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to our web site domain. We hope you find it both useful and entertaining.
If you are semi retired or plan to be soon, you should find it especially interesting.
We specialize in helping our Industrial clients with the following:
 | Find new or unused surplus equipment. | |
| Commercial building services. | |
| Engineering and Design and build modular systems packages, (skid packages). | |
| Diagnose and improve production processes. | |
| Provide a pool of engineering and technical talent worldwide. | |
| Construction, and hands on technical services in the San Francisco Bay area. | |
| Establish a presence on the World Wide Web. Includes web page construction, hosting, maintenance, and leads returned to your firm via email. |
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We serve a broad spectrum of industry, and are especially capable in the following technical specialties:
| HVAC and refrigeration. Reciprocating, screw, scroll and cascade systems. | |
| Ammonia and freon systems. CFC licensed. Full range of engineering capability. | |
| Fluid handling. Pumps and packages, including diesel and natural gas engine driven. | |
| Heat exchange. Ultra Low temp. Specialties. Difficult fluids. All types HeatX's. | |
| Ultra Low temperature and cryogenic systems. R-23 low stage, with de-limonene typ. | |
| Cooling towers. Process cooling of all sorts. Rebuilding larger towers nation wide. |
Critical exhaust systems, nuclear, labs, industrial process. Unique air screen applications.
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To assist small companies, with limited resources, so that they might become more successful.
To assist large companies in reducing operating costs, improving quality, and increasing production.
To establish long term, mutually beneficial relationships.
We are a firm with a full time staff of 5 people. We are associated with larger engineering firms, individual engineers, and technicians nation wide.
A brief list of typical clients, and types of projects. Email for client list and individual staff resumes, available to qualified potential clients.
US Postal Service, Northrup Aircraft, General Dynamics. cooling towers
Texas Instruments, IBM, National Semi Conductor. Clean room and subsystems installations, upgrades, engineering and troubleshooting. Includes DI water, UHP piping. Liquid Nitrogen. HVAC etc.
Monsanto Chemical Company, Indo Pacific Fisheries, H.Salt Esq.General Dynamics, Aerojet General Corp
Skid packaged systems engineering and construction. Cryogenics, refrigeration, and explosion proof systems..
Russian / Marathon Oil Consortium, Hudson McDermott, Standard Oil, Enterprise Oil. Various large scale HVAC and process cooling systems, explosion proof. Engineering and skid packages.
US Dept of Energy, 5 sites. Westinghouse, Hanford, Lawrence Livermore Labs, West Valley NY Demonstration project. Engineering services.
Southern California Edison Company, now the Southern Company. Anheuser Busch. Various food processors. Energy saving systems and strategies, training courses.
Engineering services sub contracts for the following firms: Jacobs Engineers, Fluor Daniel, Stone Webster, John Brown, Lester B Knight and Assc. And others.
Aerospace facilities for Boeing Military Airplane, General Dynamics, Northrup Aircraft. Generally sub systems, specialty cooling and HVAC systems, specialty ventilation and exhaust systems.
Pioneered the use of horizontal, high velocity, laminar flow air screens to improve efficiency of slot hoods on boiling acid vats in the electro plating industry. Developed the 'air lens' for long throw low velocity cooling in the movie industry.
Project Management strategy used very successfully on many of these projects is from published article How Projects Fail and what you can do about it.
Quotes from several of our clients
"You were instrumental in helping us get these very challenging projects done, on schedule and on budget" -Texas Instruments
"Your project management workshop was among the best we've attended" -Southern California Edison Company
"The blast freezer systems worked on start-up, and were among the major systems on board to perform flawlessly at sea trials" -Indo Pacific Fisheries Corp, regarding our work on the Hawaiian Princess
Award for Engineering Excellence -Boeing Military Airplane Co.
"Your engineering analysis and research, has shown us how to save over 50% on our process cooling costs, as compared to our current system." -WinCup Corp
"we appreciated your down to earth approach, savings have been impressive, and the results are world class" -Grainger and Associates, regarding a space frame design modular class 100 clean room complex
"Thank you for your significant contributions to particle containment engineering at our facilities" -US Dept of Energy contractor, Westinghouse, Plutonium Finishing Plant, Hanford, Washington
Hello, My name is Philip E Scott, with a few words about how we keep our costs low, and remain able to pass those savings on to you, our potential client.
Briefly, the currently established purchasing tactic involves getting 4 or 5 bids on most projects.
Owners do this, in order that they can obtain the lowest price for the highest quality system.
However the practice has the effect of dramatically running up the overhead costs of the firms doing the bidding ..... and of course these costs must be passed on to your firm, the buyer. Importantly this *includes* the cost of free engineering and bidding work for *other* clients!
Key points!
If every job that was put out to bid got built, then any given firm, on average, would have to bid 5 jobs to land one job.
In actual practice however, many jobs or options are only being considered. But bids are generally requested on these projects as well.
We have seen design build firms bid 50 jobs.......In order to land a single project.
Quoting, or bidding engineering and construction projects, involves quite a lot more than say, getting a quote on pre-manufactured goods, such as an automobile for instance.
Bidding an engineered system typically involves *substantially engineering the project first!
For a small but highly technical project , that can involve hundreds of engineering hours!
This sales and engineering overhead cost. (for all bids produced, not just for the current project ) is then passed on to the *single client* who eventually signs a contract.
This hidden cost of doing business generally increases the project cost by 30 to 50%, as compared to projects we have done, on a signed letter of intent, or on a cost plus basis. The wasted effort is eliminated, saving both our firm and our clients substantially in the process.
Our projects are arranged the basis of a signed letter of intent, this practice eliminates wasted engineering time.
Our client agrees to purchase engineering, systems and equipment though us according to the terms of the letter of intent, at a price that is either well below the market for such services, or on a very favorable hourly rate basis.
This assures that we do not run up our overhead needlessly, and become less competitive in the process. It also insures that the client receives the maximum benefit for the expenditure.
Lets talk about *Your * needs.
Do you have any suggestions or questions regarding our services?
Need a lower cost option on the project you are currently considering?
Need to find new or surplus equipment? Would you like to list your no longer needed equipment?
Do you need to find qualified technical or engineering talent fast?
Would you like a no or low cost web presence or home page, if we do all the work and updates for you.?
Please feel free to email us or telephone at your convenience.
- Telephone: (415) 927-7573
- FAX: (unpublished)
- Postal address:
- 11 Rich St. #145, Greenbrae, Calif. 94904
- Electronic mail:
- General Information: pscott@philscott.net
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