ALSI, LLC

04/09/2025

We’ve loved partnering with the amazing team at SEA Discovery Center to transform a leaky old exhibit into a vibrant new home for our local giant Pacific octopus. This aquarium is a treasure on the downtown Poulsbo waterfront, and we’re proud to help it shine even brighter!! You can help contribute online at https://sea.wwu.edu/ 🐙

Octopus exhibit demo is underway!! Making room for the new Giant Pacific Octopus Habitat at SEA Discovery Center! The team from ALSI, LLC is keeping the project on schedule to be completed by May. 😆🐙

Thank you to all the donors who have supported this project. If you would like to contribute to the new Octopus Habitat visit us in person Fridays or Saturday's 11am-4pm or online at https://sea.wwu.edu/.

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08/14/2024

Kind of beautiful to see the reflection of the original Seattle Aquarium in the new facility’s facade.

Seattle Aquarium opened in 1977. Now, 47 years later, the Ocean Pavilion will open just to the east and adjacent to the historical pier.

Not only will this new facility drive advancements in education and conservation, its life support systems are more sophisticated & more efficient.

Just think about the progress in our understanding of water quality and animal welfare in the last 50 years!

08/06/2024

What a throwback! Would love to see that presentation by Jeff Keaffaber and compare it to our installation projects today — what do you think has changed the most since 1995? 🤔

08/01/2024

Seattle Aquarium looking great! Opening August 29!!

07/25/2024

Although we’ve long since transitioned from being animal keepers, our passion for animal welfare never changed.

Now, we contribute behind the scenes, designing and constructing life support systems to ensure the well-being of BOTH the animals’ water quality but also the keepers’ sanity (drains that slope properly 👏🏻 valves within reach 👏🏻 automation 👏🏻).

Our roles have changed, but our mission is unchanged: supporting conservation initiatives and protecting wildlife.

Here we are in San Diego, installing the life support systems for the Safari Park’s new Elephant Valley project — it’s the biggest expansion in park history!

Proud to do what we do 💪🏻🚧🐘

07/12/2024

At ALSI, we aren’t just an installation company. In fact, our careers didn’t begin in LSS at all.

We began in animal care.

Feeding the sand tiger sharks, developing enrichment programs for the octopuses, and yes, even scrubbing algae 🥲

As we grew and evolved as a construction company, our foundation of animal welfare and the integrity of end-user functionality never faltered.

We’ve been aquarists as construction happened to us. Now we get to be the bridge between the construction and the client, allowing construction to happen with you.

The future is bright ✨

07/09/2024

Major progress happening out here in Sarasota, as the Mote SEA project continues to go up!

ALSI is overseeing the installation of all major life support systems on this impressive building. Features of the LSS include sophisticated plumbing networks, habitat-specific water quality monitoring, redundant systems for continuous operation in the case of a primary system failure, automated monitoring, and environmental controls for a fully custom and tailored design specific to Mote SEA. Pretty cool, huh?

🐠 The new Mote Science Education Aquarium, with a budget of $132 million, is set to open in early 2025.

🐠 The aquarium will cover 110,000 square feet and feature over 1 million gallons of water in its exhibits.

🐠 The ‘Gulf of Mexico Exhibit’ will be a massive, three-story, 400,000-gallon tank that will house a diverse array of marine life.

🐠 The project includes STEM Teaching Labs: Three labs dedicated to ocean technology, marine ecology, and biomedical/immunology, designed to provide hands-on learning experiences for K-12 students.

🐠 The exterior design is going to have a sleek, ship-like appearance, incorporating over 4,000 metal panels.

As we continue our work on this project, we can’t help but get excited for everyone to enter the doors at Mote SEA in 2025!

https://moteoceansforall.com

06/27/2024

What sets ALSI apart?

It's a question we answer on every construction proposal we submit.

Unfortunately, it's hard to convey exactly how our team is different. It manifests in small moments:

- a team member teaching the new guy with patience and understanding
- communicating needs to one another
- asking for help, offering help, and staying collaborative
- being approachable, on time, and consistent
- staying a "team" outside of the work environment
- keeping it positive, or letting management take over if you need a moment

We hire for skill, sure, but nearly (if not more) important is attitude and self-awareness. How we work together as a group influences the construction process and, ultimately, the final product. Each team member needs to be flexible, open, and trusting enough to work with any other, at any given time.

On a form, the words "communication," "collaboration," and "the ability to work together" just don't feel like enough sometimes.

Grateful for our team today, and every day.

06/25/2024

Installing aquatic life support systems on a major build is a long collaboration with other trades as the project progresses.

We need to communicate with nearly every one, electricians, HVAC, plumbing, concrete, drywall, etc etc etc, as pipes run throughout the walls, beneath the ground, and overhead.

That conversation also includes the importance of timing, to ensure plumbing is correctly and functionally located.

Here is a great example of our teamwork at Mote Science and Education Aquarium (SEA) with exhibit fabrication company, Dixon Studios LLC.

Initially, we install excess piping and place a cap on the end for pressure testing. Once pressure tests check out, Dixon Studios will place the frames for their rock work. This helps us locate where inlets will be.

So now we can cut the caps off and install the proper coupling with the frp in the location that matches the face of the rockwork, just like the ones in the front of the picture.

If not for this process, inlets could get buried, pressure tests could fail after the build and damage the entire habitat, water flow could be all wrong and cause debris build up. Lots of ways to fail.

That is why collaboration is key!

06/19/2024

Check out the size of this plate heat exchanger from Delta Hydronics! 😍

It might just be the largest we’ve ever installed.

Going in at the new Mote SEA (Science Education Aquarium).

Maverick for size reference (thanks Mav!)

Ladies, he is single 😏

06/14/2024

Have you seen the new Sobela Aquarium yet?

ALSI owner Nick Block was the lead project manager, overseeing all employees for the Life Support Systems installation on this monumental build for the Kansas City Zoo.

🐠 It features 650,000 gallons of water distributed across six zones and 34 habitats, housing nearly 8,000 animals representing more than 200 species.

🐠 The total cost of the project was $77 million, funded by both the Zoological District and private donations.

🐠 The facility was designed by the architectural firms El Dorado and EHDD, and constructed by JE Dunn Construction.

🐠 The aquarium features over FIVE MILES of piping in its advanced water filtration system.

06/14/2024