In 2003, we designed a box steel pontoon for the Tate to Tate Riverboat service. Damien Hirst, the artist who decorated the Riverboats with his infamous coloured dots, was present for the launch of the service from our pontoons.
Built using the same build principle as The Royal Arsenal Pier Woolwich though with a much more complicated shape – pontoon concept shape design Marks Barfield Architects. Pontoon steelwork design – Shane Carr.
The 45 metre x 15 metre pontoon being launched.
The pontoon was a series of triangles which challenged the 3D Cad programme at the time.
The Pier is used by up to 1000 tonne river cruisers.
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The moorings are radial arms to piles. The brow is working as a strut, holding the pontoon in the stream.
The radial arm and pontoon mooring design was by Beckett Rankine.
Steel brow from Millbank onto floating pontoon.
Interior of the Thames Riverboat box steel pontoon.
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