Standard Specifications for Design Concepts of MegaFloats for Long Term Habitation

Abstract

Various ideas on the design concepts of habitable megafloats (HMF) for long term human habitation have emerged. Ideas come not only from enthusiastic naval architects but also town planners and building architects of land-based infrastructures. The differences between the designs of current very large floating structures (VLFS) for oil and gas exploration and HMF are too huge and hence the transformation apparently depart from many common fundamentals adopted for the designs of the earlier. This posed great problem to practical designers and the bridge between the two must be established such that the transformation is theoretically and making them more meaningful for academic references. The paper highlights the missing links between the current concept designs of HMF and VLFS and suggested the fundamental for the missing links. Standard specifications have been established that may serve as better academic references.