Marine Engineering Services
The underwater environment can be particularly harsh on structures and poses unique challenges to inspectors who must evaluate scour, material conditions or new construction. With ADC dive-certified, professional engineers (PE’s) on staff, KCI’s underwater inspection teams offer clients unique and comprehensive engineering and inspection services for underwater subsurface facilities such as bridges, waterfront structures, water tanks, and pipelines. Our highly trained and experienced PE-Divers evaluate submerged structural features, firsthand, and identify the probable causes of failures, communicate findings in professional terms, and follow-up with recommendations for remedial actions. With some regulations and government agencies requiring PE’s to lead inspection dive teams, KCI advocates deploying PE-divers to secure hands-on data for clients.
”...the underwater inspection team should always be led by a registered, licensed professional engineer who is also a qualified diver.”
—Underwater Investigations Standards of Practice Manual, ASCE Manuals and Reports on Engineering Practice No. 101, page 15.
The underwater engineering inspection services that KCI Technologies, Inc. offers, combines the resources of ADC (Association of Diving Contractors) certified PE divers with the full-service capabilities of a large, multi-discipline civil engineering firm, to provide clients with comprehensive cradle to grave marine engineering services.
Underwater Engineering & Inspection
- Underwater investigations, documentation, assessment and recommendations for bridges, waterfront structures, and pipelines
- Potable water tank inspections
- Repair recommendations and cost estimates
- Repair designs for bridges, waterfront structures, pipelines, potable water facilities, and water control structures
- Rapid response for emergencies
Marine Engineering Services
- Comprehensive engineering reports
- Failure investigations
- Condition assessments
- As-built structural investigations
- Preventative maintenance recommendations
- Structural and rehabilitation designs
- Turbidity monitoring
- Expert testimony, research and testing
- Training manuals and seminars
- Permitting assistance
- Environmental impact statements
Marine Construction Inspection
- Constructability reviews
- On-site inspection
- Quality control
- Construction Management
- Claims control and analysis
Hydrographic Surveying
- Soundings
- Flow and current studies
- Pre- and post-dredge bathymetry
- Submerged structure identification
- Dredge spoils analysis
- Structure sighting
- Pipeline routing
- Sub-bottom profiling
Non-Destructive and Partially Destructive Testing & Sampling
- Steel (ultrasonic thickness testing and magnetic particle and radiographic testing)
- Concrete coring and timber boring
- Marine borer infestation evaluation
Underwater Documentation
- Photography
- Underwater video with narrative audio
- Photomosaic development, assimilation and interpretation
- Clear water photography in limited visibility and turbid conditions
Safety is Paramount
All diving inspections conform to OSHA’s 29 CFR Part 1910, Subpart T — Commercial Diving Operations and KCI’s internal “Safe Diving Practices Manual” which requires a three-man minimum dive team.
Divers are trained in accordance with American National Standards Institute (ANSI) and the Association of Commercial Diving Educators (ACDE); ANSI/ACDE-01-1998 American National Standard for Divers — Commercial Diver Training.
- Yokohama, Japan—Topside and Underwater Bridge Inspection
- Maryland Port Administration—On-Call Underwater Inspections
- Maryland State Highway Administration—Underwater Bridge Inspection
- Annapolis Yacht Club Underwater Inspection
- US Army Corps of Engineers—Bridge Services
- Hampton Roads Sanitary District—Outfall Survey, Inspection, and Design
- Chestertown Utilities Commission—Standpipe Inspection
Contact
John S. Dubiel, Jr.
Diver Supervisor/Bridge Inspector
Phone: (410) 316-7800×1542
Fax: (410) 316-7900
E-mail: jdubiel@kci.com
KCI Technologies, Inc.
10 North park Drive
Hunt Valley, MD 21030-1846
Phone: (410) 316-7800
Fax: (410) 316-7900
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