement, Fabrication, Construction, Commissioning.
  • Cost Realism in Bids
  • Setting the Right Expectations for Higher Management and Clients
  • Supply Chain and Offshoring Reliability and Robustness
Read more: Chempute Lunch & Learn Webinars 2022 with William Beazley
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