Going down a storm
Lane, T.
Going down a storm - 2003 - Building 268(8311) 5 December 2003, 54-56(3) .
Describes the recent relocation of the Meteorological Office from its former home in Bracknell, Berkshire to a purpose-built building in Exeter. This included the biggest IT facilities relocation ever attempted in Europe with two supercomputers having to be moved. All of this had to be completed without a break in the Meteorological Office's service. The new building's procurement route was unusual in that the client paid for the building and the land but this had the effect of speeding up the whole process. The design of the new building has been criticised by an architectural watchdog as being competent business park architecture but the Meteorological Office argues that this unspectacular appearance is deliberate and part of the strategy to create an efficient and functional headquarters.
METEOROLOGICAL OFFICE
BRACKNELL
EXETER
RELOCATION
IT STRATEGY
PFI
PROCUREMENT STRATEGY
Going down a storm - 2003 - Building 268(8311) 5 December 2003, 54-56(3) .
Describes the recent relocation of the Meteorological Office from its former home in Bracknell, Berkshire to a purpose-built building in Exeter. This included the biggest IT facilities relocation ever attempted in Europe with two supercomputers having to be moved. All of this had to be completed without a break in the Meteorological Office's service. The new building's procurement route was unusual in that the client paid for the building and the land but this had the effect of speeding up the whole process. The design of the new building has been criticised by an architectural watchdog as being competent business park architecture but the Meteorological Office argues that this unspectacular appearance is deliberate and part of the strategy to create an efficient and functional headquarters.
METEOROLOGICAL OFFICE
BRACKNELL
EXETER
RELOCATION
IT STRATEGY
PFI
PROCUREMENT STRATEGY