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• Coordination becomes a single internal process,

Mobilisations and not a multi-party negotiation. One drawing set

Mission-equipment Integration co vers structural, electrical, mechanical and

A walk-to-work installation, a LARS foundation, a verti- hy draulic scope. Production capacity in Gala?i is cal lay system, a mission deck conversion — each is techni- allocated against the same project plan as the cally a structural scope with signifcant electrical, controls engineering hours and the riding-crew schedule. and class dimensions. Each historically passes through three When the design changes — and on complex or four different companies before reaching the vessel.

offshor e work, it always changes — the change

With the Technology Centre, the change is concrete. Struc- pr opagates inside one organisation in days, not tures are engineered, fabricated and verifed in-house before acr oss fve contracts in weeks.

they leave Gala?i. A gangway foundation is dry-ftted against • Risk is taken off the owner. The interface risks that the equipment OEM’s mounting bracket in the workshop, historically sit in the gaps between contractors — weeks before the vessel arrives at the yard. Structural reinforce- dimensional mismatches, untested electrical ments are FEA-validated and class-documented under GLO inter faces, conficting class documentation — are

Marine’s own naval architecture team. Electrical interfaces are r esolved in the workshop, weeks before the vessel tested against the actual equipment they will connect to.

arriv es at the yard.

The integration is pre-rehearsed in the workshop, not • Vessel downtime compresses. Fabricated improvised on the vessel.

assemblies arrive at the yard fully tested,

GLO Marine’s track record on this work runs through dimensionally verifed against the equipment they 80-90 tonne gangway installations on OSVs under fast- will connect to, and installed by the same team that track class approval, integration of a 325-tonne vertical lay built them. The yard window collapses from weeks system on a 157-metre construction vessel, and PSV con- of build-and-debug into days of bolt-and-commission.

versions with new structural accommodation modules and

The argument is not theoretical. It comes from fve years mezzanine extensions. The Technology Centre extends of doing the work and seeing where the model breaks. Two that delivery model across the full scope of offshore mobil- areas in particular beneft most directly from in-house pro- isation work: gangways, W2W systems, LARS, A-frames, duction capability: offshore mobilisations and electrical mission decks, ROV spreads, containerised accommoda- retroft packages.

tion, towers and deck structures.

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