AK SeaLife Center Duck Habitat

In 2010 Bay Welding won a competitive bid to construct a custom Eider Duck habitat for the Alaska Sea Life Center in Seward, Alaska.

The habitat is a combination of aluminum framework, fiberglass and composite mesh grating, reinforced fiberglass pools, and mesh netting. The Alaska Sea Life Center had a stringent set of guidelines for the design, construction, and installation in order to ensure the safe adaptation of the ducks into their new habitat. Bay Welding’s design plan called for in-house construction of five identical habitats measuring 10’W X 11’L X 11’H, as well as multiple gangways and stairways.

Upon completion of the in-house portion of the construction, Bay Welding delivered and installed individual units at the construction sight in Seward, Alaska to create a single interconnected habitat with multiple access points and an integrated drain system. Approaching this project with this modular design concept allowed the majority of the labor to be completed in Bay Welding’s facility in Homer, Alaska, thus allowing a project of this complexity to be completed with significantly lower cost to the Sea Life Center. Field time was kept to a minimum.

Bay Welding has enjoyed having the opportunity to propose cost-effective, creative construction and design solutions to agencies like the Alaska Sea Life Center.