We help clients from every sector of the industry execute challenging marine projects. Whether it’s mid-life upgrades to extend the life of a research vessel, or the stability of a refurbished crane barge, our design and engineering solutions are rooted in a comprehensive understanding of all things marine. Explore our areas of service.
Our naval architecture services include the design, engineering, and analysis of hull forms, structural configurations, and arrangements for new and existing vessels. We use static and dynamic finite element analysis (FEA) for structural analysis and incorporate computational fluid dynamics (CFD) optimization into the hull form development process. Glosten provides efficient hull design with consideration to stability, seakeeping, speed and power, maneuvering requirements, bubble sweepdown, and underwater radiated noise.
Our marine engineering services span from concept development to detail design, testing, and operations. Hands-on vessel and shipyard experience informs our approach, designing systems that meet owner and regulatory requirements and make vessels easier to build, operate, and maintain. We have close relationships with manufacturers to ensure that we can recommend the right equipment for our clients—whether it’s an innovative new technology or a time-tested industry standard.
Our marine electrical engineering capabilities cover all aspects of electrical engineering including power generation and distribution, lighting, interior communications, bridge electronics, and monitoring, alarms, and control systems. We provide electrical integration services to ensure that multiparty designs are integrated as a single system.
We specialize in the numerical modeling of floating structures with emphasis on hydrodynamic analysis, climatology, and dynamic mooring models in service of vessel operators, marine civil engineers, and contractors performing challenging in-water projects. Glosten offers vessel motion and seakeeping analysis together with ship maneuvering simulation, site-specific wind and wave climatology, and CFD for hull performance evaluation and optimization.
Whether detailing a major construction package, consulting on new shipbuilding technology, modeling a complex equipment module, or developing a material take-off, Glosten’s production engineering team works directly with clients, engineers, naval architects, vendors, and shipyards to translate early-phase design into production-ready design packages. Using a client-focused approach, we adapt the output of any project to meet our clients’ needs.
Glosten supports clients through shipyard qualification and selection, bid review and contract negotiations, construction management, testing, trials, delivery, and warranty services. We serve as owner’s representatives, advocating for owners and guiding them through the construction or modification of new and existing vessels to reduce project risk. We provide complete on-site program management assistance including provision of qualified program managers and teams for construction inspection, commissioning, and testing.
Glosten provides technical support and consulting to owners and operators for new vessel acquisitions programs, refurbishments projects, and fleet condition surveys in support of capital improvement planning. We provide technical advice on available technologies; analyze the technical feasibility and performance of marine transportation alternatives and associated acquisition, operating, and lifecycle costs; and help clients assess the risks associated with complex marine operations.
Glosten’s subsidiary, Noise Control Engineering, LLC (NCE), specializes in noise and vibration measurement and control for marine applications, predicting and controlling underwater radiated noise, sonar self-noise, and habitability noise on ferries, research vessels, small high-speed craft, workboats, ice-breakers, combatants, naval surface ships, and offshore structures. NCE’s team of noise and vibration specialists are fully integrated into Glosten’s project teams to help design, develop, and engineer noise control solutions for radiated noise problems.
Glosten is constantly striving to improve our processes and the quality of our work. We carry ISO 9001 certification for our Quality Management System to demonstrate this commitment to our partners and uphold these rigorous standards internally. Our quality process ensures our team’s use of appropriate technical methodology, technical and regulatory accuracy, and consistency.
