Design new or replacement gas systems, installations and components for industrial and commercial properties and leisure accommodation
URN: EUSICG1
Business Sectors (Suites): Industrial and Commercial Gas Utilisation
Developed by: Energy & Utility Skills
Approved on:
30 Mar 2020
Overview
This standard is about designing new or replacement gas systems, installations and components for industrial or commercial properties or leisure accommodation. It is for the non-residential part of the downstream gas industry. It can apply to gas systems, installations and components for any type of fuel gas or combinations of fuel gas.
It includes interpreting job requirements, identifying conflicting issues, carrying out design calculations, complying with statutory, industry and manufacturers’ standards presenting design options and agreeing and documenting final designs.
This standard is for those designing new or replacement gas systems in non-residential downstream, industrial or commercial properties or leisure accommodation.
Performance criteria
You must be able to:
1. identify and record customers’ job requirements from relevant sources of information
2. identify any conflicting issues between customers’ job requirements and statutory, industry and manufacturers’ standards
3. identify any key structural features that could affect designs
4. ensure that proposed siting of system components meet manufacturers’ and industry standards’
5. confirm that new or existing fuel gas services are available and suitable
6. confirm and verify that proposed gas systems, installations and components will not conflict with other existing or proposed electrical, water or ventilation systems
7. carry out design calculations to determine gas system components that take account of the volume of gas required
8. design gas systems, installations and components to meet key design requirements
9. check that designs are in compliance with statutory, industry and manufacturers’ standards
10. prepare a range of design options to meet both customer and industry requirements
11. present design options to customers in sufficient detail for them to be able to assess them
12. suggest and agree viable alternatives with customers when their job requirements cannot be met
13. obtain and record agreement to design options that best meet all requirements
14. document agreed designs in sufficient detail for them to be installed by others
Knowledge and Understanding
You need to know and understand:
1. regulations and guidance governing health and safety in the workplace, environmental protection and the use of risk assessments
2. legislation covering the general responsibilities of the operative for their own safety and that of others
3. site considerations including transport, movement and positioning of components on site, safe accessibility to work activities, working at heights, or in confined spaces
4. construction materials and methods for installation of gas systems, installations and components
5. methods of working which protect the building, customer property, new and existing systems and components
6. how to survey work sites
7. how to read and interpret site diagrams
8. how to confirm the suitability and availability of new or existing gas input services
9. the implications on designs of dual fuel gas systems
10. sources of information about other electrical, water or ventilation systems that may have an impact on gas system, installations and components including electricity, water, waste water, ventilation, flue/extraction systems and fresh air systems
11. where to access and how to interpret required information including statutory and normative documents, industry standards, guidance documents and manufacturers’ instructions.
12. how to ensure design proposals for gas systems, installations and components meet all required industry standards
13. the impact of local and regional gas pressure on system, installation and component design
14. the range and operation of gas systems, installations and components
15. how to design new and replacement gas systems, installations and components
16. how to use information technology to produce drawings and specifications
17. how to present design options to customers including written, oral, electronic and drawings
18. forms of recording customer agreement
Scope/range
Scope Performance
Scope Knowledge
Values
Behaviours
Skills
Glossary
Links To Other NOS
External Links
Version Number
2
Indicative Review Date
30 Mar 2025
Validity
Current
Status
Original
Originating Organisation
Energy & Utility Skills
Original URN
EUSICG1
Relevant Occupations
Building and Civil Engineering Technicians, Design and Development Engineers, Electrical Engineer, Engineering Professionals, Engineering Technicians, Heating and Ventilating Engineer, Mechanical Engineer, Plumbers, Planning and Quality Control Engineers
SOC Code
5223
Keywords
Design; new; replacement; gas; systems; installations; components, industrial; commercial; leisure accommodation; non-residential, downstream; designs; design calculations;