Build & Breakdown Plan
Pain points in previous build/breakdown
To put it lightly, it sucked, but we'll list the pain points here so we can make sure we figure out a proper plan to prevent all of them from happening again.
Here's a high level table mapping out what sucked and what was great as well:
| What sucked | What was awesome |
Ideas for easy build
The Containers Idea
The idea here is that we purchase one or two containers, and we prepare them such that when they are dropped on Playa, we unlock them, pop out solar panels, pop out showers, have a hole at the top for water services to fill our water storage, a hole on the side/bottom for grey water services to pump our grey water out.
The containers would also have a fully equipped kitchen, fridges & freezers, pantry, and storage for dry foods, drinking water, folding tables & chairs, furniture, etc.
A massive tarp could be stretched between the two containers to create shade. We can make this even fancier by adding poles at the top of the containers to make the shade structure larger, and have it slanting down to the sides.
Sundeep
Get a trailer / container to replace the Reno storage. We then get a company to pick up that trailer or container to drop it off on playa and pick it up at the end.
We talked about getting a box truck, where we would keep fridges and freezers year round. This would allow us to drive it to something like a Costco, buy the ingredients and then immediately stock them in the fridges & freezers.
Buy a shelving system that fits a container we alreadybuy, and we then inventory everything we have in storage and arrange in boxes. Everything gets arranged into a grid system, and it should be extremely simple to locate items (foreven examplewhen we're off site, by looking at the inventory management system).
Consider what to do with our brown intercontinental,intercontinental (where we previously had our radio station setup). It is currently full of various items such as our showers, our kitchen tent, shade structure poles & canvases, etc.