The key characteristic of a joint industry project is that it is undertaken by a group of companies thus joining strength to accomplish a business goal that no company in its own right could achieve.

Current joint project activities:

• Common Information Handover guide
• Common piping specifications
• Standard data sheets & templates
• Exchange of piping data for procurement
• Unified Pump catalogue for procurement
• Standard Exchange Functional Control Logic Diagram
• Cost Estimating using standard definitions

Common piping specifications
During the Pipes/2 project it was concluded by the workgroup of mechanical contractors that there would be business benefit in creating a common piping component specification library for which a prorotype was devleoped. The advantage of all parties in the supply chain using this common library will be that no longer a multitude of slighty different piping specification need to be maintained by the various plant owners and contractors.
A working group is composed consisting of Plant owners, EPC contractors, equipment suppliers to work out this concept and to give recommendations for a solid project.

Cost estimating using common industry definitions
The efficiency of cost estimating of plant facilities can be significantly improved when using common agreed interantional definitions of equipment. This is being discussed with USPI-NL members. The plan is to make that technique available in a workshop to members and interested companies.