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Anton Petersen
Vice President,
Bridge, Tunnel and Marine
Structures
+45 4597 2888
ape@cowi.com
Robert B. Bittner
President
Ben C. Gerwick Inc.
+1 415 288 2731
rbb@gerwick.com
Michael Bindseil
Head of Department,
Marine & Foundation
Engineering
+45 4597 2947
mhb@cowi.com
Thomas Gierlevsen
Head of Department, Qatar
+974 44 23 845
thgi@cowi.com
Quality Management
System Certicate and
Certication Conditions.
Buildings
Residential buildings
Educational buildings
Hospitals and health buildings
Cultural and sports buildings
Commercial buildings
Industry
Industrial buildings
Production and processing plants
Oil and gas
Health, safety and environment
Environmental and social due diligence
Utilities
Municipal and hazardous waste
Water and wastewater
Energy planning and systems
Telecommunication
Jrgen S. Steenfelt
Research and
Development Manager,
Geotechnical Engineering
+45 4597 1388
jos@cowi.com
Thomas Dahlgren
Chief Project Manager
+45 4597 2669
thda@cowi.com
Mogens A. Hviid
Chief Project Manager
+974 442 3845
mah@cowi.com
Jotham Vizard
Chief Project Manager
+45 4597 1323
jov@cowi.com
Jrgen Juhl
Chief Project Manager
+45 4597 1178
jju@cowi.com
Henrik Dahl
Vice President
Ben C. Gerwick Inc.
+1 415 288 2749
hd@gerwick.com
Clients
COWI works for public and private infrastructure owners as well as for contractors. We
advocate for a close dialogue with the contractor (BOT and design-build projects) in order to
take all data into account and to optimize the
design and construction.
Understanding our clients needs and
combining this with our knowledge and experience to successful project completion is our
goal.
Marine Terminals
Oil and gas (LNG) terminals
Bulk terminals
Coastal Projects
Land reclamation
Coastal protection
Man-made Islands
Breakwaters
Beaches
Bulk Terminals
Like other ports and port terminals the study
and design of bulk terminals rely on general
marine engineering and special expertise on the
systems for handling of bulk. The latter is normally tailored to the actual type of bulk material to be loaded or unloaded at the terminal.
Otherwise bulk handling terminals can be
made at long quays like general cargo or
container berths or at jetty structures quite
similar to the ones used for oil and gas terminals.
The design thus requires knowledge of the
requirements associated with the specic type
of bulk material and the various types of
handling systems, ranging from traditional
grab handling to various types of conveyor
belts to systems using pipes for pumping of the
material in question.
The designer works with suppliers of such
special systems to develop optimum solution.
COWI undertakes all types of services for
bulk terminals ranging from planning, layout
studies, hydraulic studies, surveys, environmental assessments, feasibility studies, conceptual
and detailed design, tender documents,
contracting and contract supervision and
management.
Container Terminals
Container terminals are normally made in connection with a long straight quay as the terminal
requires quite a width perpendicular to the quay
to make room for container cranes at the quay
front and for transport laterally along the quay
and nally for storing/stacking of containers in the
container yard.
Container vessels become larger and larger and
the latest development in vessel size is vessels up to
400 m length and a draft fully loaded in the order
of 16 m, thus requiring depth at the quay front of
about 17 m. The quay structures for a container
terminal are thus quite similar to the ones used for
other types of port terminals with the exception
that most often the crane rails requires piles as
foundation. These piles can be an integrated part of
the quay structure. Otherwise the designer of a
container terminal works closely with the operator
to develop a tailored most optimum system for the
specic terminal including the requirements to
container cranes and the special type of equipment
required for moving and stacking of containers
such as for example straddle carriers. A container
yard has very heavy trafc and the design of the
heavy duty pavement requires special attention.
COWI undertakes all types of services for
container terminals ranging from planning, layout
studies, hydraulic studies, surveys, environmental
assessments, feasibility studies, conceptual and
detailed design including heavy duty pavements,
building design incl. building services, electrical and
mechanical design as well as water and sewage
design, tender documents, contracting and contract
supervision and management.
Liseleje Coastal
Protection, Denmark.
Beach Nourishment,
Funen, Denmark.
Coastal Protection,
Bray Head, Ireland.
Man-Made Islands
Master Plan,
Danaat Howas,
Bahrain.
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Breakwater Projects
COWI is an international name in the design
of breakwaters. Our experience reaches from
fundamental scientic research to design and
supervision of construction.
COWIs staff has more than 30 years
experience from over 150 international
breakwater projects in 5 continents. The
experience includes all types of breakwaters
from rubble mound to caisson. In addition the
experience includes an extensive variety of
armour units such as quarry rock, cubes,
grooved cubes, dolos, tetrapods, accropodes,
and CORE-LOC.
COWI uses its in-house capabilities in
numerical modelling of wave propagation as
basis for denition of design waves and then
for the conguration of breakwaters, and to
perform conceptual analysis and design. We
specify and supervise 2D ume tests and 3D
physical model tests.
In the event of poor ground conditions, stateof-the-art soil structure interaction analysis
software is used to analyse the breakwater
foundation and dene soil improvement works
as necessary.
Placing of CORE-LOC.
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Design Tools
COWI uses state-of-the-art numerical models
and tools in all phases of projects. COWI staff
is experienced in their use. The most prominent
ones are shown below.
SESAM
IBDAS
IBDAS is COWIs own integrated design and analysis software tool. It allows
for geometrical modelling,
structural analysis and
verication of engineering
structures and generation
of construction drawings.
HOLEBASE
HOLEBASE is a database
system for geotechnical
data. It allows for proper
storing and analysis of data
and presentation in AutoCAD
PLAXIS
LITPACK
MIKE21
ROBOT
OPTIMOOR
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General
Risk Management
Internationally COWI provide the only available reliability based service life design methodology against chloride and carbonation
induced reinforcement corrosion.
Marine structures are usually now to be
designed for 100, 120 or even 200 years service
life. This surpasses by far the assumed design
life following most codes and standards.
Internationally recognised expertise and
experience
COWIs recognised leading position within durability design and concrete technology is based
on more than 40 years worldwide experience
within the design, operation and maintenance of
exposed reinforced concrete structures.
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Services by COWI
Project Period
2000 - 2005
Client
Iarnrd ireann
Construction supervision
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Port of Copenhagen
Services
Project management
Conceptual design
Prequalication of
contractors
Tender documents
Contracting and
supervision
Review of contractors
design
Trafc analysis
EIA
Cost estimate
Digital document
management
Project Period
2000 - 2003
Client
Port of Copenhagen A/S
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Services
Assesment of geotechnical
investigations
Hydrographical analyses
Breakwater design
Dynamic mooring analyses
Design of access channel and
navigational lights
Vessel downtime assessment
Design of jetty structure
Seismic analyses
Building design
Electrical and Mechanical design
Project period
2002 - 2004
Client
Archirodon Construction/
Bechtel International
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Services
Project Period
Structural Design
2001 - 2002
Geotechnical
Design
Client
Design of Scour
Protection
Top: Completed foundation elements under transport to site.
Left: Production yard in Poland.
Right: With turbines installed.
Project Follow-up
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Services by COWI
Offshore Geotechnical
investigations
Project Period
2003 - ongoing
Client
Techinp, Chiyoda, Snamprogetti,
Archirodon Construction, Qatar
Petroleum
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Services
Conceptual Design
Studies
Alignment
Planning
Trafc
Embankments & ll
depots
Topography &
bathymetry
Bridges
Geotechnique
Hydrography
Mechanical &
electrical installations
Meteorology
Marine modelling
Project Period
Environment &
ecology
2001 - 2002
Risk assessment
Design basis
Client
Ministry of Municipal
Affairs and Agriculture,
Qatar
Services
Bathymetric survey
Geotechnical site investigations
Environmental management plan
Design assistance during construction
Design of marinas
Design of culverts
Design basis
Conceptual design
Detailed design
Tender and contract documents
Project Period
2003 - ongoing
Client
United Development Company (UDC)
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Master Planning
Numerical modelling of ow and wave conditions as well as beach stability and sediment
spill from dredging operations made using the
modelling systems MIKE 21 and LITPACK and
formed an integrated part of the planning and
design activities. A special point of interest was
the ushing of the canals to ensure proper water
quality and the design of 19 beaches surrounded
by exclusive residential villas and international
high class hotels.
Services
Bathymetric and Topographic Surveys
Geotechnical Investigations
Master Planning
Environmental Impact Assessment
Conceptual and Detailed Design
Preparation of Tender Documents
Tender Evaluation
Project period
2004 - 2006
Client
Bechtel Overseas Corporation
Numerical
modelling.
Plan view.
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Services
Liquefaction
Diving Activities
Seismic Analysis
Dredging
Constructability Studies
Cost Estimating
Scheduling Preparation/Review
Specication Preparation/Review
Value Engineering
Pre-cast Concrete
Year of Completion
2008
Tremie Concrete
Non-Linear Soil Pile Interaction
Ice Loading/Abrasion Resistance
Client
S. Army Corps of Engineers
Louisville District
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Services Performed
Year of Completion
Services Performed:
2003
Detailed Design
River Navigation
Structures
Precast Concrete
Construction
Client
U.S. Army Corps of
Engineers
Pittsburgh District
Construction
Sequencing and
Scheduling
Construction Means
and Methods
Tremie Concrete Mix
Design
Construction
Engineering
Float-in of dam segment.
Ben C. Gerwick, Inc. working with the Pittsburgh District, USACE designed and assisted
with construction supervision of the New
Braddock Dam. Gerwick took the lead in designing the oat-in precast dam segments and
developing In-the-Wet construction methods
and procedures including:
Conceptual design of the cast and launch
system for the precast dam segments.
Transport, positioning and immersion of the
segments on to pre-installed foundations.
Developing a cast and launch facility for two
11,000 ton dam segments
Designing a 333 ft long precast shell with
sufcient strength for launch, transport and
immersion while maintaining a ten ft maximum draft.
Developing a transport, positioning, immersion and dam completion plan that can
safely accommodate a 500- year ood on 48
hour notice.
Developing a positioning system with +/- 14
inch vertical and +/- two inch horizontal
tolerances.
Drilled pier foundation layout and preliminary design.
Underbase grouting and tremie in-ll concrete plans.
Risk analysis of the segment, launch, transport outtting and installation.
Selected References
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Completion: 1995
Completion: 2005
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Selected References
Caleta La Mision Port, Tierra del
Fuego, Argentina
Completion: 2002
Completion: 2002
Selected References
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Completion: 2001
Completion: 2002
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Selected References
Shoaiba Steam Power Plant,
Saudi Arabia
Description: The plant located on the Red
Sea Coast south of Jeddah is a major power
and desalination plant with water intake and
outfall structures at the shoreline
Client: Saudi Archirodon Limited
Completed: 2001
Services by COWI: Design of large intake
structures consisting of GRP-pipes and
Accropode breakwater intake basin and
outfall weir, canal and guiding structures.
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hhp@cowi.com
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