Floating pontoons

Floating pontoons

These days floating pontoons are used everywhere, for new marinas and for the refurbishment of existing harbours, thanks to their manoeuvrability, durability and performance. Their almost total indifference to the depth of seabed, speed of installation, the ability to gradually enlarge existing installations at low and controlled costs, have led to their rapid and wide distribution as an excellent alternative to traditional fixed pontoons. Their specific conditions of application and functional requirements mean they are constructed with different floating configurations (continuous or discontinuous), materials, flotation units and walkway deck finishing.

The options for standard discontinuous floating pontoons are as follows:

• frames: in galvanised steel, galvanised and painted steel, or in aluminium alloy;
• floating units: in concrete or rotomoulded polyethylene, both with expanded polystyrene core;
• deck finishing: in exotic hardwoods or composite materials.

Monolithic pontoons are in reinforced concrete, all-concrete type, decks are in concrete or, alternatively, in tropical hardwood or composite materials.

Standard modules, for mooring recreational craft, have widths of between 1.6m and 3m and lengths of 8m to 12m. Freeboard varies from 55cm to 80cm and have a maximum distributed live load of between 150-400kg/m2.

Floating piers are also available as standard to assure greater performances. Standard pontoon and more complex tailor made projects are certified by RINA (Italian Register of Shipping) or other international classification societies.