The project involves constructing the first of two primary facilities for maintaining the Improved Navy Lighterage System (INLS).  The lighterage require cyclical maintenance, which takes place at Navy Point on Blount Island.  The facility is required to support lighterage maintenance, operational testing, storage, and staging.  This includes the ability to transfer lighterage between water and land in order to test newly maintained craft in the water and to transfer craft to maintenance facilities, both on and off site.  Project requirements include:

• One General Purpose Berthing Wharf for berthing up to 15 total Lighterage.
• Three access trestles to the Berthing Wharf.
• Lighterage Lift-Launch Pier (LLP), which includes two parallel finger piers to support the existing 150-ton Travel Lift, future 200-ton Travel Lift, and a 300-ton crawler crane and loaded transporter.
• Floating dock to berth two small watercrafts with floating jet dock.
• Waterfront Operations Building.
• Anti-Terrorism/Force Protection (AT/FP)
• Paved parking spaces and other facilities.

H2R performed the geotechnical exploration both on land and on a barge. We then provided the geotechnical design engineering and analysis, which is a key component in the development and construction of the wharf, tressels, and other supporting facilities.

As part of the project scope, H2R will also provide Specifications for Division 31, which include:

Section 31.00.00 – Earthwork

Section 31.10.00 – Site clearing

Section 31.23.00 – Excavation and fill

Section 31.62.16.13 – Steel pipe piles

Section 31.62.16.13 – Precast/prestressed concrete piles

And subsequently, H2R will provide related post-construction award services for the project.