If you must keep me on hold playing dreary music please don’t keep interrupting to play a recording saying how important my call is and apologise. Every time the music cuts out and I hear a voice I get excited I may be about to speak to a real human…
[Grrrr]
What’s a steam train got to do with modern building services? Continue reading
Reviewing an IT quotation for a school project we’re working on, the specialist has allowed for something listed as an Elmo Visualiser. Sadly, this has little to do with showing a muppet 🙁
[Amused]
I just realised it’s seven years to the day that I’ve been at EngDesign. As that’s about the time of degree plus maybe I should get more in the habit of describing myself as an engineer rather than a physicist…
Things probably not in the job description: Helping to wind the mechanism of an old cattle market clock.
So UKPN won’t talk to me because I’m not the name on an application form. The name on it is my colleague’s, who is now on holiday for a fortnight. Best advice: Redo the whole thing. #idiots
[Annoyed]
A lot of steam yet no trains! Continue reading
I’ve just begun to develop a lighting scheme (for a school hall and extension) in Dialux. As I was examining the space I’d built I came across this view—couldn’t help but think of a modernist painting; accidental art in the building services!
Final got a page up about The Greenways, one of EngDesigns recent projects. One of the first zero-carbon residential developments with some interesting features.
Some spectacular bridges (though I might be biased as number one is in my home town!) The unusual bridges is worth a look too.