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Harbours and Docks
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Solutions for Engineering - Harbours and Docks |
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Engineering projects involving ship building, as well as works on docks and harbours use solutions from Leica Geosystems.
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The new Bridge in the Bay of Cadiz, known as “Puente de la Pepa” (1812 Spanish Constitution), was the highest bridge in Europe in 2010. Its 3.1 km length, 180 metres height and 540 metres span makes it a true surveying challenge. more
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The Panama Canal revolutionized sea transport from the outset: it linked the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans for the first time, permitting significant time-savings, as ships no longer had to go around South America and face the rough waters of Cape Horn. With a set of new locks it is currently being expanded to meet the needs of modern ship traffic. Leica Geosystems is supplying surveying instruments to the project awardee at one of the greatest civil engineering works ever undertaken. more
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When the USS Missouri was decommissioned on March 31st, 1992, the 887-foot-long Iowaclass battleship looked tired. Her worn and pitted teak deck had supported thousands of naval officers and their crews. The 1998 transfer of “Mighty Mo” to the nonprofit USS Missouri Memorial Association of Honolulu, Hawaii, spawned a new career for the historic battleship as a World War II museum next to the USS Arizona on Pearl Harbor’s Battleship Row. But the directors had an even bigger vision in mind – one that involved repairing and preserving the battleship for generations to come. more
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With a clearance of about 226 feet (69 m) between Mean Lower Low Water (MLLW) and the span underside of the San Francisco Bay Bridge, there’s usually plenty of room for the world’s biggest ships to pass through on their way to the Port of Oakland. But when one of those ships is loaded with three of the world’s tallest container cranes, maybe there’s not enough room … or maybe there is. The job of deciding fell to Dave Murtha, the Port’s chief surveyor. more
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An estimated 7,000 bombs were dropped on Dresden during the Second World War. While most of them brought death and destruction, many still lie underground or in the Elbe river – without having detonated – and continue to pose a danger to construction projects even today, some 65 years later. Matthäi used the state-of-the-art Leica RedLine series satellitebased machine control system to search for undetonated Second World War bombs on and around the site for the new Waldschlösschen bridge over the Elbe. more
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This application report describes how the DAC-TC system is used to establish a 3D Building Frame System at the site and how this frame system is used when assembling the block structure. An example of such a structure is the double bottom of an “ecobox” type of carrier. more
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Modern shipbuilders have widely adopted the concept of modular construction and are realising the benefits associated with these methods. Further improvements in productivity can be achieved if these modules are accurately built, avoiding the traditional excess material normally trimmed during the erection process. more
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Could the turbines in a new hydro-electricity generating station cause ships to drift within their shipping lanes? Following the construction of a new hydro-electricity generating station on the bend in the River Danube at the lower Bavarian town of Bad Abbach (Germany), it was feared that the operating turbines might have just such an effect. more
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“Chantiers de l'Atlantique” has started to use Leica 3D measuring systems in 1995. Due to the good performance of the Leica products they have increased the number of measuring systems considerably.
All the users at the “Chantiers de l'Atlantique” highlight the savings the Leica systems have allowed them to make in terms of time and money. With the purchase of twoTDA 5000 systems (chosen because of the ATR) and associated software, they expect further productivity improvements in overlength management, which is a crucial problem for all shipyards and the main key to cut production costs. They are convinced that this tool fully meets their requirements. more
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Thyssen Nordseewerke GmbH, located in Emden on the North Sea coast, has a
long tradition dating back to 1903, when the shipyard was founded as the “Nordseewerke Emder Werft und Dock Aktiengesellschaft”... more
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Bird Johnson is one of the United States’ premier manufacturers of large surface ship propellers, primarily for the United States Navy and Marine Corps... more
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