PROJECT NAME: Hydrolift Professional P-42
NAME OF CLIENT: Hydrolift AS
PROJECT COMPLETED BY: Eker Design AS
Discipline: Industrial design
One hull. Nine boats
Hydrolift has developed a modular product platform for the professional patrol boat market, allowing the customer to choose from various standard options for easier maintenance and longer operating time. The project was motivated by a desire to reduce costs and increase efficiency in the production of patrol boats, which to date has been characterised by simple models and costly adjustments.
Panel remarks
This is clever thinking around a very difficult problem. Different patrol boats require different characteristics, but creating a common platform that is flexible enough to meet the various challenges and at the same time "strong" enough to standardise is not something that can be done in a jiffy. Eker Design has previously distinguished itself as being innovative and experimental, something for which it deserves all possible praise. It is therefore good to be able to present a DOGA award for a solution that is not only of the highest class when it comes to product design but also cuts through a Gordian knot and offers a real improvement in a market that is very pressured as regards price and time.
Project participants
Christoffer Haarbye – Hydrolift AS, product owner and technical manager
Patrick Schneider – Eker Design AS, CAD manager
Josef Tangen – Eker Design AS, senior designer
Reidar Gjølstad – Hydrolift AS, production manager
Scott Bushnell – Hydrolift AS, designer
Mikael Johansen – Hydrolift AS, designer
Bård Eriksen – Hydrolift AS, production engineer
Kjell-Reino Christiansen – Norwegian Society for Sea Rescue, head of new build department
Bård Eker – Hydrolift AS, project owner
Raymond Hissingby – Eker Design AS, designer