Detailed Engineering Review Services
Delivering Certainty Before Construction Begins
In the industrial, chemical, petrochemical, and oil and gas sectors, the Detailed Engineering phase is the final opportunity to validate design integrity before construction. At Smith & Burgess, our detailed engineering reviews focus on relief and flare systems—ensuring the final design adheres to regulatory standards, engineering best practices, and your specific operational requirements.
Our engineers specialize in reviewing detailed design packages developed by engineering and construction firms. These packages often evolve from earlier FEED stages, and discrepancies may arise. We help clients identify and resolve those deviations to ensure that the final design meets safety, compliance, and operational goals—before it's too late.
Whether your facility is a Greenfield development or a Brownfield upgrade, we provide objective, high-value third-party reviews that help prevent design flaws, rework, and non-compliance during startup and commissioning.
Components of Our Detailed Engineering Reviews
This phase is the last window to make impactful changes before procurement and construction. Owners often discover that design packages submitted by the EPC contractor during detailed engineering no longer reflect the original project scope or internal standards. Our third-party review process ensures that what is constructed reflects the original design intent and meets safety and operational expectations.
A third-party detailed review from Smith & Burgess provides value through:
- Verification of final equipment specifications
- Validation of relief and flare systems for all updated conditions
- Compliance alignment with RAGAGEP and PSI documentation standards
- Elimination of inconsistencies that lead to costly rework
Design Confirmation
Even with a previously reviewed FEED package, design modifications during detailed engineering can create gaps. Our team ensures the final deliverables align with your internal standards, corporate guidelines, and operational expectations.
Our Design Confirmation review includes:
- Identifying changes made since FEED that affect relief and flare system design
- Flagging deviations from owner/operator standards
- Supporting client engineering teams in determining which deviations are acceptable before final equipment orders are placed
Design Validation
Small process changes can lead to significant impacts on relief load calculations and flare system requirements. Our team examines whether modifications to the design are justified, safe, and consistent with system capabilities.
We focus on:
- Conservative assumptions: Identifying unnecessary overdesign that inflates relief or flare system demand
- Consistent assumptions: Ensuring that load cases, utility failure scenarios, and system interactions are logically sound and operationally credible
- Compliance with RAGAGEP: Validating every scenario against recognized engineering practices
This validation helps avoid costly re-sizing, re-piping, and construction delays.
Relief System Documentation Support
Facilities governed by OSHA PSM and EPA RMP standards must maintain complete and accessible Process Safety Information (PSI) before commissioning new units. Engineering firms often provide this information in non-editable formats or in ways that fall short of compliance requirements.
Smith & Burgess addresses this gap by:
- Delivering relief system PSI in editable, facility-ready formats
- Performing complete system reviews to ensure PSI documentation is accurate, comprehensive, and compliant
- Supporting safe startup and inspection readiness with fully documented relief system design records
Streamline Relief System Design with Salus
Salus™ by Smith & Burgess is a purpose-built software platform that modernizes how facilities manage relief and flare system documentation. Designed by engineers for engineers, Salus simplifies complex PSI workflows with tools that enhance visibility, ensure data accuracy, and support facility-wide compliance.
Whether you're updating relief system calculations, managing long-term documentation, or preparing for audits, Salus enables engineering teams to:
- Maintain accurate, editable relief system data in one secure platform
- Reduce documentation errors through intuitive, step-by-step workflows
- Generate PSI deliverables aligned with OSHA PSM and EPA requirements
- Improve collaboration between internal teams and third-party stakeholders