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Dirkmarine is your trusted specialist within naval architecture and marine engineering.
Our main product is our reinforced concrete hull HUBB® (HoUse Boat Bottom). HUBB® has a 100-year maintenance free design life, and is specifically designed to be a dependable and stable everlasting floating foundation for houseboats, floating homes and other floating structures.
For 25 years we have designed and constructed unique turn-key floating homes and other structures in a wide variety of shapes and sizes. All products comprise a floatation HUBB® with a specific purpose or superstructure / dwelling on top.
The HUBB® may be equipped with the integrated DHHS® (Dirkmarine Hydro Heating System), a unique integrated energy recovery system, which extracts energy from the surrounding seawater for cost effective heating, cooling and production of warm water.
100 + Floating homes, multi apartments, restaurants, music and performance stages, sauna’s, swimming pools, gyms, parking solutions, and much more has been delivered.
While Dirkmarine is a Danish-based company founded in Copenhagen, we have expanded our production to many other countries. We are committed to go and deliver in any region requiring our services.
100 years design life - Concrete Hull HUBB®
The Dirkmarine HUBB® is designed to be everlasting and maintenance free in salt water in all regions of the world. With a 100 year design life according to European codes, the product is protected and resistant to all impacts thrown at it.
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The Dirkmarine HUBB® is at the forefront of reinforced concrete design, and has a 25 year faultless track record. The HUBB® is designed to live up to these parameters:
- 100 years design life
- Maintenance Free
- Large weight – calm and comfortable behaviour of the structure on top
- Superior Strength – as tunnels and bridges in reinforced concrete
- No surface treatment or paints
- No anodes
- No regulatory dockings
- Can be dyed in various colours
- Fast fabrication
- Customizable in all shapes, dimensions and purposes
- Suitable for one off production or series production
- Rigid, solid and dependable foundation for any superstructure
- Sustains falling dry at low tide
- Verified according to the rules of Det Norske Veritas
- Approved by the maritime authorities of Denmark and United Kingdom
- Approvable by all authorities globally
HUBB® is a registered trademark in Denmark and EU
We have designed and produced the Dirkmarine HUBB® throughout the past 25 years in various shapes for various purposes. The reinforced concrete product is very high quality, ensuring a long, maintenance free and trouble free life service.
The production of every hull is subject to a rigorous inspection and control scheme.
The product is suitable for arctic as well as equatorial service.
Production has so far predominantly taken place in Scandinavia, UK and the Middle East.
Because a concrete hull typically has a large weight and large dimensions it is normally not practical for land based transportation. Consequently production is arranged to be in close vicinity and within tugboat delivery distance of the target destination.
Custom design
Floating homes are as individual as the people living in them. Consequently no two floating homes are the same, and the design and construction undertaken by Dirkmarine over the years has all been custom design.
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Custom design comprise floating communities as well as individual floating homes. Community creation is at the core of the Dirkmarine design strategy, and the Urban Rigger project in Copenhagen comprising 72 floating apartments is an example hereof. Still over time custom design for individual floating homes have been predominant.
Emphasis during design is on contemporary design, quality materials appliances and machineries, high-end visual appearance, low or no maintenance and durability.
Custom architectural design normally works such that the Dirkmarine design team work together with the architect chosen by the client. The role of Dirkmarine is then to assist, provide and coach from their vast experience and this way “marinate” the architectural design to make it viable at the chosen mooring for the floating home.
Custom structural design is normally 100% undertaken by Dirkmarine, and incorporates all structural elements and calculations, all specifications, descriptions, work procedures, etc for a successful production of the floating home.
Custom turn key construction is normally 100% undertaken by Dirkmarine, and comprise the individual fabrication of the hull HUBB®, and the superstructure, the assembly to a full turn key floating home, the delivery of the floating home at its mooring, and the final hook op to a fully functioning Floating Home.
Custom infrastructure design and construction is normally 100% undertaken by Dirkmarine, and comprise the layout, design and construction of all infrastructures surrounding the Floating Home such as drinking water, sewerage, electricity, communications, mooring fixation and tidal systems, fendering systems, floating dock and floating access means, piling at tidal areas, threshold support systems, etc.
Maintenance free
Maintenance free is the design specification for the hull, the Dirkmarine HUBB®. Even after spending 100 years within the corrosive environment of salt water, during frost and thaw, and carrying the burden of its superstructure throughout, no maintenance, no surface treatment paint or protection, no anodes and no dockings are required.
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After the first 100 years has gone by, the HUBB® will continue into the next century in great and undeteriorated form. During the approx 25 years and counting since the construction of Dirkmarine HUBB no 1 in the year of 2000, no damages has been reported on this or any subsequent hull constructed by Dirkmarine.
DHHS - Dirkmarine Hydro Heating System
The DHHS® is an energy recovery system developed by Dirkmarine feeding of the energy from the surrounding water, being on a lake, river or sea. Fluid or frozen, warm or cold, the DHHS® system will keep your desired indoor temperature. The system is integrated in the Dirkmarine HUBB®, and delivers cost efficient and maintenance free energy for the HVAC system which is heating, cooling and delivering hot water for the floating home.
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Dirkmarine Construction
Projects
Faith
A FLOATING HOME. INNOVATION BY DIRKMARINE
State of the art architectural design meets Dirkmarine innovation, structural design and build quality.
Glacier
FLOATING SAUNA AND SWIMMING POOL BY DIRKMARINE
State of the art architecture and Dirkmarine innovation combined.
Urban Rigger
72 FLOATING STUDENT ACCOMODATIONS BY DIRKMARINE
Architectural designed by BIG architects in Copenhagen 2015. Structural design and construction in Poland and China by Urban Rigger / Dirkmarine in 2016 – 2019. Assembled and delivery by Urban Rigger / Dirkmarine in 2016 and 2019.
Floating Stage
FLOATING MUSIC AND EVENT STAGE BY DIRKMARINE
Architectural design by Fisher+ partners and Christian Bjorn. Structural design, construction and delivery by Dirkmarine in Copenhagen.
Concrete Hull Hubb®
The Dirkmarine concrete hull HUBB® is designed to be a robust, secure, and reliable floating base, offering enduring, maintenance-free support for your life and safety, and any utilization or structure on top.
Maintenance free concrete hulls for floating amazing structures on water
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With 20 years experience in our niche, we can answer your questions and provide further information.