Fabric Maintenance Multi-disciplined Teams

Project Overview

Altrad were contracted to provide engineering, maintenance and modification workscopes for a major North Sea Operator, across all North Sea Assets and downstream businesses.  

This included project management, turnarounds, mechanical, electrical, instrumentation & rigging, fabrication, access, insulation, coatings and asbestos handling.

The Support

Ensuring reliability and maintenance objectives, Altrad supported the reduction of downtime, overdue maintenance and risk for the client with our integrated range of services and the use of multi-disciplined teams.

The Solution

Altrad specialise in providing multi-discipline teams. Combined with a breadth of in-house capabilities and fully integrated service offering, Altrad delivered increased flexibility and productivity throughout the contract, by adapting the service offering to provide a truly multi-discipline approach for all services.

Traditionally, teams included three scaffolders, three painters, two riggers and two RAT. However, Altrad’s multi-discipline approach focused on cross training to reduce team size. Where a team of eight was traditionally used, Altrad’s multi-disciplined teams of four not only provided a dedicated team with full site familiarisation but it also resulted in cost savings for the client whilst maintaining Altrad’s safety approach.

Altrad’s approach reduced the requirement for multiple interfaces and subcontractors calling on support functions from the wider Altrad organisation and allowed more scopes to be completed reducing the maintenance backlog.

The Benefits

Altrad’s tailored solution was adapted across all services and using integrated, multidisciplined teams, value was added throughout the workscopes by:

• Improving safety with a defined and measurable approach
• Increasing flexibility, productivity and accuracy
• Increasing efficiency
• Reducing costs
• Reducing down-time
• Reducing POB