The person behind the site
Why a working piping designer decided to build a technical knowledge platform — and what he hopes it becomes.
"Your seniors are retiring. Their knowledge doesn't have to."
That's not just a tagline. It's the reason this site exists.
I've spent seven years as an industrial piping designer, mostly on brownfield and revamp projects in petrochemical and process industries. The majority of that time has been spent learning not from textbooks, but from the people standing next to me on site — veterans with twenty, thirty, forty years of accumulated judgment that you can't get anywhere else.
Most of what they know has never been written down. It lives in their heads, gets transmitted informally across decades, and walks out the door when they retire. The piping community is losing this knowledge faster than it's replacing it.
Pipingpassion.com is a technical reference platform built around the kind of knowledge that doesn't appear in standards. Not ASME B31.3. Not the Nayyar handbook. The stuff you learn by making a mistake in front of someone who's seen it before — and being lucky enough that they explain why.
The field tips section is the heart of it. Short, direct, practical. The brownfield section covers the specific challenges of working in existing plants. The scan-to-model section addresses one of the most underserved areas in piping education. The reference tables give you the data you actually need without having to dig through a hundred-page standard.
The Piping Designer's Companion is the condensed version of everything I've learned and everything I've managed to extract from the people who taught me. 25 chapters, 66 tips, 14 field stories. It's the book I wish I'd had on day one.
The site and the book are two parts of the same project — preserving and transmitting practical piping knowledge for the next generation of designers.
Geoffroy Falot is an industrial piping designer specialising in brownfield and revamp projects in the petrochemical sector. Based in Canada. Currently building pipingpassion.com in parallel with a second book project on brownfield methods.
If you found something useful on this site, or if you're a senior professional with knowledge worth preserving — feel free to reach out on LinkedIn.
"The pipe doesn't care who designed it. But the people who depend on it do."
