Welcome to my blog. I had one thought in mind when I first expressed a notion to write an infrequent blog of my activities as Chair of BIFM, openness. All too often the workings of an organisation seem distant and irrelevant and I wanted to try and introduce the human element. This is it. Over the coming two years I plan to upload some thoughts, accounts of actions and events and to generally make some comments on the facilities management industry and BIFM. I plan to do this on average every two weeks, we'll see if that idea lasts.
Architectural madness!
25-06-08, 03:37
I have just spotted the most ridiculous architectural proposal of all time, a moving skyscraper, you have to see this, there is a video at:
I can think of a thousand reasons why this would be nuts, and all of them would fall to the FM team to manage. Let’s start with the services, there would assumedly be a core which the rest of building would rotate around, but think of the connections to that core for the remaining services such as air, power, water, it would be a nightmare.
Then there is the motion itself, can you imagine a building where visitors who suffered from any kind of motion sickness could not visit you? What about the poor window cleaner, I suppose he just gets rotated around it on a wire!
What happens when the mechanism that actually rotates the floors breaks, how do you get access to fix that, eighty storeys up?
How do you get planning for a building that has a googolplex of possible looks, I can hear the Glasgow planners reaction now, it would be the sound a seagull makes, “wha-et”.
This is a perfect example of why architects and designers need to listen to FM, because if someone is mad enough to build this, then I would not want to be the one who looks after it!
