[Bradford] BCB Covid sort of update

[David Carpenter]

Hello John

The move will still need to happen.

AFAIK, the plans to demolish the building, market, etc are still in place.
The new market is under construction and I think they hope to deliver it
on  time.

We keep saying '2 years' is how long we have left in the building, but we
seem to have been saying that for a while!

(Personal musings, not BCB's line) I've been wondering out loud about
whether or not we should use this time as an opportunity to get out now,
save ourselves some rent and rates, and look at how we provide what we do
differently. The building does seem to pose a number of problems due to the
size of spaces, the way it is used, and the lack of ventilation. Bearing in
mind that a move under 'business as usual' conditions would have been hard
work, maybe it's easier under present conditions (to at least move out).
Dunno!

As an additional consideration. I'm not entirely sure (!?) whether current
covid restrictions in the district would mean that even if we we're 'covid
secure' people would be restricted to the numbers of households that could
meet indoors at one time - Maybe we could have lots of separate meetings in
the same room!

Cheers
David




On Mon, 7 Sep 2020 at 11:19, John Robert Hudson via Bradford <
bradford at mailman.lug.org.uk> wrote:

> HI David
>
> Thanks. I take it that the move has now been put on hold or will that
> happen
> any time soon which might change the options?
>
> John
>
> On Monday, 7 September 2020 09:36:09 BST David Carpenter via Bradford
> wrote:
> > Just to chip in on the status of BCB...
> > (Starting this as a new thread so we can discuss here if you like)
> >
> > There is a small working group of staff and management committee working
> on
> > options around opening the building. This includes writing a risk
> > assessment for the building and activities, and some proposals about how
> > the building could be used. This will involve some consultation with
> > 'building users' at some point.
> >
> > My personal understanding so far is that we're unlikely to be able to go
> > back to business as usual - which for Bradlug this was going into an
> > already busy building and occupying a part of it for a few hours.
> >
> > I could see that with the numbers, BradLug could meet in the larger open
> > area, at a time where there were not other people in the building (this
> > could also apply to other small groups) - I don't think the smaller
> meeting
> > rooms are safe for more than a few people for a short period of time. In
> > the larger area, that might also be for a shorter time than usual, and it
> > maybe that you would want to know that that area had not been in use for
> > e.g. 24/48/72 hours previously. There would probably be hand washing, and
> > cleaning/wiping down to be done by the group (before and after? Table
> > surfaces, projector, door handles?)
> >
> > Just to say - the only ventilation in the building is via the doors -
> there
> > is no air conditioning. (There are a couple of fans - one in studio 1,
> one
> > in the racks room currently) .
> >
> > If people have ideas/opinions about how BradLUG can operate at BCB I'd be
> > happy to hear them and feed them into the process internally at BCB
> >
> > All the best
> > David Carpenter
>
>
>
>
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