Capability 01 / 06 / Fabricate and install
Industrial pipework fabrication and installation.
Spool fabrication and site installation of process pipework in carbon and stainless steel, small bore up to large diameter, on live plants and new builds.
Most process pipework is two jobs. The spools are fabricated to drawings, in the shop or on site, and then run in to line and level around whatever else is on the plant. KBVI does both with the same crew, so the fabrication is made for the site it is going into and the installation is done by the people who made it.
On Discovery Park in Kent, a new build 27.8MW biomass power station, KBVI prefabricated to drawings, site ran the rest, and stayed two years to work nearly every pipeline in the plant: ammonia, demin water, cooling water, steam, oil, hydraulic and the argon fire suppressant lines. That is the pattern on every job, from a single clarifier pump run to a whole plant.
Contact usMaterials
Carbon steel and stainless steel
Sizes
Small bore up to large diameter
Where
Live plants, new builds and outage windows
Crew
The same people fabricate and install
What we fabricate and install.
- 01Process pipework in carbon and stainless steel
- 02Spools fabricated to drawings, off site or on site
- 03Small bore up to large diameter
- 04Ammonia, demin water and cooling water lines
- 05Steam, oil and hydraulic process pipework
- 06Argon and other suppressant lines
- 07Threaded and welded pipework
- 08Valves, supports and connections to existing plant
How the job runs.
Survey and set out
Read the drawings, walk the site, plan access and set out the runs before anything is cut.
Fabricate
Spools fabricated in carbon or stainless, small bore to large diameter, ready to drop in.
Install
Runs installed to line and level on live sites, working around the other trades, not through them.
Weld and prove
Welded, checked and proven so the plant can be signed off.
Handover
Snag, mark up and hand the system over clean, with the pipework in and proven.
On the record.
The jobs behind this page, with KBVI's own photographs.
Based in Scunthorpe. Mobilised anywhere.
Pipework fabrication and installation from a base in Scunthorpe, with British Steel on the doorstep, across Scunthorpe, Grimsby, Immingham, Hull, Goole, Doncaster, Sheffield and Lincoln, the Humber and Yorkshire, and wherever the job is. Lackenby Works in Middlesbrough, Sheffield, Sandwich in Kent and Hamilton in Bermuda are on the record.
- →Scunthorpe
- →Grimsby
- →Immingham
- →Hull
- →Goole
- →Doncaster
- →Sheffield
- →Lincoln
Straight answers.
What buyers ask about pipework fabrication and installation.
Do you fabricate off site or on site?
Both. Spools are made to drawings where it makes sense, and the rest is run on site. On Discovery Park KBVI prefabricated to drawings and site ran the remainder over two years on the plant.
What sizes do you work in?
Small bore up to large diameter, in carbon and stainless steel. The BOS clarifier job at British Steel was 3 inch and 2.5 inch carbon steel schedule 40 pump pipework; the power station packages ran the full range.
Can you work around a running plant?
Regularly. Much of the work is on live sites, fitted in alongside whoever else is there. On refits KBVI strips out and refits existing plant while the site keeps operating.
What do you need to price a job?
The scope in a sentence or a drawing, the site and when access opens, the programme you are working to, and anything already fabricated or on order. Email the office and the reply comes from the people who price the job and stand on the site.
Also on the list.
Stainless steel pipework and welding
TIG welding on stainless process and cooling lines, including furnace pipework for Rolls-Royce in Sheffield, and hygienic stainless for pharmaceutical and food plant.
Power station process pipework
Full process pipework packages for EPC contractors on power generation projects, from setting out to handover, on the record in Bermuda and Kent.
Plant removal, refit and outage pipework
Stripping out and refitting existing plant on live sites, including clarifier pipework replacement and pipework and valve installation inside a shutdown window at British Steel, Scunthorpe.
Or call the office on 01724 622120 or email office@kbvipipework.co.uk.
Send the drawings.
Get a straight answer.
One email and the pipework starts moving. Your job gets priced by the crew that welds it and stands on the site from first spool to final test.