Hi Holly,

Our Receiving Dept has some big room underground where they store pieces 
of equipment or whatever e.g. while laboratories are being moved.  If we 
ask them very nicely a few weeks ahead of a demo, they always agree to 
store the empty crates for us in that room during the demo.  Maybe your 
Receiving department would have something similar?

Good luck!
Alison


Holly Aaron wrote:
> 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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