Society of Piping Engineers and Designers

02/08/2025

https://youtu.be/QA_sFhhcigU

SPED talks with GV Ranjan of SSTUSA about their checkSTRESS software. SSTUSA are also the creators of CAEPIPE.

01/31/2025

SPED Zoom Interview With Rick Carell

Watch SPED's interview about the early days of 3D CAD for piping and plant design with Rick Carell here:

The history of 3D CAD software for piping and plant design with Rick Carell

03/04/2024

Photos from Javier's trip to Houston

01/26/2024

Vice president of the Society of Piping Engineers and Designers, Javier Rubio, had a meeting with Giles Hartill, the 138th President of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers in the United Kingdom. The meeting took place in Malta, Europe, where avenues for collaboration between both organizations were explored.

06/19/2023

Overview of jacketed piping with stress engineer Michele di Sclafani is uploaded to SPED's YouTube site at

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I2hxTYECbYg

(corrected video)

SPED Jacketed Piping Overview 17 with piping stress engineer Michele Di Sclafani (corrected video)

06/03/2023

Interview with Sean Moran on 23 May 2023

SPED talks with chemical engineer and author Dr Sean Moran

05/10/2023

SPED Zoom Interview - Michele Di Sclafani - Jacketed Piping

Join SPED Saturday June 17, 2023 11:00 AM North America Eastern Time for this event.

Michele Di Sclafani, after graduating in 2004 from Milan Polytechnic in Mechanical Engineering, has been working in Saipem S.p.A. as a Piping Stress Engineer and has gained experience in the design and analysis of different piping systems in petrochemical and fertilizer plants.

"Jacketed piping systems feature a core pipe surrounded by a jacket pipe. The process fluid flows through the core pipe, while a heating/cooling medium flows in the annular space between the core and jacket pipes. This training session will introduce an overview of the various types of these piping systems, the peculiarities of their design and construction, as well as their critical issues and pitfalls."

For more information contact

[email protected]

05/08/2023

SPED Zoom Interview - Engineer and Author Dr. Sean Moran

Join SPED Wednesday May 24, 2023 11:00 AM North America Eastern Time for this event.

Sean Moran is a chemical engineer with more than thirty years of experience as a process plant designer and troubleshooter. He is the author of a number of practical books and articles on process plant layout and design, as well as a dictionary of chemical engineering practice. He is about to start writing the third edition of his book "Process Plant Layout".

SPED members contact [email protected] to sign-up for this event.

05/08/2023

SPED Live Piper Zoom Chat

Join SPED Saturday May 13, 2023 12:00 PM (noon) North America Eastern Time for this event.

Meet some of the SPED directors and management and discuss the business of piping design and layout.

SPED members contact [email protected] to sign-up for this event.

03/02/2023

ScanSap point cloud navigation and management software demo from 01 March 2023 is uploaded to the SPED YouTube Channel:

SPED Software Review and Short Demo Webinar - ScanSap for Point Clouds

02/07/2023

https://youtu.be/AdSfDOnU18g

Video now uploaded to SPED's YouTube channel.

02/07/2023

ScanSap Live Webinar Demo, 22 February 2023 - Noon North America Eastern Time

"Working with Point Clouds"

Properly scanned and registered point clouds are a huge brownfield project resource but can be challenging to use due to file sizes and the possibility of human error in interpreting and transpositioning as-built data from point cloud to 3D model.

If you use point clouds to extact data from laser scans, ScanSap is worth looking at as a solution for navigation and manipulation of point clouds as well as semi-automatic detection of scanned elements in the cloud (existing piping, for example).

"Use ScanSap to quickly clip areas of the point cloud and export them as separate Autodesk Recap files. The workflow is extremely fast."

For further information please contact [email protected]