Nobody Will Sign the P&ID

Ask for a P&ID and you will get one. Ask someone to sign it, and the room changes. Why P&ID verification in an operating plant comes before the engineering.
High-Energy Piping Retrofits: Why the As-Built Basis Decides the Outage

On a high-energy piping system, the engineering is rarely the hard part. Stress analysis is a mature discipline. Support design is well understood. Code requirements are written down and unambiguous. Give a competent piping group a correct model of the system and they will give you a correct design. The problem is the word correct. […]