We have extensive experience in the design of steel, aluminium and advanced composite vessels and a proven design pedigree for structures that are lightweight, robust, easy to construct and maintain, and fatigue-resistant, thanks to our close attention to detail.
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We offer a wide range of outfit engineering services from initial concept to class and production. Our concept work includes practical studies, sketches, and design proposals to demonstrate that the design meets requirements. We develop all outfit drawings and documentation required by Class and Flag for approval at the Class level.
Our long history of delivering whole-vessel engineering from concept to detailed production design allows us to add significant value in the early stages of development and ensure that the final design is practical and feasible without compromising the original intent.
We offer a comprehensive suite of product engineering services that use state-of-the-art production software and qualified experienced operators to provide a complete service for various vessels.
We collaborate closely with shipyards to ensure that the engineering details used are within the accepted practice of the yard and the capability of their equipment and make optimum use of the yard’s production facilities.
In addition, our experience in pre-contract design, classification-level design, and build support can offer single-source engineering. We take responsibility for developing all naval architecture, structural, mechanical and outfit aspects of design, from concept to reality.
Our expertise covers every aspect of electrical and mechanical development, design, operation, safety and maintenance for systems onboard marine vessels and facilities.
We can help you select and configure the optimum propulsion system to achieve any range of system performance criteria, be it efficiency, flexibility, noise and vibration or any combination of these requirements. Having worked with the industry’s leading and most innovative suppliers, we develop our designs with inputs from multiple stakeholders to deliver the most effective, highest -value and lowest-risk designs possible.
As well as developing central propulsion systems and associated machinery space arrangements, we can plan and layout all auxiliary machinery spaces, from providing support and guidance to shipyards in early-stage space planning to the preparation of final spatial arrangements for production.
We can develop the full suite of auxiliary system schematics using the accepted philosophy of standard system arrangement. Equally, we can challenge the status quo with new arrangements tailored for energy conservation, zero discharge, integration of new technology or improved operational effectiveness, ease of maintenance and redundancy.
Our team’s experience extends beyond desk-based design and engineering to build support during installation, commissioning assistance and in-service consultancy.
We specialise in the design of steel, aluminium, and composite structures. With over 30 years of experience developing structural plans for specialised commercial vessels, our team uses its extensive knowledge to deliver practical solutions.
Our structural design experience ranges from small composite production designs to large steel and aluminium vessels dominated by complex global loads. This experience, coupled with our proud heritage in the creation of high-speed commercial and naval craft, sets us apart as leaders in the field of lightweight and robust aluminium structures.
Our history of working with all the major classification societies gives us a vast depth of knowledge and a record of efficiently and effectively achieving full Class approvals. With each Class society subject to its nuances, we have the insight to engage the class in an educated debate at the appropriate points and ensure that designs are unencumbered by heavy, redundant, or expensive features.
Many naval architecture offices and smaller shipyards choose to subcontract structural design services, so we provide specialist structural engineering to a broad customer base, often including our competitors in other disciplines. We also offer a pool of flexible resources available to work in yard as required to more extensive shipyards.
So, whether engaged as a single-source structural designer or reinforcing your existing team, we can provide a skilled, flexible, and scalable service that helps you confidently bid, execute, and deliver even the most challenging of projects.
We offer a range of outfit enginnering services from concept through to class and production level.
Our outfit engineering team’s primary goal is to ensure that outfit items such as windows, anchors, ships, or boats integrate seamlessly with structural and mechanical engineering.
At the concept level, our work includes feasibility studies, sketches, and design proposals to demonstrate to the builder and operator how the whole design meets requirements.
At the Class-level, we develop all outfit drawings and documentation required by Class and Flag for approval.
We work closely with the shipyard at the production level to develop the vessel’s detailed outfit design, which includes working with the shipyard’s nominated and preferred suppliers to ensure integration with other disciplines. We do this while maintaining practicality for production, operation, and maintenance. Our work in this field is diverse and includes examples such as the detailed development of anchoring and mooring systems, concealment systems for lifeboats, life rafts, deck cranes, and other ancillary equipment through fine production detailing handrails, window bonding systems and machinery ventilation louvres.
We develop exceptional vessel designs that meet the exacting speed, performance, range, seakeeping, and efficiency requirements of operators and shipyards around the world.
We work with you closely to develop concepts and preliminary designs that meet all of your functional requirements, and we bring to bear our decades of experience in the entire process of whole-vessel engineering, from concept to detailed production design. We add significant value in the early stages of design development and ensure that the final design is practical and feasible without compromising the original intent.
Thanks to our unrivalled knowledge of the design of steel, aluminium and composite structures and our unique proprietary software, we’ve helped create some of the world’s most advanced marine systems and can offer designs to meet even the most challenging requirements. Our team of expert mechanical engineers have the tools and experience to design the most appropriate and efficient machinery and systems to operate to exact specifications.
We can collaboratively share ideas and technology and foster innovation in concept designs based on new or novel technology, advanced engineering, or innovative naval architecture solutions.
Whatever your requirements for technical support at the preliminary design stage, we have the expertise to develop practical, feasible engineering solutions for a concept without compromising your original design requirements.
Our outstanding reputation in hull-form design and development is founded on vessels that offer excellent seakeeping ability, low resistance, and high propulsive efficiency. Additionally, our background in configuring conventional and high-tech propulsion systems, together with our experience in integrating active stabilising and dynamic positioning systems, means that we provide the highest levels of capability for even the most demanding owners.
Our front-end design services include:
● Hull-form design and development
● Hydrodynamic model testing
● Performance predictions
● Weight assessments and stability analysis
● Specification development
● Concept design development
● Propulsion, machinery, and systems layout
● Tender level designs and vessel specifications
Class-level design is a complex process, involving the definition of all of the significant plans required for approval by the nominated Class Society and Flag State. But by combining every engineering discipline under one roof, we’ve successfully delivered Class-approved designs for vessels from 9m to 220m.
We’ve worked extensively with all the major Class Societies and offer a profound knowledge of achieving total approvals as efficiently and effectively as possible.
Each Class Society is different and subject to its own nuances. We have the insight and the expertise to engage the Class in an educated debate at the appropriate points and ensure that designs are free of heavy, redundant, or expensive features. Where designs do not fit within existing regulatory frameworks, we work closely with Class and Flag to agree on compliance based on a pragmatic design solution that meets equivalent levels of safety.
By combining this invaluable capability with our unrivalled experience in pre-contract design, we can offer single-source engineering to develop all naval architecture, structural, mechanical and outfit factors to meet the most demanding rule requirements. Where appropriate, we integrate a high level of detailing into our Class-level designs, thereby making it possible to progress quickly into production engineering and save valuable time and cost.
Our bespoke design engineering services include:
● Class rule calculations
● First principal structural calculations
● Finite element structural analysis
● Machinery and propulsion installation design
● System design
● Fire protection, detection, and suppression
● LSA requirements
● Anchoring and mooring
● Hydrostatics
● Intact and damaged stability analysis
● Tonnage and load line calculation
● Operational limitations
We produce high-quality Class-level drawing packages and vessel specifications for vessel cost estimation, contract, or further detailed design development by the shipyard.
We offer a comprehensive suite of production engineering services that use state-of-the-art production software and qualified, experienced operators to provide a comprehensive service for a wide range of vessels.
We have extensive experience in the design of steel, aluminium and advanced composite vessels, and a proven design pedigree for structures that are lightweight, robust, easy to construct and maintain, and fatigue-resistant thanks to our close attention to detail.
We collaborate closely with shipyards to ensure that the engineering details used are within the accepted practice of the yard and the capability of their equipment and make optimum use of the yard’s production facilities.
By combining this invaluable capability with our experience in pre-contract design, Classification-level design and build support, we can offer single-source engineering responsibility for development of all naval architecture, structural, mechanical and outfit aspects of design, from concept to reality.
The Ballast Water Management Convention, or BWM Convention, aims to prevent harmful organisms or substances from being transferred through ballast water.
From design solutions to trials, testing and management plans, we have supported a broad spectrum of commercial and naval customers with Ballast Water Management services on some of the most complex vessels in the world.
We provide comprehensive cost modelling and analysis services to help you in your next major procurement decision.
We offer a wide range of design consultancy services, ensuring optimal costs and operational efficiency.
We have unrivalled understanding and knowledge to help you navigate and interpret the complexities of the transition from design and build contractor to end-user ownership.
We are world leaders in managing reliability and retaining or restoring your technical assets to the necessary condition when carrying out maintenance.
We support the safety of your resources, including setting safety requirements, identifying hazards, assessing risks, ensuring compliance, and providing assurance through the production of safety case artefacts.
We provide integrated logistics support across a range of engineering and technical domains to support pre and post-delivery for new or modified ships and submarines.
We help you unlock opportunities through advanced visualisations.
The Australian Shipbuilding and Repair Group (ASRG) is the recognised peak industry body representing and promoting the Australian shipbuilding and repair industry sectors and the wider marine supply chain community to the domestic and international market.
Caledonian Maritime Assets Limited (CMAL) has awarded a contract to BMT to provide consultancy services for the concept design of a new passenger ferry for the Gourock, Dunoon and Kilcreggan routes. The new ferry will be designed to replace the vessels currently operated on the routes by CalMac.
BMT’s latest passenger ferry, designed for Kitsap Transit in the United States, has successfully completed sea trials and is ready to start operation in the next few weeks. The ENETAI out-performed design requirements during vessel trials, delivering to Kitsap Transit; a lighter, faster, and smoother riding vessel.
Alfred, built at the Strategic Marine shipyard in Vietnam, for Pentland Ferries is the greenest ferry of its kind, using 60% less fuel than similar vessels in the area.
BMT is pleased to announce that their latest passenger ferry design, for Aran Island Ferries, successfully completed sea trials and has now been delivered. The Saoirse Na Farraige is a 40 metres medium speed monohull ferry built to a BMT design by Cheoy Lee Shipyards in China.
Designing the first ferry of its type in the world posed some unique challenges.
Helping to develop Australia’s most recent Antarctic Supply and Research Vessel (ASRV)
A striking new hybrid ferry design, enabling greener ferry systems for the future.
BMT has introduced new vessel designs in response to a tender issued by Hong Kong’s Transport Department.
An all-new concept developed in collaboration between T. Fotiadis Design & Lateral Naval Architects. With its striking streamline design, Spear combines efficiency, comfort, and expansive open spaces to create an unparalleled cruising experience.
In collaboration with Penguin Shipyard International, the BMT design iteration, called “MFV-R”, is an optimal ship design created to offer a second-generation external firefighting capability that goes ‘above and beyond’ standard FiFi Class 1 requirements.
The Royal Institution of Naval Architects (RINA) has welcomed Catriona Savage, our Technical Assurance and Capability Director, as the new President of the institution
The life extension programme provided by BMT ensures MV Africa Mercy can continue to provide life-changing surgeries to children and adults who otherwise would go without.
On Monday, 13 June 2022, BMT’s Gordon MacDonald was presented with an Order of Australia Medal (OAM). An honour that recognises Australians for outstanding achievement and service.
The Western Joint Branch Junior Design Challenge is an annual contest run for associate members of both RINA and IMarEST. The design competition aims to challenge pre-chartership level engineers to develop a design solution to an ongoing issue in the maritime industry.
The US Navy recently commissioned BMT to conduct industry studies to advance the design of the next generation of US Navy Auxiliary General Ocean Surveillance Ship (T-AGOS(X)).
