Company Overview

Robert Allan Ltd. is Canada's oldest privately owned Consulting Naval Architectural firm, established in Vancouver, B. C. in 1930. The company has earned an international reputation for innovative, successful designs for a wide range of specialized workboats and small ships. The firm has been a leader in creating cost-efficient vessels for service in the Canadian tug and barge, fishing and ferry industries on both coasts and for the Mackenzie River and Beaufort Sea. Robert Allan Ltd.'s experience includes designs for hundreds of vessels of almost all types, from small craft to ocean-going ferries and barges, however the firm is best known for its work in the following fields:

• Tug and barge transportation
• Ship assist and escort tugs
• Patrol boats and catamarans
• Passenger Ferries (traditional and catamarans)
• Fireboats
• Supply vessels
• Shallow draft towboats
• Icebreakers
• Government Service vessels:
• fisheries patrol
• search and rescue
• navigation aids
• oceanographic research

Robert Allan Ltd. provides professional marine consulting and design services to a worldwide client base, supported by the very latest in computer-aided design and drafting technology.

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Additional Details

Legal Name: Robert Allan Ltd.

Number of Employees: 25

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Services

• Computer-aided Design And Drafting (cadd) Systems And Training

  Robert Allan Ltd. was a leader in introducing CADD technology into ship design offices in Canada. All design and drafting operations are now highly automated, based on more than 15 years in the medium. A wide range of software is available, both proprietary and in-house to expedite all aspects of the design process, including:

  • hull form development and lines-fairing,
  • shell and parts development for NC cutting
  • hydrostatics and stability
  • resistance and powering calculations
  • scantling calculations to Class rules
  • structural design
  • finite element analysis
  • piping system design
  • project management and scheduling
• Engineering Calculations And Analysis

  Robert Allan Ltd.'s engineering staff offer consulting services in all aspects of marine engineering. Typical services include:

  • Stability analysis
  • Noise and vibration analysis and control
  • Emergency repair analysis
  • Propeller performance evaluation
  • Electrical systems design
  • Machinery and structural vibration measurement
  • Structural strain monitoring
  • Seakeeping Trials
  • Speed and manoeuvring trials
  • Bollard pull trials
• Finite Element Analysis

  Robert Allan Ltd. provides Structural analysis using the Finite Element Method of overall vessel structure or components to determine stress and deflection characteristics.

• Marine Consultants And Engineers

  Robert Allan Ltd. is frequently required to perform analytical work related to a variety of maritime activities. This work includes:

  • Marine transportation systems
  • Economic analyses
  • Vessel operations
  • Construction cost estimates and evaluations
  • Provision of 'expert witness' services relating to ship design

  performance and stability.

  • Testing & Trials supervision
  • Noise and vibration analysis and control
  • Emergency repair analysis
  • Shaft system analysis
  • Propeller performance evaluation
  • Electrical systems design
  • Structural strain monitoring
  • Seakeeping trials
  • Speed and manoeuvring trials
  • Bollard pull trials
  • Stability analysis
  • Sound level measurements
  • Machinery and structural vibration measurement
• Marine Legal Consultancy

  Robert Allan Ltd. is frequently required to perform analytical work related to a variety of maritime activities. This work includes marine transportation systems, economic analyses, vessel operations, construction cost estimates and evaluations and the provision of 'expert witness' services relating to ship design, performance and stability.

• Model Testing

  Robert Allan Ltd. provides the services of model test management, supervision, analysis and reporting.

• Naval Architects

  Robert Allan Ltd. has earned an international reputation for innovative, successful designs for a wide range of specialized workboats and small ships. Robert Allan Ltd.'s experience includes designs for hundreds of vessels of almost all types from small craft to ocean-going ferries and barges.

• Project/Program Management

  Robert Allan Ltd. manages and supervises large and small marine projects such as vessel construction and/or modifications and upgrades.

• Propeller Calculations, Drawings And Performance Curves
• Propulsion And Power Systems

  Robert Allan Ltd.'s naval architectural staff provides:

  • propeller design,
  • propeller optimization and analysis,
  • remedial investigation of propulsion systems
  • speed and resistance prediction
  • speed and resistance analysis.
• Systems Engineering

  Robert Allan Ltd. also provides the design of shipboard piping and machinery systems.

• Transportation-arctic And Otherwise

  Robert Allan Ltd. has completed a number of successful designs especially suited for the arctic/Northern environment such as ice-breakers, navigational aids vessels and shallow-draft vessels.

• Underwater Technology
• Vibration Analysis And Control

  Robert Allan Ltd. provides noise and vibration analysis and control ensuring the correct identification of both problems and solutions.

NAICS Categories

• 541310 Architectural Services
• 541330 Engineering Services

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