October 2024

Report Date

October 2024

Achievements this period

• Met with members of the Vet School to discuss their concerns relating to the timing of annual upgrades.  Agreed that once the budget for this year is known and room priority list is created, additional staff will be included in the communications.  If it's possible, a preference would be to carry out some of the Vet School upgrades during the Easter break.
• Initial room requests from Vet School have been added to the project brief.

Issues

• The proposed budget for this year is 22% less than last year and none of the funding requested to be carried over, due to the staff resourcing issues from last year, has been approved.  This means that after the already committed spend for the delayed rooms from last year, the proposed budget for this year is 75% less than last year.  Other funding streams will be investigated to see what's possible.

Next Steps

• Complete list of rooms requiring upgrades for the different campus locations and add to the project brief.
• Prioritise list of rooms to upgrade this year based on available funding and communicate out to the relevant staff/groups.
• Create AV designs and then tender documents for each of the new room upgrades.