AMI Consulting Engineers P.A.

Special Projects

“Where Engineering Disciplines Overlap and Blend is Where AMI Excels”

AMI Consulting Engineers P.A. has the experience needed to quickly efficiently implement tried and true solutions to known problems, but they are quick recognize unique issues and to create new and innovative designs to best suite the project goals. The Engineers of AMI pride themselves in their involvement with truly unique projects and will feature a few examples of projects that exemplify our dedication to special engineering issues.

Great Ships Initiative

The Great Ships Initiative, Land-Based Research, Development and Technology Evaluation (RDTE) Facility in Superior, WI is used to conduct full-scale testing of prospective ballast treatments suitable for the treatment of invasive species in the ballast water of commercial ships. This is one of a very few facilities that can perform this type of testing and the only facility globally that is dedicated to testing in fresh water.

AMI Consulting Engineers refined the preliminary design produced by the Maritime Administration to produce a facility that balanced the goals of mimicking the ballast system on board a commercial vessel and having the control to perform repeatable testing that is expected from laboratory testing. AMI was involved in the design and the project management of its original construction in 2006. GSI was sufficiently pleased with AMI’s performance to continue their involvement with the facility expansions, modifications, treatment system installs, and facility operations management to this day. This facility proves that AMI can offer a full range of engineering specialties including fluid mechanics, structural design, mechanical design, surveying, permitting, project management, utilities, finite element analysis, automation and facility design.

For more information on the RDTE Facility and the goals of the Great Ships Initiative please visit them at: www.greatshipsinitiative.org.

Advanced Corrosion Study

In 1998 during a routine dive inspection, Mr. Scott discovered a high degree of corrosion on the H-Piling at the U.S. Coast Guard Station, Duluth. From his previous experience in inspecting structures in salt, brackish and fresh water, Mr. Scott recognized the unusual nature of this corrosion in the fresh water environment in the Duluth / Superior Harbor. Although Mr. Scott reported the issues from 1998 to 2003 to individual governmental agencies and private companies, it took until 2003 to gather and compile enough global information from all the sites inspected throughout the harbor to convince the general industry that a global corrosion problem existed. Mr. Scott’s company and individual efforts in support of the study since 2003 has contributed to the current knowledge base on the accelerated corrosion problem here in the Duluth / Superior Harbor.

  • AWS Certified Weld Inspections
  • Load Testing of Existing Structures
  • Expert Witness Testimony
  • Forensic Analysis
  • Hazwoper Trained Personnel
  • Bathymetric / Hydrographic Surveys
  • Commercial Hard Hat Divers
  • NBIS Certified Bridge Inspections
  • Specialty Underwater Imaging
  • Peer / Design Review
  • Video & Still Underwater Reporting