Standards Development

Scope

This part of BS 6349 gives recommendations and guidance for general criteria relevant to the planning, design, construction, maintenance and decommissioning of structures and facilities set in the maritime environment. It also gives recommendations and guidance regarding safety, environmental and operational matters that are to be taken into account when planning and designing maritime and coastal works.

It includes a description of the various physical environmental conditions that are to be taken into account for investigation at a coastal site, and provides recommendations and information for methods of survey and data collection.

It is applicable to coastal, nearshore, estuarine and inland marine facilities for safe navigation, berthing, mooring, loading, unloading and servicing of ships, barges and other forms of waterborne transport and the associated infrastructure, equipment and works at the ship-shore interface. It is also applicable to other civil infrastructure works at the waterfront or coastal margin such as dredging, reclamation, shoreline flood and coastal erosion risk management and to recreational infrastructure such as marinas.

NOTE 1 The BS 6349 series is also partly applicable to other applications such as wave effects on lakes and reservoirs.

NOTE 2 The BS 6349 series might be applicable to types of floating LNG installation (such as FSRUs and FSUs) as described in BS ISO 20257 which are permanently or semi-permanently moored to a jetty or similar structure at an inshore or protected location.

This part of BS 6349 does not cover offshore structures for the petroleum and natural gas industries, which are specified in BS EN ISO 19900 and BS EN ISO 19901.

NOTE 3 Recommendations for ground investigation are covered in in BS 6349-1-3.