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Appendix B: Lessons from Other Organizations for Best Available and Safest Technologies Implementation
Pages 56-59

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... The society issues the certificate 1 IACS members are as follows: American Bureau of Shipping, Bureau Veritas, China Classification Society, Croatian Register of Shipping, Det Norske Veritas, Germanischer Lloyd, Indian Register of Shipping, Korean Register of Shipping, Lloyd's Register, Nippon Kaiji Kyokai, Polish Register of Shipping, RINA, and Russian Maritime Register of Shipping. See http://iacs.org.uk/Explained/members.aspx.
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From page 57...
... Class rules are developed and updated by technical committees consisting of eminent industry representatives from around the world who are experts in their field. The classification process consists of the following:  Technical review of design drawings and related documents by class engineers to verify compliance with applicable class rules;  Attendance at the shipyard by class surveyors during construction of the vessel or offshore structure and at relevant production facilities of key components to verify that the construction and products are in accordance with class rules;  Issuance of a classification certificate when the preceding steps have been satisfactorily completed; and  Once a vessel or offshore structure is in service, the performance by class surveyors of periodic surveys on board to verify that it is maintained to the applicable class rules over the lifetime that the vessel or structure remains in class.
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From page 58...
... MARINTEK's facilities include several laboratories. Among them are the Ship Model Tank for hydrodynamic performance investigations of ships in waves; the Ocean Basin Laboratory for testing and verification of marine and offshore structures in various ocean and wind environments; and the Energy–Machinery Laboratory for testing of experimental equipment, instrumentation, and data acquisition systems.
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From page 59...
... Proximity to a university allows joint use of university laboratories and equipment and access to university research and faculty personnel, including retirees. Opportunities arise for a broad network of knowledge and research through international cooperation and collaboration with industry and other research organizations.
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Key Terms

  • class rules
  • ocean energy
  • offshore structure
  • classification society
  • faculty personnel

  • safety institute
  • offshore drilling
  • offshore oil
  • petroleum research
  • offshore structures

  • safest technologies
  • environmental enforcement
  • energy safety
  • service life
  • class surveyors

  • gas industries
  • applicable class
  • public sector
  • extensive database
  • development staff

  • specified tasks
  • ship model
  • germanischer lloyd
  • performance evaluation
  • compiling data

  • societies maintain
  • cable class
  • data acquisition
  • university laboratories
  • design drawings


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