The Port of San Francisco has directed global engineering firm GHD to draft a demolition plan for two prominent ship repair structures – Eureka Drydock and Drydock Number Two – at Piers 68-70. GHD, an Australia-headquartered multinational specializing in environmental and engineering solutions, will oversee the decommissioning strategy for the waterfront site.
Eureka Drydock is 570 feet. Drydock Number Two, also known as DD2, is 900 feet, larger than any of the Port’s piers and bigger than the Ferry Building. Pollock-Stockton Shipbuilding erected Eureka in 1945. Bethlehem Steel Corporation built DD2 in 1970. The long-inactive drydocks were determined to be unrepairable after suffering catastrophic structural damage during severe storms last November.
The Port originally shuttered the facilities in 2017. Severe weather worsened fractures and opened new tears in the metal hulls, which triggered uncontrolled flooding inside Drydock No. 2, causing the colossal steel structure to take on water and dangerously list to one side…