According to the recommendation made to Council Committee on May 12, it was the Joint Venturers in the Data Centre who sought an extension of time, “to finalise the fit-out, designs confirmed and costed, contractors engaged and installation work completed.”
However Director David Lindsay, of Vue DC, one of the Joint Venture partners, refutes that version of events. He explained during a telephone interview from Melbourne that the extension of time was necessary because the Lease documents were not ready for signing by the May 1 commencement date of the original agreement. “It was not our preference to delay, because we have work scheduled, and all our equipment is presently in storage in Perth.”
When asked if he expected to be up and running in the new premises by September 1 as suggested in the Council agenda, Mr Lindsay said “We need to be set up well before then, otherwise we will have real trouble with our production schedule.”
Mr Lindsay declined to comment on specific projects which were scheduled, explaining that they were client privileged, and he was not free to discuss them at this time.
“But I can say we are looking forward to working with Edith Cowan University’s media department, and we will continue to offer the same services to clients as we provided in Perth, but on a larger scale. The data centre is going to harness more than 500 discrete processor units, which makes a range of graphical representations possible, both for scientific simulation and for 3d graphic alternate realities. We can provide clients with the computing power to generate Cinema quality animation, for example.”
He and his wife are looking forward to making the move to Bunbury and establishing themselves on land they have purchased in the Capel Shire.