 Georgia
Aquarium's 6 million gallon Open Ocean Tank.
Services Provided
MEP Building Systems Design
Life Support Systems Design for Exhibits
MEP Design
for Exhibits
MEP Design for 4-D Theatre
A new $200 million aquarium that is funded by the Marcus Foundation
has recently opened in Atlanta Georgia. The new aquarium is a gift
from
Bernie Marcus, the co-founder of Home Depot. Mr. Marcus’s
two goals
for his dream project were to revitalize downtown Atlanta by bringing
as
many as 1.7 million visitors to the aquarium and also to create
an
environment that would break new ground and advance the state of
the
art in aquarium design.
Our Syska Hennessy Group team was selected for this important
project
and provided MEP/FP for the 550,000 square foot aquarium which
includes reception space for 1200 diners, function room capacity
for up
to 15,000 people, a 4-D Theatre and more than 8,000,000 gallons
of
exhibits.
The Syska Hennessy Group Aquatic Life Support Team designed
support systems for more than 100,000 aquatic animals from about
500
species collected throughout the world. Because the 6,000,000
gallon
Open Ocean Tank contains such a high ratio of fish to water,
Syska Engineers have designed three complete filtration systems
in order
to
have a high level of water quality and clarity. The systems have
the
ability to completely recycle the water every ninety minutes.
For the aquarium exhibits, our client needed a highly technical
aquarium
designer as well as an engineering firm that could bring quality
creative
input. We researched the client's business needs that entailed
going
beyond the traditional aquarium venue to create an entertaining,
interactive environment where entertainment of the visitor
would be the
first and foremost objective. The client required that creativity
be pushed
to the cutting edge. In order to meet the client's need for
creativity and
technical expertise, we combined our Cambridge technical staff
with the
expert entertainment staff in our California office and were
able to
present a quality team designed to exceed the client's expectations
for
exhibit design.
Syska's Cambridge team recently received Consulting Specifying
Engineer's ARC Award Honorable Mention for this project.
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