BV has significant expertise and deployable capacity in Australia and overseas to support the RAN, Capability Acquisition & Sustainment Group (CASG) and the naval shipyards. As a global group with 78,000 employees BV goes way beyond traditional marine classification – with leading expertise in complex asset management, building and infrastructure, consumer products, agri-food, safety certification, and supply chain assurance activities.

An example is the dedicated Bureau Veritas Aeronautics and Space division able to provide overarching regulatory and certification oversight, insight and experience in support of the development of naval ship and aviation requirements into the future.

Pierre de Chateau Thierry: ‘We are far more than a classification society but this project will also draw on our core marine technology capabilities in hull systems, propulsion, electrical systems, ship survivability, stability and trimming, submarine systems, and control systems. We combine the best of marine and other industries to provide the sophisticated capabilities required.’

To support its activities focused on the sovereign shipbuilding projects Bureau Veritas is opening a new Liaison and Support office, with dedicated staff, located in Adelaide’s new Defence & Space Innovation Precinct. If we are going to be a key player in the ecosystem we need to be in that ecosystem’, concludes Pierre de Chateau Thierry.