Water Emergency Transportation Authority (WETA), Central Bay Operations & Maintenance Facility Design, Alameda, California

This new Operations & Maintenance Facility is the home base for the SF Bay Ferry fleet in the central bay. The facility will be used to maintain vessels operating on the Alameda, Oakland, Richmond, and South San Francisco ferry routes, and to coordinate emergency transportation services during a regional disaster, disruption in transportation, or both.

Liftech is the design prime for this $52 million essential facility. On the land, the facility includes an operations and maintenance building, fuel yard, working yard, park improvements, and seawall. On the water, the facility includes a pile supported pier, gangway, concrete service float with maintenance shed and crane, and system of pile-moored concrete floats with an array of fendering and mooring systems for berthing up to 12 ferry vessels.

References:
Power Engineering Construction Company
Alameda, California, USA

C. Overaa & Co.
Richmond, California, USA