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of equipment or whatever e.g. while laboratories are being moved. If we
store the empty crates for us in that room during the demo. Maybe your
> 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
> ___________________________
> Holly L. Aaron
> Molecular Imaging Center
> Cancer Research Laboratory
> University of California Berkeley
> 251 LSA #2751
> Berkeley, CA 94720-2751
> 510.642.2901
> 510.642.5741 fax
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