The Special Commission for Sport and Pleasure Navigation of PIANC has identified as a result of work undertaken by various working groups a lack of appropriate design criteria for the design of floating mooring pontoons in marinas and other leisure installations.
As a consequence, the Commission felt it appropriate to undertake an informal review of current design criteria, with the work being undertaken directly by Commission members. This document has been drawn up which brings together relevant design criteria from the United States, Australia and Europe and lists the appropriate design parameters for the relevant national standard. The opportunity is also taken to compare and contrast the different standards so as to give the designer the opportunity to select proven parameters that are perhaps more suitable for a particular installation. It is not the intention of the authors of this document to set down a particular set of international standards, but merely to provide information from various world-wide sources and pass technical comment upon the relevant standards.
The Commission and the authors have undertaken to review the document regularly and suggestions, alterations or new standards would be willingly received by the authors for future reviews.
