Pulp, paper & board
A new line. A different supplier.
- Equipment layouts and tie-ins
- Platforms, supports and maintenance access
Solutions for equipment manufacturers
Engineering for
the work your industry repeats.
Customer variants, replacement components, site changes. We adapt your existing designs into an engineer-reviewed package, with the scope, fee and delivery date agreed up front.
Scope an assignmentWhere we work.
Equipment makers and project teams adapting familiar designs to new requirements.
Energy & process plants
A different duty, feedstock or site.
- Skids, tanks and equipment packages
- Service interfaces and layout changes
Machinery & industrial equipment
The next order needs a variant.
- Frames, mounting points and enclosures
- Replacement components and drawing updates
Typical work to scope in each industry. Methods, source files and reviewers are confirmed for each assignment.
Choose the assignment.
Three kinds of work, each with its scope, fee and delivery date agreed before it starts.
Adapt an existing design
The design your next order needs.
Adapt an existing equipment design to a new requirement. Receive the agreed drawings, model, quantities and check record.
Buy: one scoped design package
Scope & deliverablesFind issues before site
Find the issue while you can fix it.
Review existing designs against agreed rules and interfaces. Receive prioritised findings, evidence and recommended corrections.
Buy: one defined design review
Scope & deliverablesMake your designs reusable
Make the next assignment easier.
Carry accepted rules and decisions into recurring variants and updates. Agree the work and capacity your family needs.
Buy: a scoped family agreement
Scope & deliverablesWe confirm design-family fit, methods, formats and qualified release responsibility before committing to an assignment.
Research behind the approach
Keep decisions connected to the design. Eelon Lappalainen and colleagues’ 2025 study examines how design managers use information to make decisions, and proposes a framework for shared situational awareness. This informs our emphasis on context, review and a traceable record.
Lappalainen et al. · Design managers’ decision-making · 2025 ↗
Exploratory building-design research; not a measurement of Nordform delivery performance.
Eelon Lappalainen · Design is what the project waits for ↗
A working paper on design capacity and industrial project delivery.
Nordform’s published design benchmark ↗
Methods, cases and results for design generation. Benchmark performance is separate from customer cost and delivery outcomes.
Design should move
your project forward.
Less repeated work. Shorter waits. Knowledge you can use again. Start with one assignment and measure the difference.
Lower the cost.
Reuse proven designs and automate repeated tasks. Agree a fixed fee, with changes within the brief included.
Explore the cost of designGet to delivery sooner.
Prepare the design, drawings and checks together, ready for your engineer’s review. Agree the deadline up front.
Scope an assignmentBuild on every design.
Keep the rules, revisions and accepted decisions, so the next assignment starts further ahead.
Reusable design knowledgeA practical place to start
Start with one assignment.
Show us the design, what needs to change and the delivery date. We’ll agree the work, files and price.
Bring us a change