Design & Engineering is a privately-owned marine engineering company with offices in Turku and Helsinki . The current CEO is Jyrki Lehtonen ’ s son Kristian .
ILS has decades of experience of carrying out commissions for ship owners , shipyards and other design companies around the world , including high profile design and consulting projects for Finnish and international customers .
” When designing ice-breakers , one should first of all focus on what the ship is eventually expected to accomplish , and in what kinds of operating environments ,” Jyrki Lehtonen emphasises .
TESTING THE PROTOTYPES
At the present time , ILS designers are taking part in various projects that will eventually result in the building of different kinds of ships .
” They include two passenger ships , one car and passenger ferry , and one sizeable cargo ship ,” notes Lehtonen .
Quite often , designers utilise floating scale models of prototypes to help in their design work .
” This usually happens in the final phases of design when most things are starting to take shape .”
” Model tests will show how the ship actually works on the waves – and whether or not she works as she ought to , in accordance with the design specifications . Such tests are particularly important for the design of ice-breakers .”
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