Ports and Harbours

Ports and harbors around the world are faced with similar challenges: allow easy access for vessels, but not for waves. As a result, optimal design is a balance between navigational concerns and port operations.

Baird has extensive experience in the design and implementation of marine based infrastructure in ports around the world. Our expertise in the fields of wave generation, transformation and harbor agitation, combined with our numerical and physical modeling experience allows us to carry out the appropriate analyses to deliver practical innovative solutions to the client.

Baird has developed a marine operability downtime assessment tool that considers the metocean contraints on berthing and unloading of various types of operations in a harbor or open berth. This tool is typically used in conjunction with numerical and/or physical modeling of ship motion and has been sucessfully used on numerous projects.

Baird's engineers have been designing harbor structures to provide safe and protected berthing for ships and recreational craft for more than twenty years. Our innovative, cost-effective structures have stood the test of many severe storms.

Typical Services:

• Field studies including waves, currents & water levels
• Wave climate definition offshore, nearshore & at the berths
• Ship motion studies and port downtime estimates
• Structural optimization
• Preliminary and final design
• Construction documents & administration
  
• Post construction monitoring