Pre-construction site of The Nature Conservancy’s Coral Innovation Hub (CIH) at Estate Little Princesse, St. Croix, US Virgin Islands.

Site cleared and graded for construction.

River helps clear debris for site preparation.

Footers poured for container and concrete slab for workshop.

Portable drilling rig setup to drill seawater supply well.

Trenching for electrical and plumbing runs from seawater well to the facility.

Electrical conduit and plumbing installed from seawater well to the facility.

Pulling wiring from the seawater pump to the facility’s main panel and backup generator.

Final connections to seawater well pump.

20’ high cube shipping container to house recirculation reservoirs, filtration equipment, and controls.

Crane setup to offload wet lab, dry lab, and office containers fabricated in Florida and shipped to St. Croix.

Offloading and placement of prefabricated containers to footings.

Offloading filtration container to footings.

Staging plumbing and equipment for facility construction inside the empty wet lab container.

Installing service lighting, mini-split AC, and recirculation reservoirs inside filtration container.

Installing RO/DI evaporation top-off system.

Fabricating mounting panels for Ozonizers and APEX controllers. panels.

Ozonizer and APEX control panels mounted inside filtration container.

Routing recirculation and filtration equipment plumging runs through container wall.

Plumbing primary pumps, reservoir drains, actuated valves, chiller recirculation loop and foam fractionators.

Plumbing stem outs for all internal filtration components.

Finalizing all electrical supply, Ozonizers, and APEX controller connections.

Installing titanium split unit chiller heat exchangers.

Installing electrical supply, disconnects, and concrete pads for chiller condensing units.

Poured concrete pedestals for raceway supports.

Raceways positioned on pedestals, drilled for bulkheads, fabrication/installation of supply manifolds, and primary drain and supply runs routed to filtration container.

Final connection of raceway reciruclation drains and seawater supply runs to filtration container.

River takes charge of backfilling excavated utility trenches.

Plumbing, electrical, and filtration completed and ready for shadecloth installation.

Installing overhead shadecloth system.

Overhead shadecloth system installed.

Facility is ready for final commissioning.

Initial seawater fill.

Raceways filled and recirculating with filtration container.

Filtration container fully operational.

Retractable rain cover systems designed and installed.

Wet lab container prepared for build out.

Build out of wet lab container begins.

Outdoor nursery fully operational.

Commissioned 2021