When facing complex construction processes there are a lot of things that can be done on the front end of your design to ensure you are meeting the proper parameters on those designs. With Victaulic, we have a Virtual Design and Construction group, which is a Building Information Modeling (BIM) group that works to help lay out all the systems.
We also have a Piping Movement Design group within Victaulic that provides the engineering for thermal expansion and seismic movement. With over 20 experts including mechanical engineers, structural engineers and piping designers who help to analyze the system and calculate how much movement will be occurring in the system in terms of thermal expansion or seismic drift. From there, we will provide what the anchor loads are going to be, placement on those anchor loads and then we will optimize the design for movement on that project.
For a lot of mission-critical facilities, there is a lot of growth in those horizontal buildings and so what we are making sure we are doing is we are placing our products in specific areas to accommodate for that movement that is going to occur. Mission-critical facilities require the highest reliability that we can deliver and by doing all of those analytics and working with the installers and contractors we can ensure it is laid out in the proper way to last the designed life of the system.