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USP Maritime

Marine Engineering

From concept design through to ship repair and decommissioning, for a broad range of marine assets, including Defence, Superyachts, Offshore and Commercial vessels, USP Maritime works with some of the industry’s leading owners, operators, consultancies and shipyards around the world.

Engineering Specialisations:

Expertise in Marine Structural Engineering, Production Engineering, Plan Approval, System Design and Integration, Compliance and Feasibility. USP Maritime also has a unique pedigree regarding large heritage yacht restoration projects for very discrete owners.

Naval Architecture

USP Maritime delivers vessel designs and conversions for a wide range of clients and project stakeholders who seek the peace of mind that our experienced team of engineers provide through their technical expertise and hands-on shipyard backgrounds.

Our team has designed vessels of every possible type from Offshore patrol boats to high speed CTV’s and luxury yachts. Our team of engineers includes some of the most experienced professionals in the sector covering the commercial and large luxury yacht categories. We get repeat custom from our clients because we deliver cutting edge designs that are optimised for and well received by production teams around the world.

USP Maritime offers the a diverse range of services to the marine industry including:

  • Conceptual Design
  • Naval Architecture Design
  • Maritime Safety Compliance
  • Powering and Performance Prediction
  • Stability Analysis and Reporting
  • Seakeeping Analysis
  • Design Support

Structural Design

USP Maritime’s structural engineers work from first principles through to FEA design and regulatory compliance for our clients.

Working with cutting edge 3D modelling and analysis software USP maritime is able to produce shop floor friendly production drawings and construction documentation for our clients.

Typical Structural Engineering services include:

  • Analysis from first principles, rule calculation or Finite Element Analysis
  • Classification Society Plan Approval
  • Tailored production design packages
  • Optimised design to reduce production costs
  • Detailed design including equipment foundations
  • Integrating modern and classic

Mechanical Design

USP understands marine operations and the realities of shop floor production in detail, our team designs vessels with user and production team in mind.

That’s why we’re ideally placed to provide mechanical engineering services for our clients including the specification, arrangement, integration and production of a wide variety of marine mechanical and pipe systems.

Typical Mechanical Engineering services include:

  • Marine engineering systems specification, design & design appraisal
  • Conceptual design of marine engineering systems
  • Machinery & Equipment selection
  • Supervision of machinery system installations
  • Technical investigations into equipment and system failures
  • Propulsion systems – design and appraisal/ evaluation
  • Planned maintenance systems
  • Slow, medium and high speed diesel engines
  • Optimisation of systems for new builds, repairs and refits
  • System commissioning

Electrical Design

Working with our clients, USP can agree a specification and then produce a comprehensive concept along with work-up packages leading to a full set of easy-to-understand industry standard electrical installation diagrams as required.

USP is able to produce system GA's and functionality matrixes for a wide range of vessels from small craft to Super yachts.

Typical Electrical Engineering services include:

  • Design of electrical distribution systems
  • Electrical load balance analysis to aid in sizing of electrical plant
  • Design of vessel automation systems including power management
  • Research into future electrical engineering concepts for modern vessels
  • IMO Tier III Compliance

Project Management & Onsite Tech Support

USP Maritime’s team has a unique pedigree working alongside and integrating with shipbuilders either on or offsite.

USP understands the realities of shop floor production in detail, our team is ideally placed to provide build supervision, project management and onsite technical support to our clients around the world.

Our team can undertake or assist with:

  • Procurement specifications
  • Assessment of ship owners’ requirements
  • Economic solutions and value engineering
  • Assistance in tendering
  • Design for classification and flag authority approval
  • Advising on programme/quality control
  • Advising on VTC – Design changes
  • Certification of milestone payments
  • Hull production design
  • Whole ship production design
  • Production planning
  • Commissioning
  • Production Support
  • Project Management

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