Facilities at the main plant include a 750-foot
drydock, three shipways, three wharves, an outfitting pier, four level-luffing cranes, and
covered facilities for pre-outfit and assembly. Also located within the facilities
in Maine are engineering, design, ship support, and administrative offices.
The
shipyard has two principal structural assembly buildings. The larger building has 15,600
square meters of interior area and houses the Panel Line and 15 Unit Assembly
workstations. The smaller building contains 3,780 square meters and 7 workstations. The
Pre-Outfit Building (8,450 square meters) has 16 workstations and is used for installation
of distributive systems and operating machinery after the structural Units are
grit-blasted and painted.
The shipyard has two separate facility
configurations that support the ship assembly (unit erection) and launching process. Both
configurations consist of three shipways that can be used for either military or
commercial ship construction. Three new level-land shipways are the centerpiece of the
Land-Level Transfer Facility (LLTF); all three shipways can accommodate ships of 243
meters in length and a maximum beam of 32 meters. The LLTF building positions are serviced
by two, track-mounted, 300-ton level-luffing crane and one, track-mounted, 100-ton
level-luffing crane. Operating on an inter-connected rail system grid, all three cranes
can be positioned to service any of the three shipways. 
When ready for launching, ships
are translated onto a 28,000-ton lift-capacity floating dry dock, using a purpose-built
TTS electro-hydraulic transfer system. Outfit Piers #3 and #4, which are adjacent to the
LLTF, are serviced track-mounted live-boom cranes; one 90-ton and one 60-ton.
In addition to the
Land-Level Transfer Facility , the shipyard has three inclined ways serviced by a 220-metric ton, track-mounted,
level-luffing crane.
BIW also operates two 
manufacturing operations work sites that are not
contiguous to the main shipyard property. One is a structural steel fabrication facility
(the Hardings Plant) and the other consists of a climate controlled Consolidated Warehouse
facility and an automated pipe and sheet metal facility which include computer-aided
manufacturing capability for steel, pipe and ventilation (the East Brunswick Manufacturing
Facility).
