Marine Engineering: Ballast and Mooring

Prepared ballast and mooring system mechanical design for floating flood control gate

HEC provided contract level design of mechanical and electrical systems, mooring and winching design, and naval architecture review for a floating swing gate system for the Gulf Inland Water Ways (GIWW) to seal off one section of the water way from flooding. The floating gate was located in Louisiana. HEC was acting as a subcontractor to Civil Engineering firm Ben Gerwick.