A slightly late up-date

Today is day three of the project, which means the blog is well overdue an update!
So, Wednesday, we meet early once again and the first thing we did was a little re-shuffle of the group. Jennifer, project leader appointed leaders for the individual teams and a communications secretary (Me!). This meant that while she was running around like a headless chicken between the different teams working out exactly what was going on, she could leave the leaders to sort out the teams and report back to her. My job is to run around after her recording everything from minutes to meetings to reports to the blog.

Our 'benevolent dictator' talking structures

Probably one of the biggest achievements of the day was sourcing the tubes. We had our tube team on the phones all day and, despite several wrong answers, we managed to source all of the tubes we needed. We were also left with a decision to make: what size tubes to have. The original design was 150 mm but we couldn't get hold of any so we had to chose between 100 mm and 200 mm. In the end, we opted for 100 mm tubes which means we have to go and pick up 218 cardboard tubes. Fun times!
It was then left to the tube team to find a van to travel to various placed within a two hour radius to pick them up. This is to happen on Monday after a route is planned and our tubes are 110% confirmed. 

The tube team weren't the only ones to be busy. Publicity also had some amazing progress along with a genius of an idea that was the brain-child of James (team leader of publicity). We have come up with a sponsorship scheme where we will offer packages of Gold, Silver and Bronze to local architects and companies. Each package has different perks, with Gold being the most advantageous with regards to advertising their services. A brochure was produced for this last night and will be sent out today. 

It was all busy in the publicity office

We were also able to organise a meeting with Tom Jefferies, head of Manchester School of Architecture, to try and reduce the costs of using CAM in the workshop as we felt that what we wanted to do was seriously disproportionate to the cost. We are hoping to send him a spreadsheet of all the costings so that he can help us further.

Today, we are hoping to plan road trips, contact architects and get this design finalised with the new tube sizes. It's all good on the home front!