We design the piping modifications of existing installations
From a qualified field reality through to the handover of the project data
Moreau Engineering is a Romanian company founded in 2005 by French partners and run by a French director. We carry out process, piping and structural design for the food and beverage industry, chemicals and biotechnology, together with the site assistance that goes with it.
Our French clients find here three things that distant outsourcing cannot offer: the language, their own standards, and a team that boards the plane when the installation has to be seen.
An existing installation has to be modified. Adding a line, replacing an item of equipment, increasing capacity or reorganising a unit — in an environment already built, in service, and whose documentation no longer quite reflects reality.
An in-house design office is saturated. Two projects overlap, the workload is real but temporary, and nobody wants to recruit for six months.
A documentary record has to be rebuilt. An acquired site, a plant with no as-built dossier, an end-of-works dossier never produced.
A document has a date; an installation has a history, and the two begin to diverge from start-up onwards. We survey the existing plant with a laser scanner, we confront the P&IDs with what the field shows, and then we design against that reference.
Across a set of five of our engineering projects, the gap between the initial estimate and the real need exceeds 50 %. It almost never comes from the drawing: it comes from decisions taken early on an inaccurate representation of the installation.
The deliverables of our engineering
The detail of each document, what it contains and in what form we hand it over.
Process Flow Diagram
The process diagram: main equipment, flows and operating conditions.
P&ID
Equipment, process and utility lines, instrumentation and control loops.
Plant general plan
Site plans and layout drawings of the workshops and the equipment.
Piping plans
Routing and layout of the networks, in 2D and as a 3D model.
Isometrics & bill of materials
The pipe fitter's document: isometric view and bill of materials for the line.
Support installation plans
Design, type and tagging of the supports, with the associated calculation notes.
Metallic structures
Steelwork, walkways and equipment supports related to the installations.
Augmented reality
The 3D model superimposed on the real installation, for reviews on site.
3D scanning and point cloud
Laser survey on site and a usable as-built model.
Describe what you have to modify, the documents you hold even if incomplete, and the deadline. We will tell you where we would start and what we would need to see. This exchange commits you to nothing.
