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BulDock Ltd. is a company that designs, manufactures and assembles high-quality HDPE floating dock systems.
innovating marine floating systems and anchoring technology.
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In the summer of 2016 our founders were commissioned by world renowned artists Christo and Jeanne-Claude to take on building “The Floating Piers,” on Lake Iseo, Italy. The work of installation art stayed for 16 days and was visited by more than 1.2 million people walking along the largest floating structure ever built. The Floating Piers was the largest art piece ever made and was recognised as the most important work of art of it’s time.
In June 2014 two lifelong friends - a commercial diver and a world renown artist - endeavored to create the largest floating structure ever built.
Google Earth view of the "Floating Piers"
The floating structure, which created vibrant walkways between the small down of Sulzano and the islands of Monte Isola and San Paolo, was entirely engineered and executed by BulDock’s team. The 3.2 km-long, 16 m-wide floating structure was opened to the public for 16 days before it was disassembled and recycled.
Christo assigned BulDock founder Rosen Jeliazkov the entire execution of the concept including the manufacture, assembly and installation of the floating structures.
Testing near Hamburg, Germany, where the first floats were assembled and tested in a private location.
It was decided that ‘The Floating Piers’ would be implemented with self-produced and specifically designed for the purpose cubes-shaped floats with a specific size and shape. It took four months for the 226,000 floats and connecting pins to be produced by four Italian factories. Unlike floats produced by other manufacturers at the time, the ones for the project were made from recycled material. Pure polyethylene /HDPE/ of the highest quality was used for ‘The Floating Piers’ project.
BulDock cubes stored in floating wear-houses on Lake Iseo
BulDock team assembles floats in sections
Relying on many years of professional experience and despite the complex structure of the bottom, Rosen Jeliazkov and his commercial diving team, Deep Dive Systems built more than 200 five-ton anchors to hold the pier in position with an accuracy of 10cm. The operations were demanding because they were performed at a significant depth reaching 92 meters at times and bottom slope varying up to 50 degrees.
The Dyneema ropes connecting the pontoons with anchors were specially manufactured in an Italian factory. They were installed at a tilt angle of 38 degrees and had a load-bearing capacity of 20 tones. The building of an anchorage system for the pontoons around the island of San Paolo was one of the most complex tasks of ‘The Floating Piers’ project. The underwater system of piles allowed movement of the pontoons only in the vertical direction. The final installation also included two types of anchoring systems – a vertical counterweight system as well as a diagonal one with elastic rods Hazelett. They held the pontoons upright and stable even on occasions of heavy waves without losing the floating effect.
“The Floating Piers” received extensive international media coverage and “The New York Times” named Christo’s installation at Lake Iseo among the most influential art pieces of 2016. The work became the late artists most complex work – yet was built in record time thanks to the expertise and dedication of the BulDock team.
BulDock is not just about creating docks; it’s about fostering connect with water environments, ensuring every moment spent on our platforms is safe, enjoyable, and in harmony with nature.
BulDock product are designed and developed by our team transferring years of experience in marine construction. Our products are American-made, manufactured to the highest international regulation standards.
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