Naval ship design
We deliver a wide range of complex engineering and design solutions with a heritage spanning defence organisations in Europe, the US, Canada, and the Pacific and a deep understanding of current challenges.
We deliver a wide range of complex engineering and design solutions with a heritage spanning defence organisations in Europe, the US, Canada, and the Pacific and a deep understanding of current challenges.
Our designers and engineers have the flexibility and capability to undertake the complete design and assurance of new naval platforms and introduce, execute, and manage design changes to existing in-service naval vessels.
We are the leading independent centre of excellence for naval design and through-life support in Europe and North America. One of the few external organisations named by the UK Ministry of Defence as a Delegated Naval Authority. We also undertake significant surface ship defence projects in Canada, Australia and Southeast Asia.
We pride ourselves on executing your requirements both within budget and on time. We are recognised for our experience, broad technical knowledge, long-term partnership management, impartial advice, and reliability.
We also advise acquisition agencies on balancing the capabilities of the ships they procure against the build, through-life operating and disposal costs. Our systems engineers and naval designers can make significant contributions from the first concept studies, through the detailed design phase to ship construction and ongoing in-service support.
Vessels we offer to the defence market include:
Our auxiliary range of vessels are designed to provide the capabilities to support global operations for naval and amphibious forces. Our extensive experience with auxiliary ships includes supporting the platforms operated by the UK Royal Fleet Auxiliary.
Our range of amphibious vessels has been developed to achieve cost-effective platforms whose capability offers improved speed, safety, and vessel design flexibility. More than a decade of investment in our CAIMEN™ family of landing craft has resulted in refined concepts that can be adapted to suit the requirements of military and security forces worldwide.
We leverage our expertise in high-performance craft design to meet the more robust requirements of the defence sector. Coast guard, navy, and law enforcement agencies benefit from vessels with significantly reduced motions in rough conditions while still retaining excellent safety, performance, and capability. Our investment in this sector has resulted in a range of operating vessels that include small, high-speed interceptor craft to large, high endurance mother ships.
Our technical, design and engineering skills mean that significant government agencies call upon us to support all aspects of platform design, upgrade, and life extension.
Getting a platform into service is not the only primary task: the real challenge and expense can come in keeping it ineffective service throughout its working life. We have substantial experience adapting platforms, either updating and maintaining current roles or evolving to suit different functions. We understand and manage the environmental and engineering challenges of the end of life and disposal processes.
Ensuring a platform is safe and meets naval standards through the life of a vessel is critical and requires enduring engineering knowledge and design capability, and class desks. We have in-depth experience in design support, engineering and technical expertise. We offer a centre of excellence that can augment government departments’ need to support Naval Material Assurance (NMA) and Ship Design and Acquisition Support (SDAS) of its fleets.
We offer a wide range of design consultancy services, ensuring optimal costs and operational efficiency.
Engineering policy covers a complex range of constantly evolving regulatory and advisory frameworks: from requirements, regulations and specifications to standards and guidance.
We apply human factors engineering principles to the design and improvement of complex technical systems to optimise the human component of capability.
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 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.
Our knowledge of submarine design, availability and reliability, enables efficient solutions to complex problems.
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.
It is increasingly recognised by defence forces around the world that climate change poses an increasing threat to peace and security in the world. Its impacts can undermine livelihoods, increase involuntary migration, and reduce the ability of states to provide security.
A discrete event modelling and simulation approach allows organisations to test multiple scenarios within systems, processes, and operations.
Artificial intelligence has revolutionised ship design and changed how we work forever. However, apart from improving computer-aided design (CAD) tools, the creation of ship arrangements is relatively the same as in the 1980s.
One of the most significant challenges of warship procurement is keeping pace with technological developments and changing strategic contexts.
Submarines are designed for a service life of more than 25 years. Therefore, they need to be prepared to meet the needs of tomorrow's and today's needs, which means a flexible operational capability and increased importance on areas such as sustainability and climate resilience in design.
Our Naval Architects speak to RINA Ship and Boat International about how we can assist our clients early on with Future Fuels for their next vessel design.
Through simulation-based numerical methods ship designers can perform complex analyses more rapidly and at a reduced cost. Johnathan Green explains how the successful application of numerical modelling has helped to de-risk and expedite delivery of new BMT landing craft designs.
The Strategic Development Team – comprising DE&S personnel, industrial representatives from Babcock and BAE Systems, CACI and BMT - has been recognised for achieving ‘Full Operating Capability’ for the Common Support Model programme supporting the Royal Navy’s fleet of complex warships.
The contract consists of capability and cost trade studies in critical areas, investigation of options to maximize affordability and producibility, and development of a concept design.
The vessel is the first milestone in the construction of the US Army’s next-generation landing craft, the “Maneuver Support Vessel (Light)” or “MSV(L)”.
We are thrilled to be part of the industry trade show celebrating UK engineering excellence on board HMS Prince of Wales.
BMT is proud to announce the winning team in the 'Best Final Design Project' in the Ocean and Naval Architectural Engineering Program at Memorial University in Newfoundland.
BMT stands ready with Harland & Wolff and Navantia to offer a modern approach to the FSS program that will contribute to sovereign shipbuilding and prosperity for the United Kingdom for years to come.
On July 31, 2020 at CFB Halifax dockyard, HMCS Harry DeWolf Arctic and Offshore Patrol Ship (AOPS) was officially delivered to the Royal Canadian Navy (RCN).
The SWRDSC’s launch event will be held on 4 November 2020 and will inform any potential members throughout the South West of the aims of the cluster and the opportunities that it presents.
Flexible, multifunctional platform to underpin military and Navy humanitarian operations in support of government policy.
Announcing a significant update to BMT's iconic ELLIDA™ design series, including studies of future technologies and concepts to enhance naval littoral capabilities.
The LUSV vision is an evolution of BMT's Highly Autonomous Warship Technologies (HAWT) programme.
Team Resolute, a consortium of Navantia UK, BMT and Harland & Wolff, is delighted to unveil its evolved design for the Fleet Solid Support ship for the UK Ministry of Defence’s (MoD) Royal Fleet Auxiliary (RFA) to support global operations for the Royal Navy.
BMT is pleased to announce that it has now signed a subcontract with Navantia UK, formalising its role in delivering the £1.6 billion Fleet Solid Support (FSS) programme.
A £1.6 billion contract has been awarded to Team Resolute to manufacture the vessels providing munitions, stores and provisions to the Royal Navy’s aircraft carriers, destroyers and frigates.
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.
