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Standards Update – Sept 2018
Here’s the latest on the AS 2885 revisions status:
Part 0 (General Requirements): this is with the Main Committee for balloting; which is due at the end of the month. Targeting publication for use by late October.
Part 1 (Design and Construction) and Part 6 (Pipeline Safety Management): these are also with the Main Committee for balloting; which is due at the end of the month. Targeting publication for use by late October.
Part 2 (Welding): {no change since last month} this is currently going back and forth between Standards and the drafting lead, and it is getting close for a release for public comment. Stay tuned; maybe in a couple of months.
Part 3 (Operations and Maintenance): {no change since last month} this is still with the subcommittee for finalisation to be handed over for editing and styling. Public comment is probably late 2018, maybe early 2019.
Part 5 (Pressure Testing): this subcommittee had another meeting this week, and is progressing towards the March 2019 handover to Standards for styling/editing. Publication estimated by late 2019.
Author Susan JaquesPosted on September 19, 2018 Categories StandardsLeave a comment on Standards Update – Sept 2018
Standards Update – August 2018
We’re heading into another phase with the AS 2885 suite of Standards.
I can finally see the finish line for the notorious Parts 0, 1 and 6… and at the same time, we have Parts 2, 3 and 5 getting ready to pick up the revision baton…
Part 0 (General Requirements): the subcommittee is meeting on Wednesday August 15th to review public comments, of which there were 44 and none of them show-stoppers.
Part 1 (Design and Construction) and Part 6 (Pipeline Safety Management): the subcommittee is meeting Thurs/Fri August 16/17th to review public comments, of which there were about 100 on each, but most of them are editorial. A few technical issues have been brought up, which will be briefly discussed at the subcommittee meeting, and then scheduled in for the next revision, because we are too close to publication to introduce new technical items now.
The target is to publish Parts 0, 1 and 6 at the same time. Current forecast has publishing in mid-October 2018.
Part 2 (Welding): this is currently going back and forth between Standards and the drafting lead, and it is getting close for a release for public comment. Stay tuned; maybe in a couple of months.
Part 3 (Operations and Maintenance): this is still with the subcommittee for finalisation to be handed over for editing and styling. Public comment is probably late 2018.
Part 5 (Pressure Testing): the subcommittee had its second official meeting last week, and is progressing fairly well, given that work was started on this revision unofficially (outside of Standards Australia scheduling) in mid 2016. I can see that getting the wording right for this one will be an ongoing challenge. The schedule has this one going to Standards for editing and styling by March 2019, and publication by November 2019.
Below is the status in pictures.
Author Susan JaquesPosted on August 13, 2018 August 13, 2018 Categories StandardsLeave a comment on Standards Update – August 2018
It’s been a long time since the last Standards update. Unfortunately, there’s not much to report.
AS 2885.0 (General Requirements) is with Standards for ‘styling and editing’. We are hopeful of having this revision out for public comment in the next few weeks.
AS 2885.1 (Design and Construction) and AS 2885.6 (Pipeline Safety Management) are with Standards editing as well. These will be out for another short public comment following directly after Part 0, probably by June. I dislike making promises here…
AS 2885.2 (Welding) revision is also with Standards for its first go-round of editing. It may be out for public comment by July.
AS 2885.3 (Operations and Maintenance) is with the Part 3 subcommittee for final drafting before going to Standards for editing. Maybe August for public comment?
AS 2885.5 (Pressure Testing) has nominated its subcommittee and will be having a kickoff meeting soon to get that revision underway. Realistically, Part 5 won’t be published until 2019.
AS 4822 (Field Joint Coating) had Public Comment over the year end break, which closed in January. It’s been with Standards for several months and should be published any day now.
AS 3862 (FBE Coating) is convening a kickoff meeting this week, and will be revised to include dual layer FBE.
This is a bit of art on the riverside near the Jazz Club in Brisbane. I like it, and it happens to be made up of several elbows and reducers, flanged or welded together, with a boat propeller at the end. I wonder what Standard this one was built to.
Author Susan JaquesPosted on April 3, 2018 April 2, 2018 Categories StandardsLeave a comment on Nothing to report
Standards Update – Feb 2018
The ME-038 Main Committee met this week for our annual get-together to review and upgrade our strategies and coordinated approaches to our Portfolio of Standards, which includes the AS 2885 series, AS 4822 and AS 3862. It was a lively and productive meeting, with most of the committee members in attendance.
If all goes well, we anticipate:
AS 4822-2018 Publish – May 2018
AS 2885.0 – Public Comment – commencing in March / Publish in July 2018
AS 2885.1/.6 – second Public Comment – commencing in March / Publish in July 2018
AS 2885.3 – Public Comment – commencing in June / Publish in October 2018
AS 2885.2 and AS 2885.5 – awaiting next committee meetings to confirm timeframe for public comment and publication.
Other topics covered at our meeting included:
Defined Terms: moving them all to Part 0 – this will be a staged approach but all common terms will be moved for this year’s publication. This means that you’ll need Part 0 (which you should have anyway), even if you think you haven’t needed it before.
Response to comments received: it’s not a Standards Australia requirement to advise commenters of their resolution, but we are trying to find a way to overcome this, even if in generalities a response, especially those topics that received a lot of feedback.
AS 2885 series – there was a strategy discussion around our portfolio and the AS 2885 series becoming very large and unwieldy, and containing a lot of ‘guidance’ rather than sticking to requirements. Interestingly, it was also observed that a performance-based Standard with fewer requirements (not being a recipe book, like ours isn’t), you tend to need more guidance and therefore they tend to be longer and more dense than ‘cookbook’ standards. We discussed whether the guidance should be moved into another document, or kept as is amongst the requirements text. Currently this is unresolved but being contemplated amongst the committee. A good point is that if you need the guidance to get it right, well you’ll need the guidance right there beside you anyway, so it may as well be part of the Standard.
Separately, on Thursday, I went to the Standards’ organisation ‘national update meeting’. Mostly the purpose of the session was to explain the process of Standards’ writing, which I’m already pretty familiar with.
Standards is launching a new ‘working area’ called “Incubator” which is attempting to be a place to ‘think outside the square’ for Standards development – recognising that we need to get away from ‘dumb pdfs’ and move to ‘smart info’ instead.
It’s encouraging – one example shown (for the user of a published Standard, rather than for development of the Standard) was a visual for waterproofing requirements, with hyperlinks to specific clauses. Promising!
Currently there’s not much on the website, but I imagine that will change as they develop.
Author Susan JaquesPosted on February 22, 2018 Categories StandardsLeave a comment on Standards Update – Feb 2018