Entry #06: 25th October 2010

Today was the first day back after the weekend and everyone has just been trying to find their feet. We have our FIFA tournament this evening and so it was all go to get everything sorted so that the event ran smoothly.


Design and Construction
The wood arived on Friday so today it was a case of mocking up a detail of the apex of the frame to check that it worked before we could move forward. Lyle did this for us and the current solution seams to be acceptable. Mindaugus and Pat have been in the workshop this afternoon cutting some of these joints - it's a bit tense as we are now cutting on the real thing, no mistakes are allowed!!



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Aoife and a few others have also been up to the site today to check out the area and properly mark it out. We did do a site survey last week with all the equipment but we need to find the exact position to calculate the foundations and also look at how the existing topography can be manipulated around the design to help when entering and exiting the shelter. There has been a little bit of miss communication between the Botanics and the designers, as the guys at the site didn't realise that we were going to have to put in foundations. This is obviously quite intrusive - but very necessary to our designs stability.

Steph, Jess and Klara have also managed to source us some ‘free’ concrete from ‘Wickes’, so we have also saved a few pennies there!

Documentation
With only two weeks left the documentation team overseen by John, have finalised their objectives for the next couple of weeks.

We have been collecting a lot of information and so today we have been looking into different methods of presenting this. The main element will be a short piece of film, collating the stills and short pieces of video from the process so far. It is to be hoped that we will have time to develop this, animating it with construction details etc. Along with the blog we also hope to create an e book.


Fundraising
If our final sponsors come through then we only have a little way left to go in terms of funding so today we have been chasing up our loose ends, sorting out details and working out how much we need so as to get the structure built.

We only have two weeks left to go and one of our last planned fundraising events is the FIFA tournament this evening, our hopes are pinned on the football mad freshers and there arthritic thumbs. We are also hoping to ambush them with some of Kawthers handmade brownies at the door. Only time will tell if we have made a good profit from this event!