Client: City of Kodiak
Owner: City of Kodiak
Cost of Work: $27 million

The City of Kodiak recently expanded St. Herman Harbor to accommodate the larger vessels of their commercial fishing fleet. The new floating dock system consists of a 16-feet (4.9 m) wide mainwalk and fingers designed to support vessels up to 150-feet (45.7m) in length. Strong winds of 110 miles-per-hour, 45-foot (14m) water depths, and shallow bedrock required float piles to be socketed into the bedrock to sustain the severe loading conditions of this region.

The design for St. Herman Harbor included surveys, soils exploration, a wave study, structural analysis, permitting and construction administration services for the new 31,000 square foot (2,880 square meter) floating concrete facility. Some of the key features of this design included developing a substantial enough concrete float system to accommodate the large vessels and developing the pile frame lateral and tension loads in the shallow overburden. The project was constructed as part of a $9 million dollar harbor project that also included the reconstruction of St. Paul Harbor. The St. Herman portion of the project was approximately $4.5 million and was completed early in 2000.