bloody architects

It's more likely to be the electrical consultant who has made a dog's breakfast of it ... the architect and project manager may be blissfully unaware. Lets walk through your post: > I had a call-out today to a new school theatre, less than a year old. Less than a year old, the building is still likely to be in the contractual defects period with the builder. Get the principal on the phone to architect/builder/project manager. > The house lighting system is too complex for the staff to work and no manual. Electrical or AV consultant - get them out to the site. They signed off on the kit - if it's unfit for purpose the school should tell them quickly. > The step lights have been glued in, some are already dead. The consultants specification should have reference Australian Standard 1680.4 Interior Lighting - Maintenance of Electric Lighting Systems. Section 6.2 is what you are after ... "Provision should be made ... for relamping ..." Get the consultant and builder out to site and show them how the fitting is unacceptable. > There are electric winches on all 6 bars. > There is no ladder, one is supposed to focus lights by raising and lowering bars till you get them all right. Ask the architect who designed the system and again get track down the person responsible. It will have almost certainly been farmed out to a specialist consultant to design. > Having spent all this money on bells and whistles they could only afford 20 parcans 6 fresnels and 4 cyc lights and the parcans are open backed single insulated- for kids? > No profiles. This one is a bit tougher ... awkward questions like who generated the consultants brief are needed here. > So a million dollars on [my guess] we have a non functional teaching venue. > This is a state school paid for by tax-payers. > How do they get away with it? Pure and simple lack of professional expertise at several levels. Mark -- Tech & Server Wrangler