The U.S. Coast Guard (USCG) land-based ship handling facility at Curtis Bay Yard in Baltimore, MD is a historic, active facility. Designed to lift vessels out of the water and transport them to onshore workstations for repair, the facility underwent an extensive $22 million development. STV provided the conceptual design for the facility, including topographic surveys, assessments of existing bulkhead and subsurface investigations.
The facility can accommodate vessels up to 378 feet in length. Major components of the upgraded facility include two 334-foot-long piers, a 270-foot-long vessel lift platform, a marginal wharf and onshore paved workstations. Because environmental impact was a concern, STV also developed mitigation strategies to address air and water quality issues, supporting sustainability for the facility’s long-term use.
