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Feasibility/Direction (FEL 1)
Scope, alternatives, risks, high-level schedule, and CAPEX with benchmarking and contingency.
MSE Engenharia is an industrial engineering design company: 100+ engineers in Londrina, Brazil, every discipline in BIM and 47 years of experience, from feasibility study to detailed design.
Talk to our engineers →At MSE, architecture and industrial engineering work together from the earliest project phases. This integration enables more precise decisions on layout, flows, systems and costs, creating a reliable technical basis for CAPEX approval, construction and long-term operation.
Some of the projects MSE engineering took from the first study to construction documentation.
Two new industrial buildings integrated into the existing plant, with basic and detailed design of every discipline in BIM, to international pharmaceutical standards.
A factory conceived from scratch on a site with no infrastructure. Every discipline developed in BIM, from master plan to detailed design — and the construction delivered by MSE itself.
Detailed design for the expansion of one of the most modern and efficient terminals in Brazil and Latin America, with access road, yard and gate integrated.
Expansion of the fat and palatant tank farm of one of Brazil's largest pet food producers, with every discipline coordinated in BIM.
A greenfield unit designed from scratch and approved by the city, the fire department, ANVISA and the power and water utilities.
Technical consulting • Design development • Technical feasibility studies • Standards development • Investment estimate • Conceptual, basic and detailed design • Complementary designs
Scope, alternatives, risks, high-level schedule, and CAPEX with benchmarking and contingency.
Layout definition, zoning, production flows, operational requirements, and implementation efficiency.
Consolidated design basis, P&IDs and lists, execution and commissioning plan, CAPEX by packages with quantities, critical quotations, and reduced contingency.
Scenario consolidation, final feasibility, comparison of alternatives, and recommendation to initiate the project.
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Talk to the people who will develop it. Our team of engineers and architects assesses the scope and points to the best path, from feasibility study to detailed design.
When the decision is to build, expand or modernize a plant, engineering must reduce uncertainty, give CAPEX predictability and ensure the investment becomes an efficient operating asset.
Electrical engineer, graduate of the Federal University of Paraná (UFPR). Founded MSE Engenharia in Londrina in 1979 and today chairs the company's Board. 47 years of engineering for industry, infrastructure, pharma and data centers.
MSE is an engineering design company with more than 100 engineers working together, in the same office in Londrina and in the same BIM model. Decisions in one discipline are born coordinated with the others, before reaching the site.
Engineering design is the set of studies, calculations, drawings, and specifications that turns an investment intention into something buildable. Before there is any concrete, structure, or equipment, there is the design — and it determines whether what gets built will fit the planned budget, schedule, and operation.
In industrial practice, design and construction are separate phases with separate responsibilities. The design defines what will be built and how; construction carries it out. When this boundary is well managed, the investment reaches completion with fewer surprises. When it isn't, the cost shows up later in the form of rework, change orders, and delays.
In an industrial project, disciplines must talk to each other from the first line. At MSE, they are all on the same team and in the same BIM model, so what is decided in one is born coordinated with the others.
Layout designed for operation, not just for construction.
The physical foundation of everything that follows.
Power availability is usually the plant's real bottleneck.
Where the promised production capacity becomes a drawing.
Defines how operable the plant will be, not just how buildable.
When the environment is part of the product.
The sequence below is the standard for industrial projects. Each stage reduces uncertainty and adds detail — skipping one doesn't save time; it just pushes the problem downstream.
Determines whether the project makes technical and economic sense. Preliminary scope, alternatives, risks, high-level schedule, and a first CAPEX estimate with contingency. It's the cheapest stage at which to find out that something doesn't add up.
The conceptual design defines the concept: industrial layout, physical arrangements, zoning, production flows and technical assumptions. This is where the essentials are decided — and changes still cost little. After this phase, every change becomes progressively more expensive.
Consolidates preliminary sizing, design reports, technical criteria, and system definitions. It's the document that supports a reliable budget and a realistic schedule, and the basis on which contracts are awarded.
Construction detailing. Drawings, specifications, and documentation at the level construction needs to build without interpretation. A well-executed detailed design reduces the number of decisions made on the job site — historically, the most expensive ones.
Documentation of the facility as actually built, delivered at the end of construction. It may look like red tape, but it's what makes it possible to maintain, expand, and renovate the plant years later without rediscovering what was already known.
Industrial projects are the set of studies, calculations, drawings and specifications that turn an investment intention into a buildable plant. They involve architecture, civil, electrical, mechanical, automation and HVAC, from feasibility study to detailed design.
Engineering design companies with a multidisciplinary team. MSE Engenharia, in Londrina, Brazil, has developed industrial projects since 1979 with more than 100 engineers and every discipline integrated in BIM.
It depends on the size of the plant, the number of disciplines and the level of detail. Design usually represents a small fraction of the total investment and defines most of it, which is why saving on engineering is often the most expensive decision in a project.
Basic design defines what will be done and is used for budgeting and contracting. Detailed design specifies how it will be done and is used for construction.
In most cases, yes. Conceptual design validates layout, flows, and assumptions before detailing begins. Without it, detailing may end up refining the wrong decision.
It depends on the project's size and the number of disciplines. A complete new plant typically takes months from conceptual to detailed design. Expansions and retrofits are faster, but they require an accurate survey of existing conditions.
It's the documentation of what was actually built, which almost always differs from what was designed. Without it, any future expansion starts with a survey from scratch.
New plant, expansion or infrastructure: send us the scope and we take care of assessing it and proposing the best path, from concept to detailed design.
