Defense
Submarine Ventilation Hatch Houses
A stopgap product redesigned through successive engineering changes into something purpose-fit.
Projects
These are jobs HPS Fabrications has actually delivered: Navy hatch houses and brows, one of the largest shiploading stations in the world, molten salt bath systems up to 100 feet long, and stadium handrail. Each page says what the problem was, what we engineered, and what was built.
Case studies
Selected projects
Defense
Navy Brows and Gangways
Ship-to-shore access for the Navy, including Ohio class work. We build a lot of these.
Defense
Submarine Escape Trunk Cofferdam
The temporary watertight structure that makes submarine escape trunk work possible.
Defense
HH-60 Aircraft Maintenance Stand
Maintenance platform stands for rotary-wing aircraft servicing.
Defense
Air Force Elevated Platform
A powered platform that raises and lowers for servicing large aircraft. Not a stand, a machine.
Bulk material handling
Shiploading Systems
Port and shiploading equipment, including one of the largest shiploading stations in the world, in Latvia.
Industrial
Molten Salt Bath Systems
Hundreds built over thirty years. The largest runs 100 feet long and 20 feet on each side.
Bulk material handling
Coal Gallery Conveyor
A mile of enclosed conveyor, rebuilt one segment a year while the plant keeps running.
Commercial
Stadium Handrail Fabrication
Handrail for Ford Field and Comerica Park, where every joint sits at eye level.
Commercial
Bollard Systems
Fixed, removable and sleeved bollards, fabricated and coated in house.
Government
Crane Track Chocks
A wedge that stops a tracked dock crane creeping. Built as a repeat production run.
Industrial
Welding and Fixture Tables
We build our own fixture tables. We will build yours.
Defense
T-38 Cradle System
Twelve-cradle sets that support the whole T-38 Talon fuselage during refurbishment, for the US Air Force.
What we have built
Every page below is a real job. Where the engineering was the hard part, it says so; where the scale was, it says that instead.
Defense
- Navy submarine ventilation hatch houses: a stopgap product redesigned into something purpose-fit.
- Navy brows and gangways: ship-to-shore access, including Ohio class work.
- Escape trunk cofferdam: the temporary watertight structure that makes submarine escape trunk work possible.
- T-38 cradle system: a cradle for the US Air Force, supporting and lifting the T-38 Talon.
- HH-60 aircraft maintenance stand: maintenance platform access for rotary-wing aircraft.
- Air Force elevated maintenance platform: a powered platform that raises and lowers to the work.
We have also delivered maintenance stands used across the Army’s entire helicopter fleet.
Bulk material handling and industrial
- Shiploading systems: including one of the largest shiploading stations in the world, in Latvia.
- Molten salt bath systems: hundreds built over thirty years, the largest 100 feet long and 20 feet on each side.
- Coal gallery conveyor: a mile of enclosed conveyor from a Lake Erie dock to a power plant, rebuilt a segment at a time.
Government and commercial
- Stadium handrail fabrication: Ford Field and Comerica Park.
- Crane track chocks: a production part that locks a tracked dock crane in place, shipped to shipyards on a regular schedule.
- Bollard systems: fixed, removable and sleeved bollards, fabricated and coated in house.
- Welding and fixture tables: we build our own, and we build them to order.
We also fabricated the upper lifting beam for the Hungry Horse Dam, and have built clarifier systems, conveyor systems, industrial furnace equipment and RDF feed equipment.
The pattern
Read a few of these and the same thing keeps happening: the customer arrived with a problem rather than a finished drawing package, and the engineering came before the fabrication.
That is design-build, and it is the reason these jobs came to HPS rather than to a build-to-print shop.
Your project could be the next one here.
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Questions buyers ask
Can I see work like mine before I commit?
That is what these pages are for. Each one says what the problem was, what was engineered and what was built. If nothing here matches your job, describe it and ask.
Are these projects representative or the highlights?
They are real, delivered jobs. If nothing here matches what you're building, describe it and we'll tell you directly whether we can help.
Can you do the engineering as well as the build?
Yes. Licensed professional engineers are on staff, in mechanical, electrical and structural disciplines, and several of these projects were engineered here before they were built here.
How do I start a project like these?
Send a print or describe the problem. Either is enough to get a real answer.