Client

Port Authority of New York & New Jersey

Location

New York City Metropolitan Area / New York Harbor

Completion Date

2020

Markets

Government

Division

Engineering

Discipline

Underwater / Marine

Boswell has been providing waterfront and underwater inspections/investigations for PANY/NJ in the New York Harbor continually since 1989.

To date, Boswell has worked effectively and expediently on more than 350 assignments for the PANY & NJ, many of them concurrently and often requiring the fielding of four inspection dive teams during a single workday.  The majority of the services provided involved condition surveys of waterfront facilities such as piers, wharves, bulkheads, relieving platforms, and ferry terminals comprised of timber, steel, concrete, and composite structural members.  More than 150 of these assignments involved quality assurance diving inspections during marine construction to assess the contractor’s compliance with contract documents.  Thirty of these projects entailed both statistical random sampling and judgment sampling techniques to assess the full extent of biodeterioration caused by marine borer intrusion of timber structures. Lastly, core sampling techniques have been used to assess levels of Teredo infestation.

Boswell is proud of our 35-year relationship with the PANY/NJ.