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Interview with Heath Whitaker - Concept Development Director

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BD Imaging, probably accurately, that I know nothing ((laugh)) and that you were talking to somebody who was looking down from Mars, could you give me an overview of that whole process right from the very, very beginning.

HW OK. Well it, it's gone through a number of phases. I mean phase 1 probably marked by what can we do. Phase 2 is probably marked by "hey I fancy having a go at this." There was a bit more money too. Phase 3 was, we were doing it for real, we were doing it on a proper scale, we had to be responsible and do this right, so, there were, a whole range of consultation groups, you know, the education liaison group that we have with local teachers and that sort of thing. And I devised a form which went to every member of staff. Just members of staff, not outside Techniquest because when it all goes wrong or you can't understand what was meant to be happening you need to have somebody you can grab hold of to explain it to you who's, you know, that was the, the instigator. So, but I wanted everybody in Techniquest to have the opportunity to suggest something as an exhibit. That's as close as going to, you know, going to the whole, possible visitor catchment, the best way to do it is to go to all the staff because you have some access to them.

So they were given these things to suggest exhibits on and out of that I teased out the bound green book. I mean this is how the process used to be rather than how it is now but then the process when you've got to build 160 in 2 years is different from, the process now.