John W. Gilbert Associates

John W. Gilbert Associates offers a wide range of engineering and design services to the marine industry. In addition to preliminary and contract design, John W. Gilbert Associates provides a wide range of consulting services. We have assembled below the types of services we most commonly offer.

Design

John W. Gilbert Associates experience in the design of new vessels has provided for project development that is both timely and detailed in scope. We endeavor to stay in tune with the industry to assure that the client’s project not only meets the required standards but utilizes the latest construction techniques to ensure high quality and reduced cost. John W. Gilbert Associates approach to design is from a well practiced program that includes not only communication protocols but design standards that result in a design that’s well thought out, free of conflicts, easy to read, and accurate in detail. John W. Gilbert Associates insures that management of a project flows smoothly from preliminary design to final delivery. John W. Gilbert Associates takes pride in following their design through to the end which is best illustrated through the loyalties of our customers. The design services we offer include preliminary design for bidding and budgetary purposes, detailed design development of our vessels as well as preliminary designs by others, and construction plans for new construction and conversions.

Our most frequent design work includes:

• Custom concept and preliminary design for new vessels and conversions
• Contract design, specification writing, and bid package preparation for new designs and conversions
• Preparation of detailed construction plans for new designs and conversions

Consulting

Consulting services which John W. Gilbert Associates provides form a significant part of our Company’s history. Often these services have helped to to improve our focus on our own new designs with the experience gained while making design changes to other vessels. Adapting a change to an existing vessel, making it comply with all regulations, meeting the needs of the customers and maintaining a construction budget are all challenges John Gilbert Associates meets with continued success.

• Stability Tests, Deadweight Surveys, and Stability Conditions Booklet
• Speed and Power Analysis, Propeller Selection
• Vessel Repowering
• Transportation Studies
• Midlife Retrofitting
• Gross Domestic Tonnage Reviews
• Load Line Calculations
• Vessel Lengthening and Sponsoning
• Major and Minor Structural Revisions
• Project Management

We invite you to contact us to obtain additional information about any of our services.