Engineering Services

NUKEM has extensive engineering design resource within its major offices at Risley, Harwell, Dounreay, Winfrith and Westlakes. Over 25% of our design engineers hold chartered status.

We offer comprehensive design capabilities in the following fields:

• Architecture
• Civil and structural engineering
• Mechanical engineering
• Process engineering
• Control and instrumentation
• Electrical engineering
• Heating and ventilation

We are also able to provide a comprehensive range of Project Services, including planning, cost estimating, cost control and inspection.

Our multi-disciplinary design teams use industry-standard CAD systems to provide a complete and cost effective design service.

Our integrated management team structure enables staff to undertake work packages from small, single discipline tasks to complete design and build projects.

What we offer

Extensive experience and expertise in the design of:

• Nuclear operations buildings
• Nuclear ventilation plant
• Plant for operation in radioactive and hazardous environments
• Shielded facilities, containment systems and associated equipment and services
• Treatment plants for solid and liquid active waste
• Equipment and services for shielded and containment facilities
• Active waste retrieval, storage and handling equipment and packaging
• Remote handling decommissioning equipment
• Equipment to support decommissioning operations including:
• Nuclear materials transport flasks
• Pressure Systems
• Lifting equipment
• Automated and robotic active handling systems
• Reactor test rigs
• Pressure vessels to PD5500

• Option Studies
• Scheme design
• Development of processes and specifications
• Seismic Design using STRAP, ABAQUS & ANSYS software
• Engineering Substantiation
• Computer Aided Design (CAD)
• Safety Justification
• Management and support services including:
• Project management
• Quality assurance and inspection
• Project Cost Estimation

Benefits

• Integrated multi-disciplinary teams enable effective delivery of projects of any size and complexity.
• Compliance with all relevant national and international regulations, safety standards and codes of practice.
• Our teams can draw on a range of technical capabilities from across the NUKEM Group.
• We specialise in providing innovative design solutions to complex problems.

More on NUKEM's Engineering capabilities

Design & Build
Operations, Maintenance & Refurbishment