Pre-construction site of Arizona State University’s Ridge to Reef Restoration Center (3RC) at the Hawaii Ocean Science & Technology Park, Kailua-Kona, Hawaii.

CEE designs and provides architectural blueprints of the facility.

At the client’s request, CEE produced a set of architectural renderings prior to construction.

Two 40’ high-cube shipping containers are fabricated into Life Suport Systems for the facility.

Door and structural supports for equipment and components are welded into the containers.

Industrial-grade coatings are applied to the interiors of the containers.

Hot rolled Polyaspartic floor coating.

Container modifications for electrical and equipment installations begin.

Filtration equipment pre-assembly and intial layout.

Staging of plumbing valves, fittings, bulkheads, and components for pre-fabrication.

Primary pumps, controls, and filtration components are pre-fabricated onto FRP skids.

Equiment skids are stored for final installation until container modifications are complete.

Raceway manifolds and other plumbing components are pre-fabricated at CEE to accelerate installation and commissioning on site.

Raceway manifolds assembled, completed, and ready for shipment inside Life Support System containers.

Installation and preliminary testing of the SCADA.

Wiring the SCADA to programmable logic controllers on the equipment skids.

Finalize plumbing, wiring, and installation of the Heat Exchanger skids.

Field testing Heat Exchanger performance and all components of Life Support Systems in a closed recirculation loop.

CEE perfoms extensive testing of all systems components before Life Support System containers are prepared for shipment.

Equipment and materials payload is packed and secured for survey and inspection by a licenced Marine Surveyor prior to container loading and transport to the Port.

Loading for transport to the Shipping Port.

Life Support Systems containers arrive and are placed on site. Raceways arrive via separate freight and prepared for installation.

Materials and premanufactured components are unpacked and organized onto a staging area.

Raceway leg supports are cut and installed.

Raceways are prepared drilling and installation of bulkheads and circulation manifolds.

Installation of raceway manifolds, circulation pumps, drains, and secondary shade/rain covers.

Site is surveyed, marked, and ready for aligning raceways into position for plumbing and wiring service outlets.

Trenches excavated for underground piping runs.

Raceway supply and drain plumbing installed and connected to Life Support System container and site discharge well.

Arrival of second Life Support System container.

Drains and closed-loop recirculation pumps are plumbed.

Main power and comms connected to SCADA and all systems components.

Isolated testing of individual system components.

System is filled with seawater as final probes and sensors are installed.

SCADA components individually tested and validated.

SCADA User-Interface.

SCADA commissioned into full operation. CEE performs two weeks of intensive programming and testing of systems components, alarms, data collection, logic control, automation and redundancy to verify fail-safe operation under any scenario.

Arizona State University’s Ridge to Reef Restoration Center.

Commissioned 2024