An engineer, who is liable for design, built and repairs of marine vessels and offshore compositions can be called as a naval architect.

The term marine vessel not only include ships but they also refer to submarines, tugs, power boats, yachts, catamarans, barges, fishing boats, merchant ships, ferries, cruise ships, icebreakers, warships, and much more. At the same time, offshore compositions comprise of semi-submersibles, drilling platforms, subsea deliveries and all other oil and gas offshore products and installations.

Importance of a Naval Architect

Naval architects are specialized in a range of marine fields and are responsible for all marine vessels and their vital maritime activities which include transportation, shipment, dredging, offshore drilling and so on. A naval architect working at shipyards, design firms, consultancies, navies and government sectors with modern engineering aspects has to have efficient managerial skills bringing together the entire team and their contributions effectively. Naval architecture is basically the discipline comprising of everything related to marine vehicles, right from design, built, research and development to repairing services and hence a naval architect apart from leading the team for an ideal marine vessel; is also responsible for its safety, feasibility and economic values. Naval architect marking significant changes at each decision ought to have extensive knowledge on all disciplines of naval architecture and maritime engineering in addition to the latest expertise, tools and techniques of the industry.

What comes under the rightful boundaries of a Naval Architect

Naval architect maintain perfect coordination with technically skilled people like scientists, marine engineers, marine surveyors, accountants, entrepreneurs, mariners, and seafarers as they cope up with the rising intricacy of marine environment and its changing needs. A Naval architect determines the vessel development which includes its detailed drawings, design, size and structure, floatability, hull development, propelling speed, hydrodynamic analysis, boilers, stability to face adverse conditions and all its other wide ranging requirements.

In short anything and everything related to a marine vessel, design, its making, development, launch to repairing services and renovation comes under the rightful boundaries of a naval architect.

At Aries Marine and Engineering Services U.A.E, we have a team of specialized naval architects meeting the requirements of various areas including design consultancy, thickness gauging, non-destructive testing, marine survey, marine software, project management, technical documentation and yacht interiors.