Level Group has added another major operational area to its portfolio: the Project Engineering vertical, which aims to provide consulting services across the engineering segment.
To achieve this, in 2014 it entered into a partnership with GENPRO, a leading engineering firm in the Oil, Gas, Chemicals, and Petrochemicals segment, offering clients integrated solutions for project implementation ranging from business feasibility analysis to investment estimation, design, construction, and assembly stages.
“This partnership is significant because it opens new horizons for both Level and GENPRO, expanding our portfolio of offered services. The industrial market, in turn, gains an integrated solution capable of addressing multiple facets of its projects with cutting-edge technology that genuinely adds value. Especially now, with industry's share of the Brazilian GDP contracting, having solutions that adopt global engineering best practices and yield operating cost reductions—across both CAPEX and OPEX—is strategically vital,” highlights Sergio Miyamoto, Commercial Director at GENPRO.
GENPRO has established itself as a benchmark in the use of design technologies aimed at zero interference during construction and assembly, ensuring adherence to schedule and budget. The primary goal of the partnership is to bring this type of solution to projects where the process's level of technological sophistication is lower.
Over the past decade, the oil and gas market has fostered the adoption of new design technologies, driving the use of 3D models—also known as digital mockups—for project development. This has led to the emergence of professionals who design using this tool, as well as specialists in creating routines to customize software programs to job requirements and in populating databases with information on various mechanical, electrical, electromechanical, civil, and other components, thereby optimizing project performance.
To leverage these tools most effectively, GENPRO—which aims to deliver Value Engineering to its clients through an integrated project vision across all design phases—continuously invests in upskilling its staff. It also maintains a dedicated team tasked with building and maintaining a single database of design elements, accessible by various 3D tools, alongside custom routines for its project teams, both to reduce project lead times and to improve the quality of generated mockups and 2D documents.
Level Group will be able to add value to projects developed in partnership with GENPRO. According to Fernando Di Sora, a partner at the firm, “Level will play a vital role in this alliance due to its expertise in consulting, outsourcing, and Procurement.”
