Advanced Problem Solvers

C&I believes your process is the heart of your facility. Our Process Engineers enjoy solving problems, and while there isn’t much our team hasn’t seen, we’re always up for a new challenge. We have taken several applications from concept to life through our process aptitude, including but not limited to the world’s largest DMS facility, a unique cooling process for bourbon, and a proprietary process for producing H₂S. Additionally, our associates are adept at performing debottlenecking studies to gain optimal performance from your existing facility.

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Fitting the Pieces Together

These skilled associates are Project Management Professionals, and they approach each project with this methodology at the foundation of everything they do. Monitoring and controlling the project, coordinating all disciplines, recognizing deviations, and presenting solutions to the project manager are at the core of day-to-day activity. C&I understands that successful project management leads to repeatable, quality results.

Our Tools

• C&I Project Management and Engineering Instructions
• Weekly and Monthly Project Progress Reporting
• Project Budget Tracking and Forecasting
• Project Schedule and Activity Management  
• Project Scope Management and Deviation Tracking
• Vendor Submittal Management and Review
• Action Items and Issues/Decisions Tracking
• Lessons Learned System

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Ensuring that the scan has the exact locations and the exact details is vital to building an accurate model. Our laser scanning team incorporates survey into the scan by aligning the 3D data to your plant coordinates. As both the creator AND user of the scan, we know which points are most critical to capture.

Benefits of Choosing C&I for your Laser Scanning Needs

• Quality: C&I’s in-depth, 3-phase Quality Assurance Program ensures all details are precisely captured and input into the final model. We efficiently delete unwanted “noise” and moving objects to provide a crisp and clean point-cloud.
• Accuracy: Accurate and interactive scans are produced, allowing you to make informed design decisions. Incorporating a 3D model and scan provides the necessary tools to get error-free fit-up in the field.
• Time and Cost Savings: The latest technology is utilized to complete the job quickly and efficiently. Utilizing the scan allows multiple team members to work collaboratively. Additionally, 3D scans reduce the required amount of field time to execute our designs.
• Safety: All of our field personnel are TWIC certified and go through rigorous C&I safety training. Site-specific training is also received to ensure safe practices are understood and any potential dangers are recognized and minimized. As a non-invasive process, scanning allows for important data to be captured from a safe distance without erecting any scaffolding for hard to reach, potentially dangerous areas.

A Skillful Eye

We spend time on-site carefully planning the scan. We leverage our experience to strategically place the equipment, and we know what requirements are needed when fitting up elevated piping. Thus, the team ensures that all required areas are captured and that there is an accurate depiction of the current installation. All these considerations go into the planning and execution of our scans and makes the modeling team’s job easier.

Our Tools

• Trimble S5 Robotic Total Station
• FARO Focus S70
• RECAP
• LFM

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We Own Our Work and It Shows

Our approach to project management is to conduct up-front planning to plot the course for the project. Not only does this planning provide a roadmap for the project, it allows us to adapt as it progresses. This ensures that obstacles and challenges are foreseen, rework is minimized and that our clients get the most for their investment. Although not all projects require the same management methodology, our sophisticated engineering thought process is unwavering. Our flexibility allows us to meld our project procedures around our clients’ needs.

All of our Project Managers are certified Project Management Professionals with a combined 220 years of experience, giving us a competitive edge when it comes to leading teams. We know what it takes at each phase to make a project successful and we work hand-in-hand with internal and external stakeholders to achieve the desired outcome. C&I prides itself on developing relationships based on transparent communication.

Your Success is Our Success

At C&I, we have developed internal Project Management Instructions and Engineering Instructions that are maintained by the Project Management and Project Engineering groups and utilized on all of our projects, ensuring superior results. Combining this with cutting-edge techniques allows us to orchestrate engineering, procurement, project controls, and our client as a full project team. As an extension of your team, our associates carefully consider how our piece of the puzzle contributes to the overall success of your organization. We want to be your engineering partner today, solving the challenges of tomorrow.

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Mitigating Risks, Optimizing Controls

The key to operating an efficient process is selecting the optimal control strategy and associated instrumentation. We emphasize our safety slogan, Safety By Design, every time we approach a project. In partnership with our client, we participate in hazard reviews to identify safety-critical parts of the process. When risks cannot be eliminated in the design, we employ our vast experience implementing SIS applications to avoid adverse consequences.

From programming local PLC/HMIs for an independent processes to integrating into complex plant control systems, our team’s knowledge allows us to seamlessly incorporate our designs. We have assisted our clients in building extensive fiber networks and installing state-of-the-art operator consoles to increase system reliability.

Electrical Expertise

A solid electrical infrastructure is critical to plant operations. C&I has been at the forefront of many projects with the goal of improving reliability and safety of electrical systems. This is achieved by upgrading antiquated electrical equipment to reduce potential for arc flash making equipment safer for maintenance and operations, and increasing reliability through redundant power sources for critical processes. We optimize system performance by balancing loads and coordinating electrical circuit protection, thus reducing plant downtime.

When working on projects, we apply our knowledge of codes and standards to perform hazardous area classification evaluations. This is essential to developing equipment layout and selecting appropriate system components. Due to our expertise, clients lean on us to provide audits of their facility to identify gaps and provide remediation plans. When it comes to electrical installations, C&I puts your safety first!

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Collaboration is Key

C&I’s team has extensive experience in both greenfield and retrofit design and understands that working in an existing facility presents a host of challenges. It requires a different skill set to discover client preferences and effectively integrate within existing designs. Our associates travel onsite during the design phase of nearly all our projects, gathering the data to design upgrades and expansions that are not only efficient and optimized, but also take current to operations into consideration.

Combining our 3D model with our self-performed laser scan allows us to provide client’s with a visual representation of the final design. During the project, we proactively involve operations, maintenance, and engineering to gain stakeholder buy-in and work out complex issues prior to installation. Each of these unique perspectives contributes to the final product. Effectively utilizing these tools provides an accurate design with little or no rework, saving our clients time and money.

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Tailored, Transparent Estimates

We make the estimating process as transparent as possible so the client can understand every single cost and its justification. Our Project Controls team is skilled in a variety of estimating techniques, allowing us to establish a total installed cost tailored to your project scope and funding level. C&I’s collaborative approach to project planning and estimating allows us to look at all angles, which improves the accuracy of our estimates.

A core value at C&I is quality: doing the right thing right. We understand establishing an accurate capital budget is the foundation for investment decisions. This why we put so much effort and expertise into our cost estimating services. We help our clients build a portfolio of projects so funding can be allocated appropriately. Several customers rely on our Project Controls group to manage cash flows to facilitate decisions on spending.

Roadmap for Success

Each project benefits from our collaboratively developed, thoroughly documented and diligently executed planning process, no matter the client, size or scope. Our process brings together key stakeholders to diagram, schedule and capture logic between activities developing an executable schedule. When all is said and done, the team has a well-thought-out plan of action.

Planning services are also offered as a separate, stand-alone solution. We help our client’s plan their major capital projects by creating a resource loaded schedule to ensure construction activities can occur within shutdown or outage windows. Our schedulers have the ability to incorporate engineering, construction, and procurement to assist with overall cash flow management. The success of your project is our highest priority.

Our Tools

• PRIMAVERA P6
• Microsoft Project
• Aspen Capital Cost Estimator and In-Plant Cost Estimator
• Primavera Risk
• @Risk

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Innovative Environmental Endeavors

C&I’s commitment to addressing sustainability is realized through our selective partnership with BioProducts, LLC as their exclusive engineering provider. Through their patented processes, agricultural waste streams are converted to profitable and beneficial products while eliminating harmful pollutants. This provides a unique opportunity to better the environment while simultaneously increasing your bottom line.

Working within operating facilities, we have achieved significant energy savings for our clients. Our novel sustainable solutions approach identifies opportunities through process modeling to optimize heat integration and system pressures. This carbon footprint reduction is beneficial to all parties involved, including the local utility company, who often initiates and funds these studies.

Energy Star Certification – Engage a Professional Engineer

C&I Engineering has been engaged in Energy Star Certification efforts through our licensed Professional Engineers. These individuals are responsible for reviewing applications, verifying information, completing the Professional Engineer checklist, and stamping the Statement of Energy Performance. To find out more information about eligibility requirements, click here. Whether you are hoping to improve energy efficiencies, earn EPA recognition, or lower your bottom line, the professionals at C&I are ready and willing to help.

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Equipment selection is a critical component to executing top-notch projects. One of this group’s top priorities is the design and specification of fixed and rotating equipment. Our associates create requisitions and coordinate vendor submittals to ensure not only that the proper equipment is selected but also that the installation process is seamless. Over half of this group has achieved their Professional Engineer license, bringing their extensive familiarity with industry codes to each design. We combine this knowledge with client specifications to ensure we select the proper components for each application. Our Mechanical Engineers deliver an executable construction package, pulling the complete design together through engineering and procurement.

Calculated Solutions

At C&I, our engineers use state-of-the-art tools to perform stress analysis on complex piping systems, ensuring our designs comply with piping codes and are properly supported. Our clients count on our expertise and have called on us during time-critical shutdowns to quickly solve problems and get the system running again. Additionally, this group is versed in firewater system and HVAC design, allowing us to fully support our client’s needs.

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Our flight paths are always pre-planned with a strategic route to ensure we capture an accurate drone imaging scan while complying with federal regulations and safety codes. The Advanced Smart Controller is set to capture thousands of waypoints to optimize maximum efficiency for flight path.

Thermal Imaging

By capturing thousands of thermal UAV images from the air, we are able to apply infrared radiation technology to measure the thermal energy emitted from each component in your facility. Combining this technology with the use of drones, we gain the ability to capture a vast area quickly, as well as examine tall vessels, structures, and hard to reach areas more efficiently.

Targeted thermal imaging of smaller areas from the ground level can be accomplished using a handheld device to capture items including Tanks, Motors, Pumps, Valves, and Heat Exchangers. This non-invasive process keeps operations up and running while maintaining a safety-first approach.

Once we have the thermal drone footage, we can overlay the thermal scan with the RGB scan to create a realistic view of your facility. Viewing RGB and Thermal images side by side enhances the ability to identify problem areas by contrasting temperature differences and finding detailed locations for points of interest.

Thermal Mapping and Analysis

A step beyond multiple still images, thermal mapping compiles images to create a full map of the area. Combining the visual and thermal data allows our team to perform a quantitative analysis of energy lost through unwanted hot spots. Our team incorporates these heat loss findings with the owner’s cost of energy. They can then recommended improvements to yield the highest dollar-per-year savings.

As an added benefit, these scans bring process safety concerns to the surface. They can highlight uninsulated piping or relieving events/relief valve malfunctions shown by hot spots in flare piping. Catching these concerns early protects the environment and supports the safety of your facility and staff.

Applications for Drone Imaging

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