Design assignment development and state expert review of design documentation in Russia

Abstract

The client of this thesis is an engineering company specializing in planning and managing water, wastewater and environmental technology solutions. The main sphere of operations includes supplies of various treatment equipment and machinery, supervision of its installation, commissioning and training. The point is that every kind of delivered equipment has its own features, which should be taken into account during designing of foundations, supporting and envelope structures, ventilation and different supply systems.

So the goal of this thesis work is to investigate what kind of initial data and initial requirements should be provided by this company to related design departments during project implementation. As far as this process is tied with development of several individual design assignments, it was essential to collect information about the main development stages, content and form of these assignments.

In addition my task was to describe basic principles of state expert review of design documentation, which is performed in order to check the compliance of developed documentation with requirements of Russian legislation and need to be complete before the beginning of construction process.

The main problem during thesis writing was connected with absence of agreed form and way of design assignment development. Its structure is not regulated by any unified document and in practice form is just agreed between different design departments or defined by internal rules of design organization and depends a lot on its design expertise and project specifics. The main information was gathered by summarizing information from the already performed projects and by interviewing several specialists.

Data concerning examination of design documentation was taken from the various regulative documents and from the web-pages of companies, which specialize in customer’s design technical support and preparation of design documentation.

As a result of this thesis scheme of process algorithm of assignment submission procedure has been composed and content of initial data for every particular type of assignment has been described. Also main regulative documents and requirements to the content, structure and appearance of design documentation submitted to state expert review has been specified together with the main stages of state examination and re-examination procedures.