Floating Dry Dock Design

Heger Dry Dock provides complete design drawings and specifications for floating drydocks for the shipbuilding and ship repair industries. Docks are designed to meet American Bureau of Shipping (ABS) and MIL-STD 1625D(SH) requirements.

Scope of design packages

• Naval architecture evaluations and structural designs
• Equipment sizing, layouts and schematics for mechanical and electrical components
• Specifications and an operating manual covering architectural, structural, mechanical, electrical and HVAC details
• Outfitting such as fixed mooring systems, vehicle access bridges, pedestrian gangways with utility services, powered vessel handling systems and collection tanks

Track record

The portfolio lists floating dock designs of 80,000, 55,000, 40,000, 15,000, 7,500, 7,000, 3,800, 1,700 and 1,000 ton capacity, a 28,000 ton floating dock with transfer, an 8,600 ton semi-submersible barge with transfer, a 5,000 ton dock with 2,500 ton transfer, and replacement pontoons for 45,000 ton and 14,000 ton docks. Examples include the 55,000 LT 'Pride of California' for BAE Ship Repair San Diego (designed 2014, built in Qingdao, certified by NAVSEA in 2017) and a 70,000 LT transfer dock for Huntington Ingalls, Pascagoula.