What is this standard about?
It gives recommendations and guidance on general criteria relevant to the planning, design, construction and maintenance of structures and facilities set in the maritime environment.
Who is this standard for?
- The maritime industry
- Maritime engineers/architects/surveyors/construction industry
- Infrastructure and environmental engineers for ports
- Project management consultants for maritime/ports
- Port authorities
- Private consultancies
- Planning agencies
- Manufacturers and suppliers of fenders and vessel berthing products
Why should you use this standard?
It is part of the extensive suite of standards covering maritime works and gives recommendations and guidance in respect of environmental and operational matters that need to be considered in planning and designing such works.
It includes a description of the various physical environmental conditions that need to be considered for investigation at a coastal site. It also gives information and guidance on methods of survey and data collection.
This standard applies to coastal, nearshore, estuarine and inland marine facilities for safe navigation, berthing, mooring, loading, unloading and servicing of ships, barges and other forms of waterborne transport and the associated infrastructure, equipment and works at the ship-shore interface. It is also useful for other civil infrastructure works at the waterfront or coastal margin such as dredging, reclamation, shoreline and coastal management works and to recreational infrastructure such as marinas.
This standard does not cover offshore structures for the petroleum and natural gas industries, which are specified in BS EN ISO 19900 and BS EN ISO 19901. It also does not cover recommendations for ground investigation, which are given in BS 6349-1-3.
What’s changed since the last update?
Together with BS 6349-1-2, BS 6349-1-3 and BS 6349-1-4, this part of BS 6349 replaces BS 6349-1:2000. It has been revised to align with current best practice. The main changes in respect of the planning and design content are:
- Reduction of informative content, with informative guidance separated from recommendations• General updating of reference documents to reflect latest practice
- Normative referencing of specific PIANC documents• General updating in respect of survey and data acquisition methods in line with latest technical developments of best practice, including the adoption of IHO Standards for Hydrographic Surveys for navigation
- Increased emphasis on environmental, safety and operational matters in planning and design
- Updating of recommendations and guidance on use of physical and numerical modelling and in ship simulation for design purposes in line with latest practice
- Inclusion of additional information on key ship dimensions for preliminary design and planning