Drawing Review and Design Assurance
Structural, arrangement, outfit, vendor, and production drawing reviews with clear, prioritized comments.
Commercial Naval Architecture Consulting
Naval Architecture support for commercial maritime projects
Thornton Maritime Technologies helps shipyards, vessel owners, and marine engineering teams review, solve, and deliver buildable, class-ready vessel design packages and engineering analysis.
Commercial maritime design, review, and production support.
A decade plus
marine vessel design and engineering experience
CEng
Chartered Engineer / PE-equivalent background
Yard-side
practical production and class coordination support
Services
Senior design review and Naval Architecture support
Focused support for teams that need clear technical judgment, practical buildability review, and disciplined coordination across owner, designer, yard, class, and vendor interfaces.
Modification and Retrofit Support
Practical support for vessel upgrades, equipment integration, local reinforcement, and stability impacts.
Stability and Naval Architecture
Hydrostatics, loading conditions, weight-control support, inclining support, and class submission support.
Structural Design Support
Local structure, foundations, reinforcement concepts, repair support, and design-for-production review.
Yard-Side Production Support
Support for RFIs, drawing discrepancies, construction issues, and practical production questions.
Class and Regulatory Coordination
Support for comments, submission packages, technical clarifications, and coordination with approval bodies.
Capabilities
Built for commercial teams that need experienced Naval Architecture capacity
Support for workboat, ferry, tug, barge, passenger vessel, research vessel, repair-yard, conversion-yard, and offshore wind support vessel projects.
Capability areas
- Vessel modification and retrofit design support
- Drawing review and design assurance
- Stability, hydrostatics, and weight-control support
- Structural concepts, foundations, and local reinforcement
Services provided
- Class and regulatory submission support
- Production RFI and drawing discrepancy support
- Yard, owner, designer, vendor, and class coordination
- Senior Naval Architect overflow support for engineering teams
Approach
Clear technical judgment, practical comments, accountable follow-through
Find the issues that matter
Identify design, stability, structural, production, and class risks before they become expensive field problems.
Turn comments into usable actions
Prioritize comments, explain the engineering basis, and keep recommendations grounded in buildability.
Bridge the project interfaces
Support clear communication between the owner, yard, designer, class, vendors, and production teams.
Contact
Start with a concise project note
Send the vessel type, project stage, drawing or analysis need, timeline, and the decision you need support on.
info@thorntonmaritime.com