What is PIP?

PIP – Process Industry Practices – is a member consortium of process industry owners and engineering construction contractors.

Members collaborate to harmonize internal company standards and ‘best practices” around design, procurement, construction, and maintenance into industry wide PIP Practices for member use.

PIP Practices are on a 5-year revision cycle and are written and maintained by members on discipline teams.

Pipe Material Specifications:

While the PIP Pipe Material Specifications address 70-80% of project purchase needs, the identification of components (gaskets, valves, filters, filter housings, specialty items, etc.) often require specification for purchase prior to submittal approval.

Purchasing level detail for components does not typically exist in an industry standard; in fact, component catalogs rarely remain the same from one project to the next.

• In addition to addenda for PIP Practices, my service includes creation of a customized valve and specialty items catalog which identifies:
  • the component specified (make/model)
  • the manufacturer’s specific catalog number and page number
  • a cross-reference code for each Pipe Material Specification in which that specific valve or specialty item are utilized

As an independent engineering expert, I provide these addenda (and other related documents/specifications) at a fraction of the cost large engineering firms charge.