By the way please make sure to credit photo's & text as its a public forum and so people can find the stuff.
I have been trying to get my head around all the various players in this whole project & have made a list which helps me start to understand the structure. Hopefully useful to you. I have copied text from Mitty and Tam's reports to help too:
Client:
bought by Ealing Council in
1997 (Formerly Kensington & Chelsea playing fields)competition winner Art2Architecture in 2000, became Form Associates
(Consisting of (Artist) Landscape Architect Peter Fink and Architect Igor Marko)
contributing to masterplan the development." ELA 09/2011; "thousands of residents
involved in consultation" Peter Fink in Green Places, 02/2007]
Paul McKenzie ACinstCES survey director of McKenzie
Geospatial Surveys undertook the leading role in the geospatial engineering of
the park.
are these linked to the previous companies on the above
line?
‘He (Paul) was first involved in the project at contract
tender stage with the company CJ Pryor (contract) ltd in 2002.’
Civils contractor CJ
Pryor and Landscape contractor CR Swift
‘From listening to Paul it is clear that the job was not
simple in anyway, he says “the construction of the conical mounds was a
challenge.” The material, as it was being placed progressively to the top of
each mound would create boulders that rolled down the 1in3 gradient slopes and
would then destroy the site batterails which radiated out from the centre. This
required constant rechecking and engineering from both Paul and the rest of the
team.’
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Here is Tam's NB email from the last meeting:
Notes of/actions from our meeting on Friday:
1. We have 8 weeks until hand in of the report on 11 March; we don't
know when the presentation will be scheduled.
2. We discussed producing a diagram of how we are breaking down work -
to be completed.
3. We agreed that we would focus first on Part 1 of the brief: summary
of the project and design team
4. ACTION - All to continue to research project & design team;
agreed that we would each look at this from the point of view of one of the
design team members:
- Matt - Ecologist (Peter Neal Associates)
- Matt - Ecologist (Peter Neal Associates)
- Kevin - Contractor (CR Swift/CJ Pryor)
- Tam - Consultation (Art4Space/ Northolt Extended Schools Project/
Ealing Council)
- Mitti - Engineering (Techniker/ Peter Brett Assoc.)
- Elena - Competition stage design team (Form Assoc. (known as
Art2Architecture at the time)
- Valentinos - Client (Ealing Council)
- Victor - (after discussion on the train into London) Construction
stage design team (LDA)
- Cristina - that leaves Project Manager (EDAW). If you want to swap,
let us know as soon as possible
and write a one page summary of the project from that team member's
viewpoint by Fri 1st Feb. Cover all relevant bullet points under (1) in the
brief.
5. Also start to list questions for next stage of research, including
talking to team members.
6. Next meeting: 2pm Friday 1st February.
We didn't discuss:
- Visiting the site?
- Does anyone have any contacts at any of the firms listed above?
Let me know if I've missed anything or got anything wrong...
Regards
Tam
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On the 2nd last point - lets visit the site - when are people availible?
