LANL Engineering Standards An Introduction Course 24140 May 2003

1. LANL Engineering StandardsAn IntroductionCourse 24140 May 2003 Tobin Oruch, Eng Standards Manager 505-665-8475, oruch@lanl.gov Facility and Waste Operations Division (FWO) Design Engineering and Construction Services Group LA-UR-03-3240

2. Purpose of Training • Ensure basic familiarity with the LANL Engineering Standards • What are they • Drivers for their use • How to access • Related national standards • How to get help • Processes for deviating from them • Participating in their improvement

3. Related Topics We’ll Cover • Organization of manuals • Relationship to national codes and standards • Requirements vs. guidance • Interpretation and enforcement • Relationship to the Construction Specs • LANL Drafting Manual • Operations and Maintenance Criterion • Revisions underway

4. If You Have Questions, Ask!

5. Introductions • Facility & Waste Operations Division is responsible for the Engineering Standards program • Within FWO, the Design Engineering and Construction Support Group (DECS) • What we do: • LANL’s “Corporate Engineer” • Technical leadership • Subject matter experts • LANL Engineering Standards Program management • Design Engineering • Design/drafting projects • Design reviews of all projects • Construction Support • Management and Inspection

6. Location of FWO-DECS at TA-3-410NW corner of Diamond and Eniwetok (stoplight), just north of CMR Building SM-410 CMR

7. Standards Program Vision • Have the best standards in the DOE complex, • Train all LANL users on them, and • Enforce their use

8. A Few Acronyms I’ll Use Later AE Architect/Engineer firm AHJ Authority Having Jurisdiction – Enforces/interprets Codes & standards (more on this later) CSI Construction Specifications Institute – Nat’l stds for format ESM Engineering Standards Manual HSR Health, Safety, and Rad Protection LEM see ESM LIR Laboratory Implementation Requirement Process & Instrumentation Diagram P&ID POC Point of Contact SME Subject Matter Expert SSS Support Services Subcontractor (KSL, was JCNNM) WSS Work Smart Standards

9. What’s a Standard?Source: ANSI online training course A formal document that defines the characteristics of a product, process or service ...................such as dimensions, safety aspects, and performance requirements • Standards are found everywhere in our daily lives, in manufacturing, construction, quality performance of goods, environmental protection, health, and safety Image courtesy of www.ttdesign.com/images

10. What’s a Code? A standard that is an extensive compilation of provisions covering broad subject matter or that is suitable for adoption into law independently of other codes and standards (NFPA). • New Mexico adopts several engineering-related Codes through legislation, thus giving them the force of law – the NM Electrical, Building, Plumbing , and Mechanical Codes • LANL does the same for the Nat’l Electric Code, International Building Code, and Uniform Plumbing and Mechanical Codes

11. Qualifications of Designers 1. Per NM State Administrative Code: • Architects/Engineers:Plans, specifications, and reports must bear the seal and signature of a currently-registered-in-NM professional arch/engineer in responsible charge. • UC employees need not be PEs for LANL work 2. For electrical design, additional qualifications are established by the Electrical Safety LIR and LIG.

12. Why do we need LANL standards? If they’re PEs, Why Not Just Rely on Architect/Engineers (A/Es) to Design ? • Design organizations need and appreciate consistent guidance and requirements • Design organizations do not necessarily have an “institutional perspective” • In the past the LANL response was sometimes: “We’ll get our in-house crafts to fix it”

13. Need for Codes/Standards in the Facility Life Cycle • DESIGN • Design criteria • Construction specs • Drafting Standards O&M Operation and Maintenance Requirements • CONSTRUCTION • Constr specs • Drafting (as-builts)

14. Solution: The LANL Standards Manuals LANL Engineering Standards • LANL Engineering Standards Manual (ESM) • Was LEM, FEM before that • Design criteria; covers all phases of design • In use since 1992, some mid-80’s • LANL Construction Specifications (LCSM) • For detailed design and construction • 16 Divisions -- CSI MasterFormat • LANL Drafting Manual(DM) • Drafting requirements and guidance Operations & Maintenance Standards • O&M Manual (Criterion) • O&M requirements and guidance

15. The LANL Engineering Standards • Drivers/Requirements for use • Access • Contents • Upkeep process

16. Why do we need LANL Engineering Standards?What Are Some of the Drivers? • Codes and standards in UC contract • Recommended practice guidelines • Environmental factors • Maintenance considerations • Experience and lessons learned • Req’d by a Lab Implementation Requirement (LIR)

17. What are some of the drivers?Codes and Standards in the UC/DOE Contract • Implements DOE/UC Contract Appendix G. It contains: • certain DOE Orders and • the Work Smart Standards (WSS) • WSS includes many Laws, HSR-related Orders, and National Codes & Stds • Some examples: • ANS standards on criticality safety • ANSI standards on lasers, symbols, safety showers, etc. • ASME Boiler and Pressure Vessel Code • ASME Piping codes • IEEE safety standards and codes • NFPA fire and electrical codes • International Building Code (will show up any day now)

18. What are some of the drivers?Recommended Practice Guides – Electrical Examples • IEEE “Color Books” (power systems) • ANSI Standards (equipment application) • FM, UL (equipment application) • IESNA Handbook (lighting systems) • EIA/TIA Standards (telecommunications) • NETA Acceptance Testing Specification

19. What are some of the drivers?Environmental Factors at LANL • High altitude • Low humidity • High soil resistivity • High solar intensity (heat and UV) • Low winter time ambient temperature • Close to water courses • Close to public • Frequent lightning

20. What are some of the drivers?Maintenance Considerations Repair/mod costs at LANL are 2-3x national average (R.S. Means), 10x in rad areas, so….. • Standardized system configurations • Grounding systems • Pressure reducing stations • Facilitate testing of equipment • Transformer Xo bond location • General accessibility of mechanical items • Maintenance worker safety • Door-in-door panelboards

21. What are some of the drivers?Experience & Lessons Learned • Provisions for expansion • 20% spare capacity • Localize electrical interruptions • Minimize radiation damage events • User characteristics • No panelboards in labs • Material characteristics • Restrictions on EMT use outdoors

22. Summary: Drivers for LANL Eng Standards Environment, Safety, and Health and Operations and Maintenance ES&H – provide added safety, implement contract, laws, etc. O&M -- reduce cost long-term • Standardization • Maintainability • Quality

23. Final Driver for Eng Standards Use • Just gotta do it -- LIR220-03-01, Engineering Standards • The LIR: • Establishes the • LANL Engineering Standards Manual (ESM) • LANL Construction Specifications (LCSM), and • LANL Drafting Manual (LDM) • and requires their use for • Design of new facilities • Design of renovations • Maintenance

24. LIR Purpose • Establish requirements supplementing those in DOE Orders; national and DOE codes and standards; and federal, state, and local codes and regulations • Reasons include: • Implement the Orders, Codes, standards, and laws • Add unique site requirements relative to existing national codes and standards • Set forth required methods and procedures for engineering work at LANL • Requirements due to justifiable unique site application or configuration • Incorporate site-specific lessons learned • Revise as needed to keep current with above

25. Endnotes Example

26. ESM to Code RelationshipChapter 7 vs. Nat’l Electrical Code Example The ESM: • Supplements but does not replace the NEC • grounding example • Chooses alternatives in the NEC • conductors and insulation example • Defines NEC terms in LANL context • electrical service points example

27. ESM Scope and Applicabilityper the LIR • Anyone involved in design engineering for LANL • Includes • Subcontracted design agents (required by A/E contracts) • Programmatic work • Such requirements are specifically identified • Consensus of Lab POCs to add any requirements • Excludes • Weapons component design

28. Applicability of New Requirements 90 Day Grace Period • “…notification shall be made to affected organizations…90 days shall be allowed from the date of issuance for the implementation of new requirements. The new requirements shall apply to all new projects initiated after that date…”

29. Applicability of New Req’ts, Con’t Projects Underway • “Shall continue implementation of the requirements contained in the previous revision, unless the responsible Design Authority directs the application of the new requirement. If this is done, it shall be noted as part of the design package documents.” • Design Authority: • The individual appointed by a Division/Program Leader or Facility Manager responsible for the acceptability of engineering work for a given Division, Program, or project. This individual shall be responsible for the acceptability of all laws, DOE Orders, national codes and standards chosen -- and applicable ES requirements -- to the engineering activities in their functional area of responsibility.

30. Definition of “Projects Underway” -- point used for determining the application of new requirements For Major (>$500k), General Plant (GPP), and Line Item Projects: • The beginning of the effort to develop the statement of work for A/E design services All other projects (run by Facility Manager): • The FM’s approval to proceed with final design

31. Personnel Involved in Upkeep • FWO-SEM dedicated standards personnel • Tobin Oruch, Eng Standards Manager • David Chavez, Standards Architect • ESM Discipline Points of Contact (POCs) • The go-to person for each discipline • Chapter Technical Committees • Support the POC, represent broader Lab view, FMs • Call in other Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) • Engineering Standards Board • Oversees ESM upkeep • Group leader-level people from across LANL

32. Tech Committee Process Ch. 7 example

33. ESM Upkeep Process

34. LIR Establishes Authority Having Jurisdiction (AHJ) • Establishes discipline-specific ESM POCs and makes them the AHJ for their discipline’s standards when no other AHJ exists • AHJ for LANL Standards, national codes and standards, etc.

35. ESM Discipline POCs 1. GENERAL • Tobin Oruch is a mechanical engineer with 20 years of experience at DOE facilities. The majority of this time was at DOE’s Savannah River Site where he worked in powerhouses, reactors, and uranium and tritium processing facilities as a maintenance, design, or technical support engineer. More recent work has included procurement engineering, engineering and design management, configuration management, project engineering, and systems engineering. At Los Alamos since 1996, he is a member of the Construction Specifications Institute (CSI) and is currently the FWO Engineering Standards Manager and founder and chairman of the DOE EFCOG Engineering Standards Working Group (665-8475, oruch@lanl.gov). 2. FIRE • Julie Wood is a registered Fire Protection Engineer with more than 14 years of experience in private industry. She worked for four years as a fire protection engineering consultant for nuclear and fossil power plants and manufacturing companies in the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic states. Following that, she spent ten years as the site Fire Protection Engineer for a nuclear power plant in Maryland. She has been at LANL, with FWO-FIRE, since November 2000 (665-8279, jhwood@lanl.gov). 3. CIVIL • Ed Hoth is a registered professional engineer with over 30 years experience in civil engineering design, oversight, and project management. He has served as Project Construction Manager or otherwise managed several NPDES Drain Environmental Corrective Activities projects, the Sanitary Wastewater Systems Consolidation (SWSC) Plant Project, the Safeguards & Security Upgrades Project, and a large variety of smaller projects. Prior to that he performed civil engineering work for the New Mexico State Highway Department, the City of Los Angeles, and an AE at a refinery. He has been at LANL since 1982 and is currently the FWO-Utilities Program Manager for wastewater systems (665-6002, ejhoth@lanl.gov).

36. ESM Discipline POCs, Cont. 4. ARCHITECTURAL • Scott Richardson is a registered architect with over 20 years experience in the design, construction surveillance, and project management of government and private sector contracts. Currently he is with PM-1 Site Planning and Development of the Project Management Division where he is the lead architect for the development of LANL Comprehensive Site Plans (665-5078, scr@lanl.gov). 5. STRUCTURAL • Mike Salmon is a registered professional engineer with more than 15 years of experience in the design of civil structures and mechanical anchorage for commercial, industrial, institutional, and nuclear facilities. His specialty is in earthquake engineering where he has developed walkdown evaluation criteria to be used in Department of Energy Facilities. He has instructed others on the use of walkdown criteria, and in the analysis of civil structures subjected to earthquake ground motion. He has served as the subject matter expert for seismic/structural engineering on a number of highly visible LANL projects. In his current position as FWO DE&CS Civil/Structural/Arch Team Leader, Michael is heavily involved in the Los Alamos Seismic Studies project (Larry Goen, Program Manager) as the lead analyst for structural issues. He serves as a member of the ASCE dynamic analysis of nuclear structures committee, and is actively participating in earthquake engineering research. He has been at Los Alamos since 1998 (665-7244, salmon@lanl.gov). 6. MECHANICAL • Gurinder Grewal is a registered mechanical engineer with over 30 years of experience in management and technical coordination, performing multi-discipline technical studies and designing complex nuclear confinement ventilation systems on several DOE nuclear projects. He is experienced in developing design criteria, systems requirements, system descriptions, safety analysis reports, conceptual designs, and cost estimates for non-reactor nuclear facilities including plutonium processing, handling and storage facilities. This experience includes conceptualization and design of the HVAC systems, heating water, and chilled water systems, preparation of specifications, capital cost estimates, review of vendor submittals, the system start-up and balancing, and performing special studies for nuclear facilities, industrial facilities, laboratories, and commercial facilities. He has been Lead HVAC Engineer and Project Engineer on several DOE projects during conceptual design, preliminary design, and engineering support during construction. He has working knowledge of the DOE General Design Criteria 6430.1A Divisions 1, 11, 13, and 15; ASME Standards N509 and N510; and ASME Code AG-1. He is currently FWO Design Engineering & Construction Services Acting Group Leader (667-3667, grewal@lanl.gov).

37. ESM Discipline POCs, Cont. 7. ELECTRICAL • David Powell is a registered professional engineer with over 30 years of experience in the design of electrical power, lighting, and communications systems for commercial, industrial, institutional, and utility facilities. In his current position he consults with LANL users to ascertain system requirements then prepares electrical design criteria, A/E scope of work statements, and design-build performance specifications. He reviews the A/E design and contractor installation of electrical systems to assure compliance with codes, standards, and contract documents. He is also a member and past chairman of the LANL Electrical Safety Committee that serves as the LANL electrical authority having jurisdiction, and is acting FWO DE&CS Electrical Team Leader (667-3217, dpowell@lanl.gov). 8. INSTRUMENTATION AND CONTROL • Mel Burnett is a registered professional engineer with over 20 years experience including with electronic and pneumatic controls, process-controller programming, energy-systems simulation, and system commissioning. Other work experiences include preventive maintenance, predictive maintenance, systems operation, design, design review, root-cause analysis, training, industrial safety, hazard analysis, configuration control, occurrence reporting, environmental compliance, turbine-generator overhauls, precision alignment of rotating equipment, DOE orders, NFPA, UMC, UBC, OSHA, and ASME codes. He is currently the FWO DE&CS I&C Project Leader (667-1562, melb@lanl.gov). 9. SECURITY • TBD. Cam Campbell, S-2 is Security and Safeguards Division’s lead for development (665-8544, ccam@lanl.gov). 10. NUCLEAR AND HAZARDOUS PROCESS SAFETY • Tobin Oruch/Mel Burnett (see above) RADIATION PROTECTION • Bill Eisele, HSR-12 (667-5297, weisele@lanl.gov)

38. POC Contact Info

39. ESM Upkeep Process • Helping the User • Clarifications and Interpretations, • Alternate Methods, and • Variances, and Exceptions • User’s Improvement Suggestions

40. Eng Standards Access LANL Internal Homepage External

41. Logistical Issues Question The Standards are online. Why not teach course on computers? Answer • Would be major scheduling problem • Computer classrooms are few • Special sessions are taught away from White Rock • People use computers at different speeds, so doing this online would take all day • Computers are good for teaching software skills; this is just navigating simple webpages (“surfing”)

42. Logistical Issues, Con’t Question Why aren’t handouts larger size? I can’t read everything on them. Answer I don’t want people using the website snapshots to do work by • I want people to use the website • All website URLs are large enough to read

43. External/Internal: http://www.lanl.gov/f6stds/pubf6stds/xternhome.html Homepage Click here for Universe Link

44. National Standards Online “Universe” webpage -- very useful links

45. National Standards webpage-- Many Online for LANL, available on LANL network (incl. Library computers) IEEE

46. Once in IHS, choose Specs & Stds (or B&PV Code)TDX allows you to buy things we don’t normally get

47. How to SearchBasic org in second field if desired; don’t use ANSI/ASME, etc.

48. Choose ACTV line usually; button is red if we get it

49. Remember to LOGOUT as soon as you’re done!!!

50. Hardcopy locations index Back to “Universe” webpage