Potluck

7^th August 2014 (Thursday)

Today we had a workshop with Matthew Tuckker (Matt). This workshop was actually a discussion session between group members and lecturer. He was discussing with us about the coursework task given to us. He explained about one of the evaluation criteria for the coursework which is the SWOT analysis and evaluation. SWOT is a tool that helps identify the Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats of a body or an organisation.

Matt explaining to us

For the coursework, we have to do a SWOT analysis for the current building and the impact on the maintenance and FM services to be provided. In order to prepare our SWOT analysis, Matt asked us to be rational and put in our logic thinking in the decision. Every groups were provided with two sheets of A1 paper to list out and brainstormed the SWOT analysis of the case study building (Aldham Robarts Learning Centre) by considering of respective issues which are: core business requirements, customers/students, building/technology, space requirements, sustainability, procurement, and cost. Before the lunch break, he gave us an hour to work on our own in our group at the computer lab.

Group discussion session

For the lunch break, we (the girls) had our own meals that we have prepared from the morning while the boys prefer to walk back to the accommodation place to have their lunch.

We continued our learning session with Michael Farragher (Mike) after the lunch break. Mike explained to us about the sustainability and design of a building. An hour before the session ended, he took us to the computer lab and thought us how to use a software to draw a building plan which is called Revit. Revit is much easier to be used compared to AutoCAD software that we have learned before. Before the class ended, Mike also helped some of our colleague to register in a gym that was provided by LJMU.

After the class ended, we decided to do our own activities. Aqilah and I goes to the Lime Street Station to purchase an advance train ticket for a journey from London to York as Aqilah had decided to meet her friend that is studying in York. After that, we headed to Liverpool One and Queen Square area to buy some groceries as we planned to have a Yassin recitation together that night. For the Yassin recitation, we have decided to do it at the boys flat and we were having our meals by potluck. Our house decided to prepare vegetables soup, chicken in soy sauce and curry eggplant. The boys prepared pizzas and cooked rice for us while the other girls house cooked chicken in red chilly sauce and omelettes. The Chinese are not joining us as they already have their dinner and they are too tired.

Written by: Dg Badariah

p/s; sorry for the late upload. My previous post have been accidentaly deleted by my colleague.