Train Where
Real Engineers
Work.
Take a seat on a live oil and gas project. You hold a discipline, the register hands you your deliverables, and an engineer reviews every one before it is approved. You leave with the drawings, not a certificate of attendance.
Process · Structural · Piping · Civil · Instrument · Electrical · Procurement · HSE
Inside the office
What you actually do here
Not modules to complete. A register of deliverables with your name against them, and a reviewer waiting for each one.
A seat on a live project
You hold one discipline for the length of the job. The deliverables carrying your discipline code land on your register with numbers, revisions and dates, and you issue them for review the way the project requires.
The whole job, not a slice
The project runs from FEED deliverables through HAZID and HAZOP, requisitions and bid evaluation, into site queries, punch lists and commissioning. You see how a decision on a P&ID in week one shows up as a punch item at the end.
Someone senior marks your work
A facilitator reviews each submission and returns comments against the document, not a score. Live sessions, a curated library and an AI mentor that knows your role and your open comments sit beside the work while you fix it.
Disciplines Covered
The Virtual Design Office
An engineering office that happens to be
where you learn
A brownfield gas metering and pressure reduction skid tie-in, run end to end the way a real EPC runs one. You hold a discipline, you carry deliverables on the register, and your work is reviewed by an engineer before it is approved.
Why a project and not a course
Graduates arrive knowing the theory and stall on the practice. They have never seen a Master Deliverable Register, never issued a document for review, never had a lead return a drawing with fourteen comments on it, and never had to close those comments out before Friday.
None of that is difficult. It is simply unfamiliar, and it is what the first six months on a real project quietly test. The office removes the surprise by making those six months the training itself.
Nothing here is a mock-up. The registers, numbering, revision codes, review cycles and handover packs are the ones used on site, because a simulation that simplifies them would be teaching a thing that does not exist.
What you leave with
A portfolio of approved deliverables carrying your name and their revision history, a handover pack for the project, and a verifiable certificate. Work an interviewer can open, rather than a course you can name.
You are on a team
Process, piping, mechanical, electrical, instrumentation, civil, HSE, document control and project management, all working the same project at once.
Your line list is somebody else's input. Their P&ID revision changes your datasheet. Interfaces are the lesson.
A week in the office
- MondayKick-off and scopeThe project team meets, the register is walked through, and each discipline confirms what it owes and by when.
- MidweekProductionYou work your deliverables — datasheets, drawings, calculations, registers — against the project specification, with the AI mentor and the library beside you.
- ThursdaySquad checkDocuments go out for interdisciplinary review. You comment on other disciplines' work and answer comments on yours.
- FridayIssue and progressRevisions are issued, the register advances, and progress is measured on deliverables completed rather than hours attended.
What the office runs on
Master Deliverable Register
Numbered documents, revision codes, issue status, due dates — the spine of the project
Interdisciplinary review
Squad checks and comment sheets, raised and closed out against each revision
Live sessions
Kick-offs, HAZOP and model reviews, and technical queries answered by facilitators
AI mentor
Knows your role, your deliverables and the comments on your work, and answers in that context
How the office works
A project, not a syllabus
Everyone in the office is working on the same live project from a different discipline, exactly as an engineering team does. Here is what that means for your day.
You are given a role and a register
Junior process engineer, piping designer, document controller — one discipline, the way a real project assigns them. Your deliverables appear on the project's Master Deliverable Register with numbers, revisions and due dates, and the ones carrying your discipline code are yours.
You issue work and it comes back marked
You produce the document, issue it for review, and a facilitator returns it with comments against the drawing — not a grade. You revise, you resubmit, the revision advances. That loop is the job, and it is the part no course teaches.
You leave with the evidence
Approved deliverables collect into a portfolio with your name and revision history on them, and a handover pack at the end of the project. It is the thing an interviewer can open, rather than a certificate saying you attended.
The seats in the office
Pick the discipline you want to be hired into
You hold one seat for the length of the project, and the register hands you the deliverables that belong to it. Every seat below is filled on the same job at the same time, which is why the interfaces are real.
Process Engineering
Own the PFDs and P&IDs, the heat and material balance, line sizing and equipment duties. Your drawings set what every other discipline builds from.
Piping & Mechanical
Route the lines in the 3D model, place supports, extract isometrics, and take off material a procurement engineer can order from.
Electrical Engineering
Produce the single line diagram, the load list and the cable schedules, and classify the hazardous areas the layout creates.
Instrumentation & Control
Issue the instrument index and datasheets, draw the loops and hook-ups, and write the cause and effect the shutdown is built on.
Document Control
Hold the register itself: numbering, revisions, issue codes, transmittals, and the handover dossier the project is judged on.
Civil & Structural
Size the foundations and the pipe rack, detail the steel and the rebar, and take off the concrete and structural material.
Health, Safety & Environment
Run the HAZID and HAZOP on the team's own drawings, raise the actions, and chase them to closure before the gate.
Procurement & Construction
Raise the requisitions, evaluate the bids technically, expedite the packages, and take the project through punch list to mechanical completion.
Drafting seats sit alongside the engineering ones — P&ID, piping and 3D modelling, structural detailing, mechanical, electrical and instrument drafting.
Who takes a seat
Four reasons people join
the office
The office does one thing: it puts you on a real engineering project with a real register and someone senior marking your work. These are the people that helps.
Engineering graduates
You have the theory and no project history. Take a seat on a live job, carry deliverables through review to approval, and finish with a portfolio instead of an empty experience section.
Engineers changing discipline
Moving from operations into design, or from one discipline into another, means learning a new register and a new review cycle. Hold the new seat here first, on a project where a mistake costs nothing.
Employers hiring juniors
Put an intake through the office before they reach a real project. You see their reviewed deliverables and how they answered comments, which tells you more about them than an interview does.
Teams that must work to EPC standards
If your documents are rejected by the client's document controller, the gap is process, not engineering. Run a cohort through the register, the issue codes and the squad check until they are second nature.
The next project starts soon
Take a seat on your own, or put a cohort through together.
Contact Us
Get in Touch
Questions about the platform, corporate enrollment, or facilitator partnerships? We'd love to hear from you.
Direct Contact
info@btaacademy.org
Phone
+234 803 8844 269 / +234 803 8066 806
Address
5B Amusan Oloyede Street, Off Toyin Street, Ikeja, Lagos
Corporate & Bulk Enrollment
Putting a team through together? A company cohort runs the same project with its own project room, its own facilitator and seats you manage yourself.