Design appraisal
Increasing confidence in the future performance of your
ship
The shipbuilding process is full of commercial risks concerning
technical production issues, build schedules, regulatory
compliance, and associated costs. In order to ensure that risks are
effectively managed throughout your ships life, it is essential
that it incorporates the best in shipbuilding practice and
technology.
What is design appraisal?
Lloyds Register provides a proactive design appraisal service
using skilled personnel with a flexible approach. We seek to
address your business risks, while examining your designs for
compliance with the relevant Rules, codes and standards.
Getting involved at an early stage, we identify critical areas
that must be addressed during construction, bringing increased
confidence in the design, construction and future performance of
your ship.
Our systematic approach and commitment to excellence gives you
greater confidence that your ships structure, machinery, safety
equipment and related systems meet prevailing international
regulations and specified design requirements, as well as our own
benchmark Rules.
What are the benefits?
Design appraisal identifies critical areas for construction and
through-life inspection and maintenance.
- It improves confidence in the integrity of the hull, essential
machinery, and critical safety items.
- Our early involvement at the design stage reduces the potential
for delays during construction.
- The input of our knowledge and experience helps yard designs to
evolve through the adoption of best practice.
How does Lloyds Register help?
Through-life service
We work with a specific view to helping improve your business
performance from design concept onwards, throughout the life of the
ship. We capture critical data for use throughout the
classification process this can be managed online through
ClassDirect Live, providing the first step for a full service
history.
Tailored software solutions
We offer far more than compliance alone. We also provide a
series of tailored software solutions that support our design
appraisal service:
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RulesCalc, which allows the designer to check the compliance of
the design with Lloyds Register Rules at any time during the design
process.
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ShipRight structural design
assessment (SDA) and ShipRight fatigue design assessment (FDA),
which evaluate structural integrity and fatigue
performance.
What next?
If you would like to progress your enquiry further please choose
one of the following: