Buoyancy & Platforms

Obtaining high buoyancy and being able to offer a range of variable configurations was a paramount objective whilst designing the Xrosswater product. With lightweight structural strength aluminum extrusions attaching the thermoformed floatation units and creating the inherent backbone to the system, the product offers a universal solution to your requirements. Further information should be obtained prior to ordering large platforms, as wave motion, anchoring and weight displacement factors need to considered, together with the use of additional cross-bracing to strengthen against wave roll.

Figure 1 Illustrates a 4.5m x 4.5m platform with a 1.5m x 1.5m aperture in the centre for possible pump or lifting gear utility offering a total 4000kg of buoyancy or a suggested safe working buoyancy of 2000Kg.

Figure 2 illustrates a 7.5m x 4.5m platform with a 4.5m x 1.5m aperture in the centre for possible double pump utility offering 6000kg of buoyancy or a suggested safe working buoyancy of 3000kg.

Figure 3 illustrates the underside of a 6m x 6m platform that could be used for possibly leisure and recreational purposes or to support pumps, hoppers, generators, transformers etc. The platform offers 8000kg of buoyancy; however, a suggested safe working buoyancy would be approximately 6000kg. We would also like to advise that further information should be obtained prior to ordering such a platform, as wave motion, anchoring and weight displacement factors need to considered, together with the use of additional cross-bracing to strengthen such a large platform.