Piping Design, Construction and Mechanical Integrity (ASME B31.3 and API 570)

Piping is designed under one code, built under another set of documents and then inspected under a third, and most of the expensive problems live in the handovers between them. This week follows a line the whole way. It starts with ASME B31.3: fluid service categories, allowable stress, wall thickness, flexibility and supports. It moves into fabrication, examination and testing as they are actually carried out and signed off. It finishes on in service integrity, where API 570 takes over, so a participant leaves understanding not only how a line is designed but what the designer owes the inspector who will be measuring it in ten years.

It runs 7 times over the published calendar, in 6 cities and live online. Every date is the same programme with the same content and the same certificate.

• Classify fluid service, and understand what each category changes.
• Calculate wall thickness and check a line against allowable stress.
• Assess flexibility, and recognise a support arrangement that will cause trouble.
• Specify examination and testing to the level the code requires.
• Hand over a line with the baseline data in service inspection will need.

Piping, mechanical and project engineers, construction and commissioning engineers, QA and QC inspectors, and the plant engineers who inherit the line afterwards.

Short input, then work. Across 5 days of roughly 6 teaching hours each, the balance sits deliberately with the second: a programme where the trainer talks for six hours produces notes rather than capability.

• Your own material

  Exercises run on situations delegates bring, not on a case study written for a different organisation in a different decade.

• A capped cohort

  Small enough that everybody is asked something. Executive programmes are capped tighter still.

• Practice under scrutiny

  The difficult conversation, the challenged assumption, the decision defended out loud. Judgement is not built by watching.

• Something to take back

  Each day ends with a thing you can use on Monday rather than a slide deck you will not reopen.

• Wall thickness and flexibility calculations on a real line.
• An examination and test plan to code.
• A defined handover data set, so the first inspection does not start blind.

A GATI certificate recording what you attended, issued after the programme has run and attendance has been taken. Attending at least 80 per cent of the days earns a certificate of completion; attending less earns a certificate of attendance stating exactly what was attended.

Every certificate carries a code that anybody can check against GATI's own record, which is what makes it worth holding. It records participation. This site will not imply one it does not have.