Week 8: We just got "Office Spaced"

This week was pretty crazy! Looking back we were so busy it was almost a blurr!

VCT in the staff hall in the Cancer Institute!Monday was actually pretty slow. Heather was on vacation this week and Rebecca and I got off to a slow start. We did walkthroughs of UFP, 12 East, MOB A,B, and C which were getting new carpeting, and we did a walkthrough of the Cancer Institute. We also went by and saw the rennovations being done in the Pathology department that I worked on at the beginning of the summer. We brightened up the department with a lighter paint and carpet color. It made it seem as if the lighting had been improved! Because it had been so hot and so rainy we hadn't seen the Cancer Institute in a while. It was crazy to see the progress that had happened! There is paint on most of the walls and the 4th floor has VCT! We also did a walkthrough of the Patient Registration project with Danielle from Lewis Group. She is helping us with this project (kind of like an unofficial joint venture) because we have so much on our plates with other projects. Needless to say we did a lot of walking on Monday! (I am glad I had on comfortable shoes!)

Tuesday Rebecca and I were given a huge list of work to do to prepare for a presentation for the end of the week. We needed to add some temporary signage to the new roundabout, which is a part of the new main road they built this summer! Its already open! We also had to prepare graphics and a layout for departmental progress posters. Each needed a space for individual progress as well as the goals for the hospital. We needed to have 14 printed and mounted onto foam core by the end of the week! We also had to prepare renderings of the Dirtt Wall we are working on for the new Patient Regustration project. This will be a wall which will have 8 8'x8' lightboxes with illuminated images of different scenes. This is a project I have been working on this summer, and it was almost ready for a presentation. We had no elevations of the walls, and in order to explain the project we knew we would need rendered elevations and perspectives. 

Preparing for this presentation was our goal for the remainder of the week. We had until 3PM ThursdayWorking on renderings! to do all of the progress posters, renderings, and drawings. It completely consumed the remainder of the week, but we got it done with a few hours to spare! We even had to stay late Wednesday when some last minute changes were made to the progress posters at 4:59PM! Though it didn't take too long to fix we joked about getting "Office Spaced" by our boss!

The rest of the day Thursday we organized some of the papers and work we did for the day and we opened and played with the new blown glass samples for an art installation in the Cancer Institute.

Houseboat we stayed on this weekend!Friday I started teaching Mary Beth a few things in AutoCAD before I headed to Lucas, KY for the weekend with some friends! We spent the weekend on my friend's uncle's 83' houseboat on Barren River Lake! It was the biggest boat I have been on in a lake! 16 people could sleep in it! Though it rained most of the weekend we still had fun taking out a smaller boat to cruise and go tubing! It was a great way to beat the heat that has been going on this summer!

This week was a good week to talk about presentations considering I spent most of the week preparing for one! Usually we use AutoCAD, Photoshop, SketchUp, and Corel Draw to prepare for presentations. Depending on the phase of the project we could present with drawings, sketches, color schemes, loose materials, or final finish boards. It also depends on who we present to and how formal the presentation is. Sometimes when we are just getting approvals for fabrics we will have our selections pinned up, with backups within reach. If things have already been approved and need to be presented we will have final drawings and finish boards for the clients to see.

This week I got to know Danielle from Lewis Group. I do not have a picture of her because I was so captivated in getting all the work done this week. However I did learn that she has a daughter named Hannah, which I think is a great name! She is very helpful and nice and made me feel included in meetings and walkthroughs we did with her this week.