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Floating docks: High-tech designs friendly to the environment.

Currently, science and technology come together to offer the world marine constructions more friendly to the environment. The floating docks are not the exception, these floating platforms arrive to provide unique designs of long duration that take care of the environment in the construction of ports and marinas with the highest technology and quality.

Floating docks have floating units submerged below the deck, allowing the structure to rise and fall with the fluctuations of the height of the water level, which makes them safer for boats, since the simultaneous changes of these together With the structure, they prevent potential damage from collisions.

The quantifiable effects on aquatic ecosystems caused by the installation of floating docks are measured through the evaluation of physical, chemical and biological parameters such as the rate of production of algae, grain size, total organic carbon and distribution of macro-fauna, in addition to other more complex variables that include the interaction between structural elements of the spring and the physical forces in the environment such as the speed and direction of the flow of the water stream.

Studies confirm that floating docks function as artificial habitats for many aquatic species such as algae, sponges, crustaceans and fish, because of the favorable and continuous conditions that allow the establishment of ecosystems in aquatic environments.

Unlike fixed docks, floating docks adjust to water level variations and do not cause sediment or variations in water currents that alter the ecosystem that abuts the structure. These floating platforms are designed to adapt to different environments and play an important role in the proliferation of life in the marine ecosystem, which is why they become the best option for the construction of marinas and ports.