BMT’s Specialists Take Part at Coasts & Ports 2015

BMT WBM and BMT JFA Consultants, subsidiaries of BMT Group, will take to the stage at the upcoming Coasts & Ports 2015 Conference in Auckland, New Zealand.

The Coasts and Ports Conference series is the pre-eminent forum in the Australasian region for professionals to meet and discuss issues extending across all disciplines relating to coasts and ports.

It brings together engineers, planners, scientists, stakeholders and researchers to focus on the technological, scientific, policy, planning and design issues related to the region’s diverse and developing coasts.

Dr Ralph Rayner, BMT Group Sector Director for Energy and Environment, said: “The breadth and depth of the topics being presented by BMT employees at Coasts & Ports 2015 demonstrates the range of knowledge and expertise available to clients from BMT in Australasia.”

Presentations from BMT WBM will include:

• How technical assessments of dredging undertaken as part of Environmental Impact Assessments have evolved in the light of the new guidelines and in the broader context of increasing demand from stakeholders for greater certainty about short and long term impacts;
• How the application of numerical tools has been used to assess capital works options to mitigate shoaling of the Mooloolaba Harbor entrance.

Presentations from BMT JFA will include:

• The multi-layered challenges of developing a port within a port, drawing on the James Point Port Project in Western Australia;
• The application of Bi-directional Evolutionary Structural Optimization (BESO) in the design and structural optimization of bespoke fender support structures;
• The successful design and construction of approximately 45,000m² of coastal revetment using a bespoke flexible concrete block mattress system on the Roy Hill Infrastructure project;
• The calibration and validation of an unstructured spectral wave model (UnSWAN), including detailed consideration of bimodal wave spectrum, for Thomson Bay, Rottnest Island, Western Australia;
• The successful design and commissioning of an innovative berthing system for the Australian Department of Defense Magnetic Treatment Facility, at the HMAS Stirling Naval Base, Western Australia.