The Piping Designer's Companion book cover

The Piping
Designer's Companion

by Geoffroy Falot

25
Chapters
66
Field Tips
14
Field Stories
70+
Glossary Terms

45 years of hard-earned wisdom, practical tips, and field-proven knowledge for industrial piping design. Written in the voice of a seasoned mentor — the conversation every junior designer deserves but few ever get.

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$7.99 Kindle
$19.99 Paperback

Every year, seasoned piping designers retire — and decades of hard-earned knowledge walk out the door with them.

This book is a rescue mission.

Written by a working piping designer with seven years of field experience, it captures the collective wisdom of the senior professionals who shaped his career — veterans with twenty, thirty, and over forty years in the trade.

Their lessons, their mistakes, their war stories, and their tricks of the craft are woven together here in the voice of a single seasoned mentor, guiding the reader from first principles to advanced practice.

This is not a textbook. It is a mentorship in book form — the conversation every junior designer deserves but few ever get.

Inside you will find

  • 25 chapters covering every aspect of piping design, from P&IDs to brownfield revamps
  • 66 field-tested tips born from real projects and real mistakes
  • 14 stories from the field that no classroom will ever teach you
  • A complete guide to codes, stress analysis, valves, welding, corrosion, and plant layout
  • The most comprehensive brownfield engineering chapter available to designers today
  • A 70+ term glossary for day-one readiness
"The pipe doesn't care who designed it. But the people who depend on it do."
Chapter 01
Introduction to Piping Design
Chapter 02
Reading P&IDs
Chapter 03
Piping Materials & Specifications
Chapter 04
Codes & Standards Overview
Chapter 05
Plant Layout Fundamentals
Chapter 06
Equipment Layout
Chapter 07
Pipe Routing Principles
Chapter 08
Flanges, Fittings & Valves
Chapter 09
Pipe Supports
Chapter 10
Stress Analysis for Designers
Chapter 11
Thermal Expansion & Flexibility
Chapter 12
Welding for Piping Designers
Chapter 13
Corrosion & Material Selection
Chapter 14
Insulation & Tracing
Chapter 15
Instrumentation & Small-Bore Piping
Chapter 16
Pressure Relief & Safety Systems
Chapter 17
Utilities & Offsite Systems
Chapter 18
3D Modelling & Deliverables
Chapter 19
Model Reviews & Clash Detection
Chapter 20
Construction & Fabrication Support
Chapter 21
Commissioning & Handover
Chapter 22
Brownfield & Revamp Projects
Chapter 23
Scan-to-Model Workflows
Chapter 24
Career Development for Piping Designers
Chapter 25
Glossary & Reference Data

Ready to start?

For junior designers starting out, for intermediates looking to level up, and for seniors who want to make sure that what they know doesn't retire when they do.

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Available in Kindle ($7.99) and Paperback ($19.99)