rowan.depomerai

One of the challenges I work on in developing BBC R&D North’s new premesis (both the interim solution and our long term base at MediaCity:UK) is figuring out just what we as a department need to do our work. I’ve talked a little about the technology, but the physical environment is important too. Just what makes a space that engineers can work effectively in? I’d love to hear any suggestions you may have (use the comments), but I also thought I’d share some quotes I found when trying to quantify and communicate the environment we’re trying to create.

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It’s been quite a while now since I started working on BBC R&D’s North Lab. I’ve thoroughly failed to provide any updates, for which I apologise, but I think it falls under the category of “the more is happening, the less time you have to blog about it”! We’ve been ploughing ahead with our interim lab which will tide us over for the next two years or so on the existing BBC Manchester site, and planning for MediaCity:UK at Salford, which is our longer-term solution. My main focus was to be the former, but I’ve increasingly been pulled in to helping plan for MCUK; as you can probably imagine, it’s a very large project requiring a lot of effort. But perhaps we’re starting to work out just what it takes to build an R&D lab…

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