A high qualified staff with over 15 years of experience in supervision and inspection of expansion joints field.
Our high degree of specialization allows us to provide the best knowledge and experience managing designs´ approvals, installation and use of any type of expansion joint.
According to previous studies over 7% of the total cost of a project comes from the design stages. Those costs can be reduced to values close to 1% just making an early detection of those errors. So it will suppose a great saving just working together with experts or consultants in that field during the first phases of the project development.
ITS brings experience and knowledge in the following areas
SCOPE
Supporting the design phases
During the ducts and distribution of expansion joints design phases in order to absorb stresses and loads, many errors usually occur due to the lack of knowledge. Those errors normally cause costly revisions and considerable waste of work time.
It is possible to achieve significant savings in engineering time and to eliminate undesirable costs of reviewing drawings with our highly qualified technical department previous support.
Assemblies supervision
The expansion joints are flexible pieces and they are installed in the final stages of the project, being forced during assembly in order to absorb structure or design deviations. This causes the parts to be fitted in a position preload for which they are not designed, causing premature failures or very low useful life.
An incorrectly installed expansion joint is a potential point of failure, which will cause an undesirable and costly facility shutdown.
Through an inspection program performed by our technicians, you can verify that the expansion joint has been installed exactly as per design given or the deviation is acceptable for the assembly or not. Then, form ITS we will propose solutions to those non assumable deviations.
Facilities inspections
Our technicians move to facilities in order to inspect and verify that, depending on the current needs of the installation, the expansion joints have been properly designed; assembled and their operating lifeis complying with the security range of time.
In order to our customers will be able to prepare and manage their budgets reasonably, our team will prepare pieces status reports, providing them information about timing and pieces lifecycle, giving them enough information to improve their inversion forecast.
Preventive maintenance
According to the state of the expansion joints installed and depending on their work- cycles, our technicians will prepare preventive maintenance programs focused on defining a replacement schedule. On these programs ITS will includea report /forecast of investment trying to help operators to perform their annual budgets, minimizing unplanned downtime due to breakage of equipment.
ACTIVITIES
OUR ACTIVITIES
Engineering services
Collaborating with engineering companies specialized in designing pipping and stress, we provide calculations of stress and revision of pipping installations according to a 360º criteria (design, installation, operation, maintenance, change).
Courses
When the client needs to form specialized teams in expansion joints field, our experts will work to design specific courses towards to their needs.
Supporting Assembleers
The highly qualified ITS staff are especialized in supporting assemblers, providing expertise and experience in order to guarantee the correct expansion joints installation.
Commisioning
During the commisioning or Precommisioning stages, our ITS staff check and test the equipment installed to ensure that it is mounted correctly. Through these prevention actions, we try to minimize the initial problems of startup phases, normally caused by the lack of awareness of this specific area.
Start-up stage
Our technicians move to the facilities implementation in order to advise and provide their knowledge avoiding many potential problems that could happen in those critical moments.
Validation Reports
Among our range of engineering services, we prepare design validation reports, subjecting the pieces to non-destructive tests to verify the supplied pieces will correspond to what was offered and will satisfy the needs identified by the client.
Advising
One of the biggest advantages of working with ITS suppose to having an external qualified consultant working for our clients´ interests. The chosen decisions will be backed up by over 20 years of experience and expertise in expansion joints.
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Water
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