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Naval Architecture

Naval Architecture

Our Rosenblatt Marine Technical Division (RMTD) provides a wide range of Naval Architectural services spanning concept design through detail design and continuing into a ship’s life cycle with maintenance, operation, dry docking and modifications. Complex tradeoffs are studied to achieve optimum solutions meeting customer requirements.

Our capabilities include:

  • Creating the hull form
  • Calculating the intact stability
  • Creating floodable length curves
  • Testing vessels
  • Creating resistance and propulsion graphs
  • Structural analysis
  • Arranging ship’s machinery, equipment, and habitability spaces

Environmental Engineering

Environmental Engineering

Our Rosenblatt Marine Technical Division (RMTD) has extensive experience in many different areas of environmental engineering. We have the experience and expertise to solve problems related to wastes generated from ship operations, such as bilgewater, graywater, and ballast. We solve important problems regarding the generation and disposal of waste. We also provide assessments and information to ship operators who are responding to regulatory authorities regarding local requirements for discharges.

Key Areas

  • Bilgewater Treatment
  • Sewage and Graywater Handling and Treatment
  • Ballast Water Management
  • EPA Vessel General Permit Assistance
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Marine Electrical

Marine Electrical

Our Rosenblatt Marine Technical Division (RMTD) maintains an electrical engineering staff with broad electrical systems design and analysis experience in feasibility studies, new ship designs, major conversions, overhauls, and repairs. We are proficient in the application of U.S. Navy specifications, as well as USCG, ABS, SOLAS, IEEE-Std-45, IEC, COLREGS, and NEC requirements. We have experience providing direct support to customers such as NAVSEA, USCG ELC, MSC HQ, NOAA, and commercial shipyards. Our electrical engineers have a reputation of communicating with the customer in order to provide solutions that meet and exceed customer expectations.

Products

  • Arc Flash Studies
  • CDRL Technical Reviews
  • Electric Plant Load Analysis
  • Electrical One-Line Diagram
  • Elementary and Block Wiring Diagrams
  • Engineering Change Proposals
  • Fault Current Analysis
  • Feasibility and Trade-off Studies
  • Lighting Systems Illumination Calculations
  • Power and Lighting Systems Design Drawings
  • Procurement Specifications
  • Protective Device Coordination Study
  • Ship Change Documents
  • Ship Specifications
  • Voltage Drop Calculations

Areas of Expertise

  • Power Generation
  • Power Distribution
  • Electric Propulsion Systems
  • Lighting Systems
  • Interior Communication Systems
  • Auxiliary Machinery Control Systems
  • Navigation Systems

Engineering Management

Engineering Management

The Columbia Group’s program management services provide leading edge tools, processes, and expertise focused on the government shipbuilding industry. An experienced and analytical approach to project management leads to collecting the right metrics to provide accurate benchmarking and organizational assessments to drive project success. From the initial project planning through final test and evaluation, The Columbia Group manages cost, maintains schedule, mitigates risk, and promotes quality to insure stakeholder value for both internal and external customers.

In addition to being knowledgeable of all types of ship systems, the staff of our Rosenblatt Marine Technical Division (RMTD) has extensive shipboard operating and design experience and consequently understands the end user’s perspective. In addition to detail designs, we provide logistics solutions that ensure that the new systems can be effectively and efficiently operated.  

We have performed numerous alteration designs for:

  • Systems Engineering
  • Scheduling
  • Risk Management
  • Configuration Management
  • Requirements Management
  • Test and Evaluation
  • Quality Management
  • Earned Value Management
  • Cost Estimating and Budgeting
  • Communication Management
  • Maintenance Planning
  • Technology and Market Surveys
  • Strategic Planning
  • Organizational Change Management
  • Process Improvement
  • Stakeholder Analysis
  • Business Process Reengineering
  • Business Intelligence
  • Root Cause Analysis