Technology in our business

We utilize advanced technology to deliver engineering and construction services to our clients. Technology lowers cost, improves schedules and enhances quality. Our clients and associates throughout the world work in urban and remote locations while performing increasingly complex design work. Technology enables them to work collaboratively in virtual environments wherever they are in the world thus maximizing productivity.

For example:

  • Data-centric execution: information is provided in structured data form that enables advanced work process and job-site automation.
  • Integrated application suites bridge the Engineering, Procurement and Construction (EPC) landscape as well as customer operations and maintenance systems.
  • Use of advanced 2D, 3D, and 4D modeling systems and workflows with Cloud-based deployments support the demands of global execution.
  • Highly connected workforce through the use of collaborative web and mobile solutions.

Engineering review of the process and equipment selections assures the technology is right sized and appropriate to meet project objectives. Multi-discipline professional staff provides engineering support during conceptualization, design, construction and operation.

Thermodynamics is built around two laws. The first law is that of conservation of energy. It says that energy used within a system is neither created nor destroyed but is only transferred. The second law describes the process direction. For example, a warm cup of coffee placed on a kitchen table does not become hotter while the room grows colder. Many more examples are possible, but this one conveys the essence of the second law. Energy flows in a direction from high temperature to lower temperature. The second law has at its foundation the concept of the Carnot cycle, which says that the most efficient engine that can be constructed operates with a heat input(QH) at high temperature (TH) and a heat discharge (QL) at low temperature(TL), in which: QH/TH – QL/TL = 0. This equation represents a theoretically ideal engine. In every process known to humans, some energy losses occur. Scientists have defined a property known as entropy (s), which, in its simplest terms, is based on the ratio of heat transfer in a process to the temperature (Q/T). In every process, the overall entropy change (of a system and its surroundings) increases. So, in the real world, the Carnot equation above becomes: QH/TH – QL/TL < 0.