The Treehouse - discussions with the CSU building team

This week I have had three meetings with Matt Newton and the CSU team who are in charge of building works. They are a great team.

Sharynne, Donna Bateup, Kelly Tribolet, Blake Edwards, Shane O'Brien, Matt Newton

After talking with Matt and Sean Sun, I have named The Treehouse's building stages in the following way:

• Stage 1: Horse - what we need - 2024
  
• Stage 2: Zebra - what we want - 2025
  
• Stage 3: Unicorn - what we really want - 2025+

I am very grateful to the DVC-R Mark Evans, Pat McKenna from the DVC-R's office and Michelle Crosby the Chief Operating Officer (COO) who have advanced this work plan. We are now going through all of the documentation, checks, and permissions. We are hoping that it may be able to be completed in November 2024 in time for our ECV2024 conference.

I also learned from Matt Winslade (Associate Dean Research, Faculty of Arts and Education) that our office building has two apartments at the back - so we also were able to look at these during the site visit with Matt Newton. This would be an amazing space for visiting international and national academics, postgraduate students, etc.