Our Assessment Capabilities
We undertake detailed structural assessments of marine infrastructure to determine load-carrying capacity, structural behaviour, and the long-term suitability of your assets for continued use.
Complex Load Analysis
Our assessments comprehensively model and evaluate structural loading against extreme marine forces, including:
- Vessel berthing and mooring forces.
- Tidal shifts and wave actions.
- Severe environmental conditions and extreme weather events.
- Long-term material deterioration and fatigue.
Performance & Suitability Reviews
We review all available historic information, current inspection findings, and real-world structural performance data to determine exactly how your asset is behaving under stress, and whether it remains fit for its intended operational use.
Actionable Outcomes
The outcome of our assessment is a precise understanding of your asset’s condition, supported by practical engineering recommendations. We outline exactly when and where to implement targeted repairs, temporary operational restrictions, or long-term replacement strategies
Our Repair & Refurbishment Capabilities
Marine environments lead to inevitable corrosion, material deterioration, and impact damage over time. Where our assessments identify structural weaknesses, our engineering team provides expert design for repair and rehabilitation works that breathe new life into existing infrastructure.
Comprehensive Rehabilitation
We develop bespoke repair strategies, strengthening schemes, and comprehensive refurbishment plans tailored to a wide variety of marine assets, including:
- Jetties and piers.
- Quay walls and berthing structures.
- Marine foundations and coastal defences.
Minimising Operational Disruption
We understand that waterfronts are active, commercial environments. Our design solutions carefully consider constructability, tidal access constraints, and the daily operational requirements of busy ports, harbours, and riverside locations.
Durable, Long-Term Performance
Our ultimate aim is to deliver highly practical and resilient interventions. By addressing the root cause of structural deterioration, we minimize immediate disruption while guaranteeing long-term structural performance and an extended service life for your assets.
Our Maritime Engineering services
Our experience covers a wide range of maritime structures including jetties, piers, pontoons, dolphins, quay walls, wharves, marinas, docks, berths and mooring systems, together with river and coastal infrastructure such as sea walls, flood walls, locks and navigation structures. We also provide engineering services associated with fender systems, linkspans, brows and lighthouses.
Inspections
We undertake structural inspections of waterfront infrastructure to assess condition, identify defects and inform maintenance strategies.
Our inspections cover structures such as jetties, piers, quay walls, pontoons, dolphins, berths, moorings and coastal defence structures. Inspections identify deterioration mechanisms including corrosion, fatigue, scour, marine growth and impact damage.
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Structural Assessments
We undertake structural assessments of marine infrastructure to determine load-carrying capacity, structural behaviour and the suitability of assets for continued use.
Assessments consider structural loading from vessels, mooring forces, tidal and wave actions, environmental conditions and long-term deterioration.
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Flood Defence Walls
We provide inspection, assessment, design and modification of flood defence walls in riverine, estuarine and coastal environments.
Our experience includes tidal river walls in dense urban areas, coastal flood defences protecting waterfront developments, and river wall structures integrated with quays, embankments and transport infrastructure.
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Flood Risk Assessments
We undertake flood risk assessments for developments and infrastructure located within coastal, estuarine and riverside environments.
Our assessments consider flood risk associated with tidal, fluvial and coastal processes and support planning applications, development proposals and infrastructure resilience planning.
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Feasibility & Optioneering
We undertake feasibility studies and engineering optioneering to help clients determine the most appropriate intervention strategies for maritime infrastructure.
Our studies assess the structural condition of existing assets alongside operational requirements, environmental constraints, regulatory considerations, and long term asset objectives.
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Permits, Consenting & Licensing
At Frankham, we support clients through the process of obtaining the licences and permits required for works within marine, tidal and riverside environments.
Our team has experience coordinating with statutory bodies including Local Planning Authorities (LPA), the Marine Management Organisation (MMO), the Environment Agency (EA) and Local Harbour Authorities (LHA).
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Contract Administration & Site Supervision
We provide contract administration and site supervision services to support the delivery of maritime infrastructure projects during construction.
Our engineers work closely with contractors, asset owners and project stakeholders to ensure works are delivered in accordance with design intent, contractual requirements and relevant standards.
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Berthing Assessments & Mooring Analysis
We undertake feasibility studies and engineering optioneering to help clients determine the most appropriate intervention strategies for maritime infrastructure.
Our studies assess the structural condition of existing assets alongside operational requirements, environmental constraints, regulatory considerations, and long term asset objectives.
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