Means & Methods Engineering Services

Means & Methods Engineering offers a variety of services to meet you where you are on your project, from small cap to mega projects we can help you from front-end planning through construction.

Construction Front-End Planning Services

  • Developing Contract and Labor Strategy: Lump Sum, Time & Materials, EPC, Multi-Prime, Design-Build

  • Construction Schedule and Estimate Inputs

  • Writing the Scope of Work

  • Managing the Bid Process: developing bid packages, Question & Answers, Proposal Reviews, Award Recommendations

    • Build Specialty Contracting Heat Trace, Insulation, Fire Protection and Detection EPC packages

  • Develop Modularization, Fabrication, or Pre-Assemble Plans

  • Design Drawing Review

  • Outage Planning

    • schedule mechanical and electrical tie-ins during outages

  • Define 3D Model requirements for the project

    • use 3D Models as Scope of Work

Lifting, Rigging, and Engineering

  • Design, Review, and Auditing lifting and rigging plans

    • Multi crane picks, rotating vessels, floating material, equipment

  • Perform project crane study and draft site heavy lift plans

  • Temporary monorail and winch system designs

    • general layout, anchor and/or attachment points for winches and rolling blocks

  • Design lifting skids and associated lift points

    • lug and trunnion analysis, skid and frame designs

  • PE/COA licensed to practice in TX, LA, AL, GA, TN, FL, SC, AZ, VA

Constructability Services 

  • Temporary Site Facilities Layout

    • Power, Mechanical

  • Shop Drawing Review:

    • structural steel erection prints, mechanical pipe spools, skid layouts, instrumentation panels

  • Build Work Packages

  • Preventive Maintenance Plan

Tilt-Wall Lift and Brace Design Services

  • Design lifting and brace inserts for tilt-wall panels

  • Deliver Project Specific Lift and Brace Books

  • Perform pre-design phase wall sizing and structural reinforcement based on lifting analysis

  • Means & Methods Engineering holds a COA/PE License in Texas, Louisiana, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, and South Carolina

  • Completed over 600 lift and brace Tilt-Wall panels

Claims and Project Delay Analysis Services

  • Develop Claims and Claim Responses

  • Perform schedule analysis and develop a cost positions

  • Negotiation

  • Construction Warranty Claims

  • Project Documentation Review

  • Experience: 15 years on capital projects and know the in’s and out’s of project documentation. What is important is the “How’s” and “When’s”: HOW do the documents interrelate and WHEN were they transmitted. Contract reviews, schedule updates, daily logs, RFI log, Design Change Notices or the lack of, change management, and invoicing; M&ME has the experience to build, substantiate and rebut claims positions for capital projects.