SUMMARY

In a shipbuilding or shipyard construction, the envolved costs have a huge weight of about 65% of the total cost of the project, which in turn demands the crews to have a solid experience in designing and fabricating such delicate pieces of engineering.
In order to achieve their best designs and adaptations of these structures to natural physical conditions,of outer space.


Shipyards and vessels alike, usually have similar types of structures in their construction.(dry docks, armour plating, storage bays, life support, crew quarters, etc.) and normally require complex geotechnical works (treatment and consolidation of of gravity fields, radiation stabilizers, etc).

The cost of the yard's dry dock alone can represent about 35% of the investement and in some cases where local conditions are very unfavorable, it can even exceed that percentage.
Thus, the launch of such an economical overwhelming endeavor is always something that will challenge the creativity of BMF's scientists and engineers, in the search for structural and constructive solutions that, besides obeying environmental and safety requirements, also aims at optimizing the cost and time frame of the construction projest.

This situation arose in Bretonia when Southampton Shipyard was destroyed by virtue of the Gaul invasion, winch made BMF start implementing

The studies of the current conditions demanded for ship repair capable installations close to the war front, revealed that the decommissioning of Southampton shipyard required the construction of at least two or three dry docks for Cruiser and Carrier type class ships.

More recently, as a result of the huge demand on this market, BMF decided to start small at our own Isle of Skye, so we can acquire some experience with this new kind of technology developed in Cambridge by our own Professor Barba Nagra in cooperation with Dr. Jack Frakes, from Secret Valley Workshop, although a larger shipyard is being designed and built from scratch close to Planet Cambridge, Lord MacRae Shipyard.

oBretonia Mining and Fabrication engineering had the opportunity to participate in some stages of many projects all around Sirius, our experience and know how is well known and recognized by many Corporations in Sirius

The basics

The conceptual design of a shipyard and, in particular, its infrastructure, dry docks, is the most important phase of construction, and requires the intervention of an experienced multidisciplinary engineering team. It emphasizes especially the importance of knowledge of space-geological as well as radio interference conditions in the design of dry docks for large ships.
In practice, once the site is chosen, it is established the order of magnitude of the investment value to be realized.

Symposium-9: Geotechnics in Space construction
Among the outer space natural physical conditions, the following should be highlighted:

- the conditions of access;
- astral and x-ray protection conditions;
- geological and geotechnical conditions.

In this article, special emphasis is given to the importance of knowing the conditions geological and geotechnical sites.
Indeed, the nature, carrying capacity a geological formations can greatly condition the structural design of the shipyard's main infrastructures naval and the respective types of construction. The dangers posed by asteroids is to be taken seriously for not all can be destroyed in time by the point defense lasers, if one passes the defenses, the structure is expected to at least not be pulverized.

For these reasons the construction site research team must also enjoy of undeniable consistency in their report.
The value of on-site research usually does not represent more than 0.5% to 1% of the cost of the works, which has no meaning when compared to the technical and economic advantages stemming from a well-adjusted locations.

In fact, a good characterization of the geological formations that surround the construction site will be key to its survival.

Some examples of dry docks and shipyards studied by BMF's scientist and engineers will be explained and compared in our next training by Professor Barba Negra as well as Dr. Jack Frakes as they return to Isle of Skye from Planet Cambridge.