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Why would Cable Street be down to one lane in February when the work is described as being on Wakefield Street, or is this just the usual “efficient” WCC PR team not knowing how to edit a cut & paste?
The convention centre will be a waste. There is a stadium near the railway station that needs a roof.
Brilliant, a convention centre being built in the height of a global pandemic. WCC provides ever more reasons not to travel into the CBD, no parking, traffic congestion due to burst pipes and multiple closed roads. Not sure what the goal is here??
Conventional wisdom has it that conventions for which people must travel in long-haul jet aircraft are a thing of the past. The Covid-19 pandemic reinforces that conclusion.
Eliminating jet travel to conventions anywhere in the world will drastically reduce the emissions of greenhouse gases which are contributing to catastrophic climate change.
Instead of flying to conventions from now on, people will be able to share their wisdom and make decisions by ZOOM or by SKYPE. Employers will benefit because their staff will be able to spend all their time at work, instead of wasting it flying back and forth and wasting their employers’ money on airfares and hotel bills.
@ Chris Horne. COVID has indeed required many innovations and behaviour modifications. One would hope that in the future many international meetings, including conferences of the parties to the UN Paris Agreement on Climate Change, might be carried out by making full use of ZOOM or SKYPE. This would also have the benefit of saving Ministers and officials the embarrassment of preaching one thing to their publics, such as the need to reduce air travel, and appearing to do quite the opposite.
Appreciate the update and looking forward to this wonderful design being realised. This city does need a convention center. As for zoom and skype – rubbish. They cannot replace an in-person gathering. Many of us have learned this the hard way in 2020.
Zoom and Skype certainly have a place as does working from home and four-day weeks. A mix of the above probably the way to go. The convention centre is not needed, WCC’s other venues are under utilised. There are many more basic things to pay for. This is a glamour project. And will possibly be a white elephant.
Are they sure they haven’t underestimated the work involved with such a massive engineering undertaking? Installing 3 waters to a building and electricity – 24 days in one month and 26 in the next, with work 24 hours a day.
Pardon me if I don’t believe it. There has to be more than just that, because if true, we have some serious skill, project management and credibility shortages. And so far with this massive undertaking, it hasn’t been 24 hours, and one lane has been used primarily to park a digger overnight.
I suggest a satisfaction survey. One of those multiple choice ones with questions designed to give the required outcome.