GUIDE LINES TO MINIMUM ESTIMATION FOR A GREENFIELD PROJECT

TOTAL LINES 669

LEVEL 3 LINES 141
LEVEL 2 LINES 273
LEVEL 1 LINES 255
ITEM DESCRIPTION HOURS
TOTAL - GENERAL DOCUMENTS 50
1 Study of Project Specifications and Bid Documents. 10
2 Creation of Stress Design Criteria/Instructions from Bid Documents. 10
3 Listing/Defining Stress Systems from PID / Line List. 0
4 Preparation of Stress Critical Lines List. 20
5 Special Support Design and Index 10
TOTAL - FORMAL CALCULATIONS & VISUAL REVIEW 873.3
6 Stress Analysis and Supporting of Critical Lines (Level 3)/ 6hr Per Line 846
7 Support Markup of Level 2 (semi-Critical) Lines / 0.1hr Per Line 27.3
8 Support Markup of Level 1 (Non-Critical) Lines / 0hr Per Line 0
9 AFC Isometric Stress and Support Review / 0.1hr Per Iso 0
TOTAL OTHERS DOCUMENTS 0
10 Preparation of Detail Stress Reports / 4 hr Per System (if required for a project) 0
11 Spring Data Sheets, Index, TBE / Per Spring (if required) 2
12 Expansion Joint Data Sheet, Index, TBE / Per Joint (if required) 4
13 Sway Braces Data Sheets, Index, TBE / Per Brace (if required) 2
14 Struts Data Sheets, Index, TBE / Per Strut (if required) 2
15 Trunnions Calculations / Per Calculation (if required) 1
TOTAL - SUPERVISION & COORDINATION ACTIVITIES 0
PIPE STRESS WORK ESTIMATE: 923.3

For Estimation for small Projects:

- Minimum Hours per Calculation 15 hours.
- Calculation Difficulty (Easy): 30 Hours.
- Calculation Difficulty (Medium): 60 Hours.
- Calculation Difficulty (Complex) . 90 Hours.
Include some addicinal hours in Brownfield Projects to get information from Recap Model.

Nota: Each Project is different and Pipe Stress Lead is responsable to adjust this recomendations based
on difficulty, and schedule.
hr per line
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0.25 0.08
 Comments
Ref. Juno Project

Ref. Juno Project, 28 formal calculations, hours are adjusted to 1.5 hr instead 4hrs, but minimum hours to do report are 4
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