Drawing records management for National Grid Gas
- Client
- National Grid Gas
- PM Group Office
- UK
This framework involves the management of drawing records for National Grid Gas (NGG) which operates and maintains high pressure natural gas pipelines and distribution mains throughout the UK.
The project
The management of drawing records is critical to enabling NGG to successfully operate its gas supply infrastructure and fulfil its obligations.
Through a series of framework contracts, the team (formerly PM Projen) has provided engineering drawing records services to both National Grid Gas Distribution and Transmission since 2002.
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Peter Farrelly
Drawing records management framework
A team of up to 45 engineers, CAD technicians and support personnel have produced or updated over 50,000 drawings all in line with the National Grid’s exacting standards.
Examples include:
- MRPS – Development of a paperless system to support the survey around 14,500km of gas pipework each year.
- Pipeline Surveying System – a highly accurate, efficient, and automated reporting tool.
- NOMAD – Remote Workforce Management System.
- RECON – Pipeline Construction Progress Reporting
- MULTIPIX – interactive photographic site data.
The challenge
Quality always plays a pivotal part of our drawing records management service, to this end we have achieved compliance with a range of industry recognised standards including OHSAS 18001, ISO 9001, ISO14001 as well as specific supply chain standards such as UVDB verify, showing our commitment to providing a service of consistent quality.
This is an ongoing role whereby we continuously provide drawing management services.
The client has access to a large and experienced team of engineers, CAD technicians and support personnel who maintain and update vital drawing records, thus helping the client to ensure that ongoing operations and maintenance functions are able to reference up to date system information.