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OpenEng · Port & Marine Design Review

A second set of eyes on your engineering design.

Upload a port, coastal or marine engineering design and get a clause-referenced, independently verified review against the code you choose — decision-support built for chartered engineers.

Clause-referenced to BS 6349 Every finding verified twice Severity & confidence rated Private to your account
OpenEngReview is in beta. It's built to support and supplement your existing engineering and technical review process — not to replace it. Every finding is advisory, and review responsibility stays with your engineers.
How it works

From upload to defensible findings.

The review runs the way a good checker works: design basis first, protected checks never skipped, every comment tied to the clause it rests on.

1

Upload your deliverable

PDF, Word, Excel or CSV — a calc package, design report or spreadsheet. Add reference documents (Basis of Design, drawings, specs) to sharpen the review, pick the governing code and accept the terms.

2

A governed review, verified twice

A chartered-engineer methodology reviews the design basis, protected checks and calculations — then an independent second pass confirms every finding and recomputes the critical numbers.

3

Work the findings on your dashboard

Sign in to your private dashboard: severity-rated findings, completeness scorecard, quality score and risk rating. Challenge anything — it’s re-examined against the code.

Choose your depth

Three levels of scrutiny. You pick.

Match the review to the deliverable — a quick screen before issue, a rigorous check, or a full line-by-line audit.

Standard · 1 credit

A general review: completeness, code & edition compliance, consistency with your project information, high-level calculation sanity checks, presentation and grammar.

In-depth · 2 credits

Everything in Standard, verified twice: cross-checking of values carried between calculations, targeted recomputes of the safety-critical numbers, and reference-document cross-checks. Our recommended level.

Exhaustive · 5 credits

A full audit on our most capable model: every calculation line and spreadsheet cell checked, every formula chain traced input-to-result, all critical numbers recomputed.

What you get

Findings you could hand to a checker.

An excerpt in the exact format your review arrives in — clause, location, severity, recommendation.

Berth 4 quay wall — review excerpt
Clause-referenced · severity-rated · independently verified
Verified by a second, independent pass
Weighted score across completeness, presentation, compliance & calculation accuracy
Critical
Design working life and consequence class not stated in the basis
BS 6349-1-1:2013, Clause 17 · Basis of design, p.2
State the consequence class and design working life — partial factors and durability requirements flow from them.
Major
Berthing energy mixes laden displacement with ballast-draught Cm
BS 6349-1-2:2016+A1:2017, Clause 28 · Sheet ‘Fenders’, D12
Recompute Eₑ with a consistent vessel condition, then carry the revised energy into fender selection to BS 6349-4:2014.
Minor
50 mm cover adopted for XS3 exposure without justification
BS 6349-1-4:2013 with BS EN 1992-1-1 · Section 6.2
Verify cover and crack-width limits against exposure class XS3 for the splash zone.
Capabilities

What it does

Calcs, reports & spreadsheets

PDF, Word, Excel or CSV — spreadsheet reviews trace the formulas, not just the values.

Your chosen code governs

BS 6349 by default, or Eurocode 7, EC2/3, API — with the full tiered reference hierarchy behind it.

Design basis first

Design life, consequence class, metocean, vessels and ground model are checked before anything downstream.

Clause-referenced findings

Traceable, severity-rated and confidence-rated — defensible in front of a checker.

Independently verified

Every review is checked twice: a second, independent pass confirms each finding and recomputes the critical numbers.

You stay in control

Advisory decision-support — your judgement leads. Challenge any finding and it is re-examined against the code.

Put a second set of eyes on your next design.

Your first 10 reviews are free during beta.

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Enterprise

Want this inside your firm?

We build bespoke, white-label review tools for consultancies, port operators and developers — your branding, trained on your standards, calculations and review history. A mirrored design team that streamlines your review process without ever replacing it.

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Coming soon

More disciplines on the way.

Review tools for Oil & Gas and Port & Civil Infrastructure are in development — plus first-pass port & coastal design tools to sit alongside review.

See what's coming →
Questions

Frequently asked

Is this a certification or a pass/fail check?

No. Every finding is advisory decision-support for a chartered engineer — phrased as “appears inconsistent with…”, “verify…”. Your judgement leads; the review gives you a rigorous, clause-referenced starting point.

How are findings referenced?

Each finding cites the governing-code clause it rests on (e.g. BS 6349-1-2:2016+A1:2017, Clause 28), the location in your document, a severity, a confidence rating, and an actionable recommendation. Nothing is ever attributed to a clause that can’t support it.

What does “independently verified” mean?

After the review is drafted, a second, independent pass re-examines every finding against your document and the code, recomputes the most safety-critical numbers, and withdraws anything that can’t be defended. You see the verification summary with your review.

Is my design kept private?

Yes. Your document is stored privately against your account and used only to produce your review. It is never used to improve the tool unless you explicitly opt in at upload.

Which structures and codes are covered?

Quay walls, jetties, dolphins, piled decks, breakwaters and coastal protection, marine piling, mooring & fendering, dredging and reclamation, dry docks, locks and navigation channels — reviewed under BS 6349 (default), Eurocode 7, EC2/3, API, or a code you nominate.

Can I attach reference documents?

Yes — up to 5 supporting documents (Basis of Design, drawings, project specifications) alongside your design. The review cross-checks your deliverable against them: inputs vs the stated design basis, spec requirements where they exceed code minima, and drawing consistency. The first 10 MB is included free; each additional 20 MB uses one extra review credit (50 MB max).

How big a document can I upload?

Up to 50 MB per design. A PDF of up to 100 pages is read in full — drawings, figures and scanned pages included. A longer PDF is still reviewed, but from its text only, and the review says so under its limitations. For a long, multi-volume report, uploading the relevant volume or section on its own gives a sharper review.

What does it cost?

Reviews use credits by depth: Standard is 1 credit, In-depth is 2, and an Exhaustive line-by-line audit is 5 (plus 1 per extra 20 MB of reference documents beyond the included 10 MB). You start with 10 free credits during beta and can earn more by giving feedback on findings — see pricing.