Minutes of Group Meeting 28/11/11

An initial group meeting was held to issue tasks to all of the group members, discuss some initial concepts and create the blog on which to post our work.

Those attending were:

·         Ross Catchpole

·         Richard Brennan

·         Dave Brown

·         James Golding

·         James Flanagan

It was decided that the following people will carry out the following tasks and present their work/findings to the group on 5/12/11 at the next group meeting, as well as posting it on the group blog.

James Golding - Submit Gant Chart onto Blog
                          Submit Group roles to Gareth
                          Research winch / lifting systems and their pro’s and con’s

James Flanagan – Research into material types. Justify choices of materials for different components of possible concepts.

Richard Brennan - Research current crane systems and consider what calculations will be required with different concepts.

Ross Catchpole - Costs of crane system case studies
                            Consider costs involved with tender
                               Research joint types for possible concepts

Dave Brown -      Sketch Concepts and consider pro’s and con’s of each
                           Research size and weight restrictions on crane

The decision was made during the meeting to move the project forward quickly in order to allow maximum time to analyse the design and solve any problems we are to be faced with.