Volunteers from the Cookeville office arrived at the same time with the Contractor, USFWS engineering inspector, and local power company. The one day team project completed many days of planned work including emptying the shipping containers, setting up trial shelving, sorting interior hardware, and moving full trailer loads of insulation and landscaping debris.
A new 3-phase power pole is now installed with a trenched burial line to the building. HVAC slab pouring and configuration preparations are complete with a central location scoped for the interior air handler. Both crews seeing the dedication from the contractor (Micheal Melton Inc) putting in some above and beyond finishing touches was a lucky coincidence that added a layer of accomplishment to the day.
Many hands make light work and the dual crews made for a successful trial run at testing the output and value of a collaborative project day. We鈥檙e planning the second project day to include running hundreds of feet of water line,
building interior walls, assembling shelves, planning trees, digging a septic/leach field, and installing huge amounts of the interior plumbing/electrical efficiently. The collaborative work results in high output with a positive work experience that offers lots of opportunities for creativity, hard work, innovation, and hopefully camaraderie.
There are many goals of these teams including:
- Outfitting a hatchery warehouse into an operational fish rearing structure structure
Something temporarily or permanently constructed, built, or placed; and constructed of natural or manufactured parts including, but not limited to, a building, shed, cabin, porch, bridge, walkway, stair steps, sign, landing, platform, dock, rack, fence, telecommunication device, antennae, fish cleaning table, satellite dish/mount, or well head.
Learn more about structure - Designing new rearing research projects
- Innovating new intensive culture designs
- Building a visitor and meeting center
Establishing a cooperative framework and physical repository for a core facet of endangered aquatic species recovery
Strategic results from this collaborative work is maximizing the skill and knowledge potential of USFWS into a self-sustaining results oriented template of engineering and science backed by a factory of usable tools to accomplish mission goals unrestrained by limited budgets, low staffing, government contracting, or intellectual bottlenecks. Crews will have expanded career potentials, Ecological Services will have a solid foundation of genetic availability, and Dale Hollow NFH will have a way to contribute their motivation and skills to a partner with the same goals.
We are building dynamic/entertaining possibilities for creativity and individual accomplishment with the only guiderails being that all of the core systems are build fast and effective at minimal cost and target species accomplishments are met as the primary collaborative goals.
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