ENGINEERING
DOLMEN'S ENGINEERING CAPACITY
Dolmen’s EPCM Services provides preliminary, basic, and detailed engineering for entire projects including soil investigation, civil, piping, mechanical, electrical, and refractory engineering as well as automation. conceptual design capabilities align each project’s function, scope, cost, and schedule with client objectives to optimize project success.
The conceptual design phase offers the best opportunity to assess business, commercial and technical risks; and to improve our clients’ return on investment.
All these activities are carried out by modern and state-of-the-art 3D CAD systems. All engineering services are executed in-house at Dolmen’s Services premises with the following software:
- For Plant Design, Mechanical & Piping & Instrumentation, Electrical Engineering Design & Drafting Services: INVENTOR Professional, CADWorks Plant
- For Infrastructure Project Services: Autodesk Civil3D, Netcad Inroads, Storm & Sanitary, Survey Select or Geomedia
- For Structural & Foundation Engineering: SAP2000, ETABS, and SAFE
- For Structural Detailing of Steel & RC & Precast Concrete Structures: Tekla Structures XSteel and RC / PC Module, AllPlan and Advanced Steel
- General Purpose Drafting Software: AutoCAD|REVIT|RHINO|GRASSHOPPER
- For Planning activities: Primavera, MS Project, and BIM
- Final design and planning for obtaining permits and authorizations
- Preparation and follow-up of all the administrative and authorization procedures
- Drawing up tender specifications, contract schemes, product specifications, bill of quantities & budget preparation, and price-lists
- HSE Design
DOLMEN'S DESIGN REVIEW
Dolmen’s Design Reviews Focus on Client Project Requirements. for accurate and timely design reviews. Our company conducts design reviews at key project stages to ensure consistent, efficient focus on the clients’ deliverables throughout the design process, Design reviews for projects include: Constructability, Maintainability, and Operability –CMO Reviews highlight, address, and resolve issues early in the design process for an efficient design and construction process, minimizing overall project cost. Reviews focus on:
- Constructability
The reviews for constructability highlight any construction approach issues in the design to optimize the project’s quality, safety, capital cost, and construction schedule. Maintainability and operability input is provided by the client. Client expectations and requirements are established during the Client Alignment session. - Maintainability
The review for maintainability addresses issues during a project’s design phase associated with completing expected maintenance tasks, including factoring reliability and maintenance considerations into the design basis, establishing processes ensuring minimal impacts associated with maintenance, and pre-start-up maintenance planning. - Operability
This review, similar to maintainability, focuses on minimizing post-startup life-cycle costs of a plant and addresses plant operation, logistics, and support issues during a project’s design phases.
FEED
FRONT END ENGINEERING & DESIGN
Clients rely on Dolmen Ltd UK to adequately define their project requirements before initiating a capital investment. Dolmen’s front-end engineering and design (FEED) teams, with experience, gained providing FEED services to clients in diverse industries and preparing documentation to support clients’ future investments.
Dolmen Development has provided FEED services for thousands of major projects, including first-of-a-kind technologies, world-scale mega projects, and licensor design packages. We have extensive experience preparing lump sum bid packages, as well as reference packages to facilitate completion of work in an expeditious timeframe such as :
- Conduct hazardous operations reviews
- Develop the engineering design packages that can be used to bid a lump sum EPC scope and/or provide the foundation for the detailed engineering phase
- Evaluate options that will improve the return on assets (ROA)
- Prepare cost estimates for scope definition and project funding
- Support internal funding requirements
VALUE ENGINEERING FOR COST SAVING
Value Engineering is a formal, structured process to ensure capital projects meet or exceed cost objectives without compromising project quality. Dolmen’s project teams use value engineering throughout a project, evaluating options with a focus on reducing project capital costs as well as life cycle costs.
The value engineering process divides the total project’s scope of work into components, examining each component for alternatives that offer benefits in the areas of engineering design, equipment, material selection, construction and operations, and maintenance.
It is a structured application of proven techniques, applied at multiple phases of the project, with the primary objective to identify cost reductions, with an established record of success in achieving major cost benefits for clients.
