Bellingham Marine is pleased to announce that Bahia Mar Yachting Center, located in Fort Lauderdale, Florida and home of the Fort Lauderdale International Boat Show has been awarded the 2010 PIANC Marina Excellence Design Jack Nichol Award.
The selection committee determined the Bahia Mar Yachting Center best represents the award’s evaluation criteria, which focuses on function, aesthetics, and environmental stewardship. “It’s an honor for Bellingham Marine and everyone that worked on the project to have received this esteemed award,” said Everett Babbitt, President of Bellingham Marine.
The purpose of the Jack Nichol Award is to recognize excellence in the design of modern recreational boating facilities around the world.
“A tremendous amount of effort went into designing the Bahia Mar marina to function successfully as a dual purpose facility,” said Steve Ryder, Manager of Project Development for Bellingham Marine. “From a design standpoint, the marina had to operate as a world class yacht center eleven months out of the year and as the home of the Fort Lauderdale International Boat Show during October of each year.”
The marina’s principle features include large full-service slips with corresponding clear water widths, Unifloat® concrete floating docks with extra wide walkways and high dock freeboard, a functional slip layout that meets the needs of the marina as well as the boat show, and a site electrical transformer and distribution system that provides ample power to account for the high utility demands imposed by the boats on a daily basis as well as the massive utility demands of the boat show. In addition, the marina includes a number of innovative design features that enables the facility to make an easy transition from marina to boat show venue.
Since its inception in 2003, the Jack Nichol Award has existed as the trademark for outstanding marina design and is considered by many to be the most prestigious award in the world in this area. The award will be presented to Bellingham Marine and Bahia Mar at the Annual General Assembly of PIANC in May 2010.
As the world’s leading marina design-build construction company, Bellingham Marine produces Unifloat® concrete floating dock systems, Unideck® metal frame floating dock systems and Unistack® dry stack systems for marinas worldwide.
Contact Bellingham Marine, P.O. Box 8, Bellingham, WA 98227; www.bellingham-marine.com.
Unifloat, Unideck and Unistack are registered trademarks of Bellingham Marine.
After releasing its website in Spanish, Italian and French two years ago, Bellingham Marine has now introduced a Chinese language version of their site as part of the Company’s goal to reach out to international markets in their native written language.
The addition of Chinese to Bellingham Marine’s website will extend access to up-to-date product and technical information as well as recent news.
“We are very excited to be able to communicate with our Chinese reading customers in their native written language,” said John Spragg, General Manager for Bellingham Marine Australasia. “The new Chinese website is an important step toward providing our customers the highest levels of service and convenience.”
According to an on-line source, China has surpassed the United States to become the world’s largest internet using population and about one-fifth of the world’s population speaks Chinese.
“Bellingham Marine’s decision to expand the company’s website to include Chinese is a reflection of China’s on-line presence and emerging interest in the boating sector,” said Everett Babbitt, President of Bellingham Marine.
As the world’s leading marina design-build construction company, Bellingham Marine produces Unifloat concrete floating dock systems, Unideck metal frame floating dock systems and Unistack dry stack systems for marinas worldwide.
Contact Bellingham Marine, P.O. Box 8, Bellingham, WA 98227; www.bellingham-marine.com.
Unifloat, Unideck and Unistack are registered trademarks of Bellingham Marine.
Westport Marina is remarkable in a number of ways. For example, the recently re-opened marina is not in the business of renting slips, and its owner is a boat manufacturer thousands of miles away. But what makes Westport truly unique is outrageously excellent customer service…and the kind of customer it serves.
If you’re familiar with air travel by private jet, you already know something about Westport. As your G5 taxies in and chocks up at the “fixed-base operator,” you’re not thinking about slogging through baggage claim and taking the shuttle out to the rental car lot. Nuh-uh. You’re going down the boarding stairs and right into the limo. If your pilot radioed ahead for something, it’s there. If you ask for it, it will be done.
G5-level service is the model for Westport. The special-purpose marina is a commissioning and support facility for the Westport line of American-made super yachts. But do not think that Westport management regards the facility as an afterthought to building boats. The marina is central to the company’s core business. “We think our job is 10% building the product and 90% providing services and customer support,” said Phil Purcell, Vice President of Shipyards. “Our focus is on delivering a superior customer experience.”
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MAGAZINE: Marina World
ISSUE: January/February 2010
Westport Marina is remarkable in a number of ways. For example, the recently re-opened marina is not in the business of renting slips and its owner is a boat manufacturer thousands of miles away. But what makes Westport truly unique is outrageously excellent customer service… and the kind of customer it serves.
Marina World January/February 2010
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It is with great pride that we announce that three additional Bellingham Marine plants have achieved ISO 9001:2008 certification. The three newly certified plants include Bellingham’s NE plant in York, Pennsylvania; Bellingham’s SE plant in Jacksonville, FL; and Bellingham’s Drystack operations in Callahan, FL.
“It’s been a tremendous team effort and the ISO representative indicated that he was impressed by the enthusiasm for and acceptance of the program by all the employees at each division,” said Phil Greenman, Executive Vice President of Bellingham Marine. “We now have six ISO certified plants and one PCI certified plant. This is a great accomplishment and is yet another example of our commitment to ensuring a quality product to our customers every time.”
The ISO certification is not only a way for developers and marina owners to identify sources of added value but provides third party verification. Like ISO, the PCI accreditation process requires an in-depth quality assurance plan and thorough inspections of the plant and its operations.
“We’ll continue to strive for improvement by getting all plants certified,” said Greenman. “Certifying more than a single plant reassures our customers that no matter where in the world their project is the same quality and level of service will be delivered.” All BMI’s U.S plants are quality accredited as well as its plants in Australia and New Zealand.
The ISO 9001:2008 is an international standard for quality management, quality assurance, and continuous improvement. This standard refers to how an organization’s processes are designed and managed to transform inputs or services designed to meet the customer’s objectives.
Bellingham Marine’s NE division serves the eastern regions of the United States and the SE division covers the southeast region including the Gulf States, as wells as the Caribbean and South America. All the company’s drystack work done worldwide with the exception of Australasia, which is covered by Bellingham Marine Australia, is handled out of BMI’s Callahan plant.
As the world’s leading marina design/build construction company, Bellingham Marine produces Unifloat saltwater systems, Unideck freshwater systems and Unistack dry storage systems for marinas worldwide.
Bellingham Marine, P.O. Box 8, Bellingham, WA 98227; ph. 360-676-2800, fax. 360-734-2417, email. bmi@bellingham-marine.com
Unifloat, Unideck and Unistack are registered trademarks of Bellingham Marine.