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Category 4: Special Projects
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Sandspreading Barge - Singapore
SE
Contact
Dieter Hoeterickx
Address Orlaylaan 10
9140 Temse, Belgium
Website
MULTI guides customers to success. That’s why we deliver
tailor-made
engineering services and why we employ and develop highly-skilled
engineers. MULTI serves three market segments:
industry, building &
infrastructure and maritime & offshore
.
We have projects throughout the entire life cycle of assets, from feasibility
study up to decommissioning. Our services range from
temporary
staffing
to
full project management
for designing, building or operating
your assets. We have developed competence centres in different
disciplines; steel construction is one of them.
Owner
DEME
Engineering Office
Multi
Construction Period 09/2014 - 11/2014
MULTI was asked by DEME, one of Belgium’s largest dredging
companies, to design and engineer a collector shoot with fall pipe that
could be installed on a floating barge in Asia.
The sand would be delivered by barges which discharge the sand into the
collector shoot by conveyor belts. With the aid of a fall pipe (with a total
length of 12 m below waterline) the sand could be placed very accurately
onto the seabed. The engineering of the collector shoot and fall pipe
were part of the scope executed by MULTI, followed by the delivery of
production drawings and material lists for this project.
SCIA Engineer was used to model and design the collector shoot and
analyze the stress in different loading conditions; the environmental/
weather conditions needed to be considered during the engineering
process.
As the equipment would be for a single project the client requested that
we engineer a solution that would be cheap and easy to build, taking into
account local restrictions on experience and materials.
MULTI
