https://padlet.com/m_mccann1/xy2sjgmzymp8 Each group member should post a brief description of a project here en-us 2018-01-29 14:52:52 UTC 2025-12-06 18:12:02 UTC hello@padlet.com m_mccann1 https://padlet.com/m_mccann1/xy2sjgmzymp8/wish/225651126 Mel Hill
Naomi Hollas
Jessica Hornal
Aimee Lawrie]]> 2018-01-29 14:53:32 UTC https://padlet.com/m_mccann1/xy2sjgmzymp8/wish/225651126 mhill201 https://padlet.com/m_mccann1/xy2sjgmzymp8/wish/227928251 The Edinburgh Hogmanay 2018 took place over 3 days with 7 different events and over 150,000 people involved to celebrated its 25th birthday. It had many subsidiary projects such as the Torchlight Procession, Ceilidh under the castel, Street Party, concert in the gardens and more. I was involved with the torchlight procession project as part of the Edinburgh Hogmanay Ambassador programme as a supervisor. The iconic Torchlight Procession was used to announce the #ScotWord: a spectacular visual moment marking the beginning of 2018 as Scotland’s Year of Young People. It involved 40,000 members of the public to walk down the royal mile to Holyrood Gardens where unrehearsed the public where guided into the Scotword #BRAW. I was not involved within the budgeting side of the project but there were time constraints due to the nature of the project as it involved a aerial photography. The helicopter only had enough fuel for a short timeframe so it was critical to have the public within the outlines of all letters of the word within the 30 minute window to capture the photo completed word to publicise all over the world. There were also contingency plans for weather due to the nature of flames with wind and rain, thousands of glow sticks were on hand to replace the torches. Communication was key between choreographers and volunteers to insure within the word that torches were all lit and people within the outlines when the photograph was being captured. ]]> 2018-02-04 23:42:50 UTC https://padlet.com/m_mccann1/xy2sjgmzymp8/wish/227928251 https://padlet.com/m_mccann1/xy2sjgmzymp8/wish/228195986 2018-02-05 16:20:13 UTC https://padlet.com/m_mccann1/xy2sjgmzymp8/wish/228195986 nholla202 https://padlet.com/m_mccann1/xy2sjgmzymp8/wish/228337499 The AA 5 star Blythswood Square Hotel is a 19th century townhouse and formally the residence of the Royal Scottish Automobile Club, the hotel opened in 2009. Eight years later, the hotel was sold to Starwood Capital and re-branded as a Principal Hotel. The Principal Blythswood Square Hotel has recently undergone a £650k refurbishment to modernise and update the interiors including bedrooms and the spa. An additional 12 bedrooms have also been built onto the hotel. Over the course of 2018, the hotel will see change to the restaurant and bar area to update the interiors to the Principal standards and requirements. Over the last year, editions were made including splashes of red, including the red phone used in the lobby and new employee uniforms. 

The project of transforming the Blythswood Square Hotel into The Principal Blythswood Square does not only include refurbishment but also changing the image including positive environmental additons and sustainability, project 1898 which is the employee empowerment and reward scheme and 'Local Greats' which recognises the achievements and efforts of employees within the whole company.

The refurbishment is part of a multi million pound upgrade of the hotel with two main phases, due to be completed in may this year. Although, in the past when the hotel was first redeveloped, it was "delayed and difficult". At the moment, the timescale and cost is going to plan, as well as the scope, aims and objectives of the project as the first phase, of refurbishing the majority of rooms is complete. 
The current status of the project is successful.

As an employee, I have been involved and witnessed the changes within the hotel including employee schemes, providing feedback and operatingting the new procedures. 


]]> 2018-02-05 20:12:05 UTC https://padlet.com/m_mccann1/xy2sjgmzymp8/wish/228337499 https://padlet.com/m_mccann1/xy2sjgmzymp8/wish/228367277 The Sydney Opera House is one of the most iconic buildings to date and is a global symbol of Australia. In 1957, the architect Jon Utzon won a government competition to design a public building which began being constructed within 2 years after being sketched. This is a multi-venue performing arts centre which hosts 1,500 performances yearly with an attendance of over 1.2 million. This venue has over 8 million visitors annually with an estimate of 350,000 visitor participating in a tour of the building. This venue features a modern expressionist design with multiple concrete shells composed of spheres to create the iconic structure of the roof.

The project is seen as one of the most disastrous construction projects in history due to the financial and management plan as a whole. This includes failure to indicate time and cost limits, unrestricted goals set prior the project, client changes to the scope (increase from 2 theatres to 4) as well as the resignation of the original architect. 

This project started in 1957 and was planned to be completed within 4 years (1963). However, there was a delay of 10 years which resulted in not being completed until 1973. This resulted in an vast increase of costs pushing the project way over its budget. The budget for the project was estimated at $7 million but it came to a total of $102 million at the end of the project. This is due to drawing disagreements as well as giving more focus on the engineering, structure and design of the building rather than the time and cost aspects. This project was funded by the lottery system and the government stepped in to help fund while monitoring the payments. However, the government noticed an increase of costs but no visible process. Therefore, they withheld 
the payments.

Although, even though the project was seen as a failure due to the expanded timescale and overspend, the building is now a world wide icon which has brought millions of visitors a year. The building became so successful with the public it managed to pay for itself within 2 years of being open (by 1975).]]> 2018-02-05 21:31:17 UTC https://padlet.com/m_mccann1/xy2sjgmzymp8/wish/228367277 https://padlet.com/m_mccann1/xy2sjgmzymp8/wish/228532337 As a part of our course, we are required to host an event for our chosen charity. The objective of this project is to create a well throughout and organised event that would suit the target market, whilst raising money for the charity. We got into groups, our group contained 5 people. We agreed to host a vegas themed event in aid of Ataxia U.K. The project had a time frame of around 10/11 weeks and had to be held by a certain date. There were various tasks to be completed to achieve a successful event. In order to carry out these tasks we split into different roles: marketing manager, operations managers, finance manager and ofcourse project manager who overseen all activity. The event required a large range of resources which we had to aquire to run the event, these included volunteers, the venue, prizes, and entertainment. Our initial budget was a small £100 however we increased this through fundrasing. The event ran smoothly, raising money and on time. ]]> 2018-02-06 11:49:07 UTC https://padlet.com/m_mccann1/xy2sjgmzymp8/wish/228532337