The design, inspection and maintenance of civil and structural facilities is crucial for the safe operability of industrial assets.
Civil infrastructure as well as equipment needs to be included in an appropriate cycle of inspect–repair–maintain.
The newly launched EEMUA Publication 238 (Edition 1), ‘A guide to civil, structural and building asset management in process, industrial and production environments’, provides a systematic risk-based approach to raise awareness and criticality of civil infrastructure and defines a suitable method to manage civil infrastructure assets.
The guide details how a systematic civil and structural facilities management process based on inspection, asset planning, assigning of roles and responsibilities, determination of asset criticality and conducting risk evaluations, allows civil and structural facilities to be robustly managed. It covers:
• Guidance on likelihood of failure of specific civil and structural infrastructure types
• Guidance on classification of detected defects
• Detailed guidance on degradation mechanisms and consequences for structural integrity
• Guidance on inspection criteria
• Guidance on common requirements for risk assessment.
EEMUA 238 emphasises that proper management of civil infrastructure assets is as important as management of all other assets, equipment and components of an industrial plant.
The guidance in EEMUA 238 has been developed by a working group of senior civil and structural engineers from EEMUA member companies with extensive experience in managing civil infrastructure in the process, industrial and production environments.
EEMUA 238 is available directly from EEMUA.
Employees of EEMUA Member companies can access the publication for free; Associates receive a 50% discount off the non-member price.
