Drake Associates staff has experience managing projects ranging from low-budget, high-visibility international projects to programs ranging to over $300 million per year. We provide our clients comprehensive management services including all permitting, management and construction of your project. We use web-based management techniques to ensure our clients has access to all project data through our web site, and to provide our field supervisors the capability to enter real-time data from remote locations. We pride ourselves in successfully managing complex, high-risk operations. We eagerly embrace the unique, non-traditional, extra-difficult jobs and employ the most up-to-date management and cost-control methods including: |
Critical Path |
Earned Value |
Integrated Product Teams |
Cost As an Independent Variable |
Value Engineering |
Design-To-Cost. |
Structural Inspection of underwater facilities and infrastructures, including “PEER” the world’s only non-destructive system for detecting and measuring damage in timber piles due to marine borers. Inspection and Maintenance of submarine cable runs, pipelines, and outfalls. Underwater Structural Rehabilitation of piles, piers, abutments, bulkheads, relieving platforms, dolphin and other bearing or fendering units. Sonar Services including electro-acoustic fathometric survey, side-scan sonar, precision cross-sectional profiling and sub-bottom sonar capabilities. Design and In-Water Repair and Replacement of Wastewater treatment facility systems. Underwater Non-Destructive Testing : Core sampling, sediment sampling, sub-bottom imaging and ultrasonic thickness measurement. Underwater Remotely Operated Vehicles (ROV) - Inspection services with pipeline penetration runs up to 3,600'. Waterfront Construction of steel sheetpile bulkheads, wooden bulkheads, floating docks, piers, and breakwaters. System Design and Engineering of commercial and military systems. We leverage our extensive operational experience to engineer reliable and efficient electronic and mechanical systems to improve our operational capabilities. |