Client: Sesco Cement at the Port of Houston
Location: Houston, TX
Sector: Marine
Services Provided: Civil, Structural, Mechanical, & Electrical Engineering
Infinity provided the engineering designs for a new wharf deck that was placed over an existing 100-year-old timber wharf along a ship-turning basin. The new wharf deck was designed to accommodate a new 175 lb. rail system for a ship unloader. The deck was also designed to support HS-20 18-wheeler loads and a live load of 150 pounds per square foot.
Infinity’s designs included 14-inch square pre-stressed concrete piles, at multiple lengths that supported cantilevered concrete beams with bundled bars and a hollow core concrete panel system, with slab topping, to support loads. Other designed elements included a crane restraint to high winds, 50 and 100-ton capacity mooring bollards, and a marine fendering system for Handymax class (35,000-45,000 DWT) ships.
Additionally, Infinity designed a new crane rail system to support a ship unloader crane on a new 800 linear foot concrete wharf, with HS-20 capable top deck loads, built on top of an existing 100+-year-old dock, along a ship turning basin, at the Port of Houston. Infinity designed concrete beams with bundled bars and utilization of a hollow core concrete panel system to speed construction.
The crane was designed to hold down locations to prevent overtopping during a hurricane as well as rail stops for the crane to prevent overtravel. Infinity also provided support to field construction crews.
