Anagram’s Current Activities

The Anagram team has been exceptionally busy the last few months due to the progress being made on getting the tenders released, with construction hopefully set to commence in the coming months once the contracts are awarded.

The responsibilities we’re currently focusing on are dual:

– Revising working drawings based on recent site surveys, making it possible for all systems to work in smooth collaboration with each other following the natural flow and order of things.

– Trying to get surveys completed as quick as possible, as these will spur a series of interdependent events (i.e., revising sewage drawings, which in turn will be reflected in plumbing drawings, which further will be reflected in the architectural drawings.)

In thinking about what is most significant about these activities, it is ensuring that making the sewage systems work. This is arguably the most important aspect of the facilities, and often is the point of failure for existing community toilets in India’s urban slums. While we are not singularly focused on this, it is never far from our minds.

Accomplishing these responsibilities requires a great deal of coordination and communication required between all partners. This is in and of itself quite a challenge, as everyone has their own set of work, and making it fit right in some other place takes some effort. Further compounding this is the fact that the teams working on them are not physically near each other, with Anagram being based in Delhi and the Sammaan technical team being based in Bhubaneswar.

In looking forward, we want to deliver all drawings to the technical team such that they are as easily understood as possible to ensure that construction is carried out in the best possible manner, and in accordance to the designs.

After visiting Bhubaneswar, we developed a more compassionate rapport with the technical team and left with an understanding that, though some tasks which Anagram thought a complete waste of valuable time that could be invested in making the designs better, are as important towards the project as the technical team really is too busy with other activities and oftentimes can’t devote as much time as is needed for those tasks.

We would very much like to continue this newly developed approach towards the project, even though we still feel if it could be possible for us to draw our energies towards more meaningful parts of design than these repetitive tasks.

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