Hi Holly
During our annual FRET workshop or for any demo unit the university
allows me to keep the crates in the hall way for couple of weeks. Beyond two
weeks I have to pay to keep the crates in a storage space. University will not
pay, the center has to pay.
Hope this helps.
Prof. Ammasi Periasamy
Director, Keck Center for Cellular Imaging (KCCI)
Professor of Biology and Biomedical Engineering
Biology, Gilmer Hall (064), 485 McCormick Rd
University of Virginia
Charlottesville, VA 22904
Voice: 434-243-7602 (Office); 982-4869 (lab)
Fax:434-982-5210; Email:[hidden email]
http://www.kcci.virginia.edu/Contact/peri.php
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From: Confocal Microscopy
List [mailto:[hidden email]] On Behalf Of Holly Aaron
Sent: Tuesday, August 10, 2010 3:29 PM
To: [hidden email]
Subject: Off Topic: Space for Demos and Crates/Boxes
Dear Listers - Sorry for the slightly off-topic question,
but I figure many of you have demos at your institutes when you are planning to
purchase equipment or write grants.
The situation is such: The buliding where my facility
is housed is under "new management" that insists boxes and crates
cannot be stored in the hallway at all. Mind you, the hallways are quite narrow
for a "science" building, 6-feet across. Previously, as long as
we left 3-feet of clearance for fire-code, it was okay to leave the boxes in
the hall. I barely have enough space to host an installed demo system with
enough room for users to gather around it. I do not have space in the facility
to store boxes and crates. The "management" tells me they do not have
any storage available. They say the vendor should have the shipping company
come and take the crates after the install and bring them back for the
tear-down.
So my question is this: What do other academic institues do
for demo boxes/crates?
I do not think we can compete with industry options or maybe
even private schools, but it would be good to know what others are doing. Is
storage included in your overhead costs? Does your department provide space for
demo setups and storage? Will vendors be able to have the boxes held
off-site? Or will some vendors not bring demos with these restrictions? I
do know that it is almost always the case that the equipment arrives a day or
two in advance of the install and that without fail, there is always a cable
left in one of the boxes which has to be found at some later point, making
off-site storage seem less than ideal.
Thanks for the info.
-Holly
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Holly L. Aaron
Molecular Imaging Center
Cancer Research Laboratory
University of California Berkeley
251 LSA #2751
Berkeley, CA 94720-2751
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510.642.5741 fax
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