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Our
aquarium installations adorn
many commercial business establishments such as:
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Restaurants
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Bars |
Private Homes
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Department stores
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Shopping Malls
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Banks |
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TV studios
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Reception Areas
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Hotels
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Waiting Areas and
Rooms |
Shops |
Living Rooms
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Cafeterias |
Hospitals |
Dining Rooms |
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High Rise Building Lobbies |
Child Care Center |
Fancy Boutiques |
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Law Offices |
Corp Board Rooms |
Theater Lobbies |
 Also as technical
professionals, we offer a no-nonsense standard Project Management planning
approach (we use Microsoft Project software) or your company’s project planning
process. All references are documented.
The picture on the right is a
high rise building lobby installation. We also display a high end restaurant
installation on our Custom Aquariums page to give you an idea. Click on
Custom Aquariums to
see a dramatic Predatory Tank in a high end restaurant environment.
The process begins with
defining your requirements. In other words, "What exactly do you want."
We
appreciate that sometimes it’s hard to explain exactly what you want, especially
if you don’t already have one. So we’ll help you decide the Aquatic System
Requirements that makes the most sense for you or your customer's business goals. Call us today at
972-423-0414. Ask for Larry. For more information click on
Custom Aquariums.
We’re sensitive and take
every measure to make sure our customers feel confident each step of the
construction. Generally our Project Plan
follows these steps:
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Gather
Measurable Requirements –
What kind of
aquarium design do you want– What Features? & How reliable and
Fault Tolerant do you want your tank to be? Most important,
what are your abstract expectations that can’t be measured?
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Prepare and
Present Project Proposal –
We’ll graphically explain our project plan and how
much it will cost
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Get Contract
Approvals –
get
everybody’s okay
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Prepare
Engineering Drawings and Bill of Materials –
we’ll graphically explain all the structural
specifications and list all the major components
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Project
Review & Approval to Proceed –
Here’s the
plan and technical specifications - Everything is ready to go -
All we need is your “Go Ahead”
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Habitat
Construction –
Build the Fish Tank, filtration and water
exchange subsystems, hook it all up and fill it with water
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Aquarium
Stocking and Conditioning –
Place and acclimate the aquarium live stock in the
fish tank
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Final Test
and Acceptance –
Prove that it
all works and the customer will accept it
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Aquatic
Design’s Service Agreement –
We’ll clean and service your tank periodically and
keep your aquatic creatures healthy and colorful– all you have
to do is feed them daily
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We design systems
that will accomplish specific goals.
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The first and most obvious goal is to provide an
adequate simulated habitat for your fish, plants and invertebrates.
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Less obvious, but equally important design goals
include that the system be reliable, fault tolerant, and cost effective.
A reliable system is
when the system components do not fail to meet specification on a
consistent basis
(Component specifications are part of our technical
drawings and Bills of Material)
Fault tolerance allows
a system to continue to operate if a failure occurs, or to at least
prevent catastrophic failure if a system fault occurs. We plan fault
tolerance for the failure of components within the system, and for
external effects, such as power failures, happening outside the system.
While fault tolerance can increase the system cost, it can prevent the
occurrence or minimize the effects of failures that could wipe out the
tank population.
We employ cost effective means to
overcome the temptation in design to oversize everything. Most
of our
competitors use common "rules of thumb" that ends up over sizing
components and adding excess costs. That is why we make an accurate
calculation of your requirements and meet those requirements, rather
than to heavily oversize those requirements in order to be "Safe."
(Note: In many
instances where this is done, the additional expense of meeting these
overstated requirements comes at the cost of implementing fault
tolerance or other important design goals. In other instances, by using
the most effective configuration of components we can reduce the system
requirements themselves and have a more efficient aquatic system.)
Our experience is
that failure to plan for a reliable, fault tolerant, cost effective system will
likely result in a system that is failure and disease prone, subject to
catastrophic failures during power outages or other events, and which costs more
than it needs to.
We document
everything, each step of the way.
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Aquariums
1629 North Central
Plano, TX 75075
(972) 423-0414
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Flix - September 2004
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