Establishing new port channels and basins and managing the build-up of sediment can present a major obstacle to ports and boat harbours. Removal of seabed material often requires specialist dredging equipment, which is often limited in availability and costly to mobilise.
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Head of Business Development, North America
Houston, United States
+1 281 200 3115 Coastal@bmtglobal.comOur experience in managing the whole life cycle of dredging projects mean that we are best placed to assist our clients in ensuring timely execution and best value for money from the engineering design, procurement, execution and maintenance phase.
Environmental risk assessment of siltation dredging and dredge material management.
Using AIS-based methodology, BMT mapped out marine traffic scenarios that have enabled clients to plan future dredging activity safety & efficiently.
BMT was engaged by KPA to provide site supervision, technical and management services for the delivery of the Broome Channel Optimisation project to enable port access for large shipping and cruise vessels.
Ports North engaged BMT to provide specialist engineering design of the dredging and disposal site and environmental advice for the EIS process. Aproximately 800,000 cubic metres of material was removed and pumped onshore.
Fremantle Ports trusted BMT to oversee marine monitoring of major dredging and reclamation works, in full public view, for Western Australia's largest metropolitan port.
BMT was engaged by the Bunbury Port Authority in 2004 and again in 2007 to manage maintenance dredging works undertaken in the harbour and channel areas of the Port.
BMT has worked to provide an integrated service for the management of the DoT's Maintenance Dredging Program since 2000.
BMT delivered the full range of project management, from the drafting of tender documents to on-site supervision.