Becht Engineering is pleased to announce the opening of our Houston Engineering Center office at 14200 Gulf Freeway, Houston, TX complementing our administrative office in Humble, TX. From our new office, Becht offers the services of technical Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) to the refinery, petrochemical, chemical and power industries to the US Gulf Coast and […]
Becht Engineering Acquires Fronek Power Systems The engineering consulting operations of Fronek Power Systems LLC (FPS) (www.fronekpower.com) are now part of Becht Engineering (Becht.com) effective January 26th, 2018. The former FPS staff is now part of Becht Engineering. Frank Fronek will continue to manage the Fronek Piping Group (FPG), a division of Becht Engineering, in […]
Rick Hoffman, Director Mechanical Integrity for Becht, was published in the July/August 2017 edition of the Inspectioneering Journal. Rick’s two blogs concerning Making Bad Actor Elimination Programs Work and Reliability Beliefs – Driving Organizational Accountability (both on this website) were combined into a single, free-standing article. You may view a pdf of the Inspectioneering Journal by clicking HERE. Rick Hoffman joined […]
Below is a listing of recent enhancements to the BechtFFS software, designed to improve the software’s capabilities as well as user experience. In the brittle fracture module, for B31.3 process piping, the user has the option of using the stress basis (Eqn 3.3 in API 579-1/ASME FFS-1) for the longitudinal stresses. Implemented MAWP and minimum […]
The American Association of Engineering Societies (AAES) Board of Directors Nov, 3, 2016 elected J. Robert Sims, 2014-2015 ASME President and Eminent Fellow at Becht Engineering Co., Inc., to the AAES Board of Directors for a three-year term, beginning January 1, 2017. The AAES is a multidisciplinary organization of engineering societies dedicated to advancing the knowledge, […]
Much as an athlete who uses a cross-training approach to develop strength and stamina and improve performance, ASME must embrace an interdisciplinary approach in order to grow and thrive in the coming years, ASME’s new president, J. Robert Sims, observed during his inaugural address at the ASME Annual Meeting in Portland, Ore., earlier this week. […]
Becht Safety Solutions Introduces HIDIR Workshop: Hazard Identified – Intervention Required Becht Safety Solutions is pleased to announce the introduction of the HIDIR risk-identification workshop. In light of recent statistics concerning the demographic of today’s industrial workforce, Becht Safety Solutions has developed the HIDIR program to address the documented risk-identification training gaps existing within the current workforce. HIDIR, which stands […]
Becht’s Heavy LIft Manager, Joe Collins, will be participating as a featured panelist at the upcoming World Crane & Transport Summit (WCTS) to be held November 12 & 13, 2014 in Miami, Florida.. The panel will discuss heavy lifting and transport in the oil and gas sector. Mr. Collins has 40 years experience in the heavy lift industry. […]
For quite some time now, Section VIII Division 1 of the ASME Boiler & Pressure Vessel Code has included the following provision in Appendix 2-15: 2-15 QUALIFICATION OF ASSEMBLY PROCEDURES AND ASSEMBLERS It is recommended that flange joints designed to this Appendix be assembled by qualified procedures and by qualified assemblers. ASME PCC-1 may be […]
A team of Becht engineers, in collaboration with owner/operator personnel, recently completed a successful Risk-Based Inspection (RBI) Assessment and a Turnaround Risk Based Work Selection (TA/RBWS) Assessment for a major complex refinery in the Gulf Coast. These assessments enabled the refinery to closely evaluate a very ambitious work scope for an upcoming turnaround and resulted […]
