Week 6 with some left over week 5

This week I worked at my internship on Tuesday and Wednesday only because I helped work Design Matters! camp with Amy Burns, Matt Hall and four other TAs.  The Camp was awesome!  We had kids come from all over the country. There was a guy and a girl all the way from California, we also had some Texas kids, and tons of Tennessee, Georgia, and Alabama kids.  I My main Design Matters! job was the set up crew as well as the behind the scences/ keeping everyone's files together person.  It was a fun job and we had a ton of free food from some great places.  I also felt like a freshman again eating in the cafeteria, but the food is so much better in the summer when there is less quantity to cook for.  

At my internship this week, I of course did order some samples, but I did get to do some designwork as well.  One of our projects is Synergy and it is going to be located in the Southeastern Glass Company building.  They are wanting to use the original facade letters again.  I helped design two differnt options for the facade and sent it to our clients.  I also worked on updating the website and spent a lot of time finding faucets for three different sinks in the new residence hall. 

Now to finish up all the info from week 5:

The purchasing in the Lauderdale Design group mostly specifies for bidding.  For example, we have specified all the furniture and finishes in the Residence Hall and we had to choose from furniture that was "on contract" and then show it to the Architecture firm with whom we are working. Project fees are negotiated between our principles and the client.  The client may be an architecture firm, or a company. Joy is the principle that handles most of the money through the firm.  She keeps up with e the money with project. She works with an accountant, the bank, and the credit card company we use.  

Week 6 information:

So far at Lauderdale, Dani Collins has been the designer doing the FF&E's for most of our design work this summer.  To keep our materials library up to date, we have lunches and or meetings with our design Representitives from different companies.  We keep our reps up to date within our contact information that is shared in our Lauderdale's outlook email account.  Whenever we make a new contact via ordering samples or other means, we make sure to add the contact to the contact list. 

I did not meet anyone new this week in person, but I did have plenty of phone conversations and emails with Becky Hollingsworth from Forbo.  Messaging and bulliten boards are a huge part of the residence hall design, and Becky is helping out a lot with our questions and needs.  She is quite helpful and is always willing to help!