Within the IFC Management System the allocation of Project Number 8000 had been anticipated with some expectation for sometime. Who would get it, what would the project be, etc? When Project Number 8000 came up it was in connection with an extension designed to house a new ‘IT’ Department, for a large school in Brixham, South Devon (Churston Ferrers Grammar School). One of the engineering team saw the project and immediately recognised it as the school in Devon that he attended soon after the school opened. The coincidence went further because on the website of the school in question was a picture of the first year entry and guess what, Richard Kelly, the engineer in question was to be seen within that school photograph.
Etiquette demands that we do not declare how long ago that photograph was taken, but let us just say that the engineer in question looked an awful lot younger at that time and ‘IT’ hadn’t been invented. Being a busy practice it is not unusual for projects to have a link with the past for some of the engineers, David Ive for instance finds that he may have worked on the design of a particular building in his previous life in architecture, but this coincidence was of a greater magnitude than any of our previous experience.
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