Services
One relationship covers the build. We provide comprehensive representation from design to delivery.
Owner's Representation
An owner's representative stands on your side of the table for the life of a build. We review the contract and specification before you sign, then stay with the vessel while it takes shape: watching the schedule, the workmanship, and the budget.
Shipyards are good at building boats. They are also good at protecting their margin. Change orders, substitutions, schedule slips, and quiet corner cutting all come out of the owner's pocket. We have spent 30 years learning where those costs hide.
Project Management
Every build runs on three things: the schedule, the budget, and the change order log. We track all three on your behalf, measure progress against milestones, challenge costs that do not belong to you, and keep the paper trail an owner needs if a dispute ever surfaces.
The reporting is plain. Where the build stands, what is at risk, and what we are doing about it.
Field Engineering
Drawings never survive first contact with steel. Field engineering means closing the gaps between the design and the vessel on the spot: fit-up problems, routing conflicts, weld quality, coatings, equipment installation.
Our people have worked maintenance, operations, and new construction. We know what fails in service, so we catch it in the yard, where it is cheap to fix.
Design Coordination
Whether the design team is yours or the shipyard's, we work alongside its naval architects (the engineers who shape a vessel's hull, structure, and stability) and mechanical engineers as collaborators, and keep the design answering to the owner's interest.
Coordination does not stop at the drawing office. We keep the design aligned with class rules (the standards written by classification societies, the independent bodies that certify a vessel's structure and safety), with the regulatory bodies that approve and inspect the vessel, and with the way your crew will actually work the vessel in service. You get a package that is complete, consistent, and buildable before the yard prices it.
Not sure which of these you need? Start with a conversation.