Pre-engineering and Consulting

The foundations of your project are laid in this early phase.

Two engineers work out the pre-engineering phase in a consulting session.

Focused on Project Objectives
Pre Engineering as the Foundation of Good Project Management

In the pre-engineering phase, the basic documents that form the basis for the basic engineering and detail engineering phases are created, e.g. on the basis of a specification sheet. In this way, the concepts of processes, plant design and project execution are created taking into account all project and product risks.

For the pre-engineering phase, customer requirements and legal or approval requirements are coordinated to enable the best possible rough project planning. The aim of the pre-engineering phase is to use process technology to design the most economically suitable solution for the project.

Benefits of the Pre-engineering Phase

The pre-engineering phase provides reliable and objective guidelines for project controlling. In this way, you achieve more planning security and fewer conflicts in basic engineering and can avoid expensive changes in later engineering phases.

In addition, the pre-engineering phase enables you to take site and customer-specific conditions, such as the existing infrastructure, into account at an early stage.

Pre-engineering Phase Services

Depending on the type and complexity of the project and the industry, the engineering phase may include the following work:

  • Situation analyses
  • Process analyses with system determination and critical point identification
  • Identification of the basic parameters and pre-planning
  • Feasibility studies/concept studies/the development of solutions for processes for new constructions and for partial modernisations or changes to existing plants
  • Economic feasibility studies and budget determination
  • Pre-engineering with process selection, drafting the schematic flow diagram, process flow diagram and P&I diagram, rough 2D and/or 3D layout diagram with the main process components and building structures
  • Creation of specification documents
  • Literature search
  • Creation of site standards/site norms and pipe class ratings