Pipeline construction estimating tools

We use cookies on this site to enhance your user experience. Privacy Policy. Pipeline bridges the gap between design and estimation for real-time, automated takeoffs and simplifies the estimation and purchasing with bills of materials for each house. Options-driven changes flow seamlessly through the system, updating construction documents, purchasing and back-office data. Pipeline will pull information from multiple applications and integrate it into one useful information set to drive all processes.

Pipeline is a web-based product that runs as a web application via port 80 on a public-facing server. Imagine that your tower crane is in an emergency and needs a new camera head. Maintenance holes are not always readily accessible. Often they are buried under a layer of asphalt or a few inches of dirt.

A digging bar will help workers break through these obstructions and uncover the maintenance hole lid. Clearing dirt around the opening is an essential step before removing a maintenance hole cover. When you remove the lid, the last thing you want is a mound of dirt pouring into the maintenance hole structure and onto the pipeline trough below.

Shovels have many valuable functions, including uncovering buried maintenance holes and cleaning the maintenance hole ring before lid replacement.

Workers should look into a maintenance hole at the start of any pipeline inspection to determine flow and structural conditions. Because maintenance hole structures can be deep and very dark, flashlights provide workers with the necessary light. With illumination, you can estimate the depth of the design and determine whether you need any special tools or equipment for entry.

If a flashlight is not available, you can use a mirror to reflect sunlight directly into the maintenance hole. You can guarantee one thing with pipeline tools — repairs. In one form or another, repairs need to happen regularly.

Rather than limp back to the yard, you can perform most repairs in the field. A toolkit with tools that match the camera system can mean the difference between a productive day and a wasted day. We recommend inspecting the toolkit regularly to ensure that the right tools are available when needed.

Typically, cost is calculated based on spreads. A Spread is the sub-division of total length of Pipeline; Pipelines of small length may have only one spread, whereas longer pipelines may have several spreads. Base-lay cost is broken down to safety, right-of-way disposition, clearing, grading, stringing, bending, welding, joint coating, trenching, jeeping, lowering, cathodic protection, backfilling, crossings, buoyancy control, NDE, caliper pigging, tie-ins, commissioning, cleanup, reclamation, post mortem, and documentation.

Crew mix of labour, equipment used for construction , and miscellaneous items are developed for each section listed above based on agreed upon shift schedule.