MEMO
TO: Professor Ellis
FROM: Peterchris Florentino, Aremi Ruiz, Ashley Silva, Justin Song
DATE: May 18, 2015
SUBJECT: Reduce Elevator Traffic in the Namm Proposal

As students of New York City College of Technology, we, Thinking Techs, frequently need to take the elevators in order to get to our classes. While many students are physically capable of taking the stairs to reach their classes and do so, the majority of everyone else isn’t or is just not willing to do so. The result is that we experience extremely crowded waiting areas on the 1^st and G-floors in the Namm building. With such large crowds, students end up waiting for the elevators on average longer than 5 minutes and up to 15 minutes in some cases. Not only are the crowds large creating long wait times, but because students are always in such a rush to get to their classes, many will jump ahead of the lines as they come in from the Jay St entrance and crowd themselves into elevators, being unfair and uncourteous to students who were appropriately waiting. This causes a great frustration for students and because of the crowding and unfair boarding, it causes many students and staff to be late to their classes and unhappy with the quality of the elevator system.

Thinking Techs recognized this issue and sought out to find solutions that would reduce the crowding, get students and staff to their classes on time, and greatly improve their satisfaction with the service. We noted that the Namm elevators were not the only elevators on the main campus and that the most prominent other elevators were the two elevators in the Atrium building. However, one elevator is out of service and the other in such poor condition it is rarely used by students. Thus, as one of our solutions we propose to replace those elevators with new, modern elevators like the Namm. Our other solution is to create better organization to prevent unfair boarding by use of retractable line barriers and traffic regulators. Throughout the project, we researched what needed to be done to make these things happen including budgets and schedules. We also conducted surveys and interviews to confirm student and faculty dissatisfaction and to find out their opinions on our proposed solutions. We created promotional material so that we can also bring awareness to our cause and gain support.

Below is the proposal and other deliverables for Project 2:

Proposal_Blog

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Final Proposal:  p1
Proposal Appendix: p18
Promo Deliverables: p26Promo Memos: p29
Meeting Minutes: p33
Pitch Presentation: p49
Pitch Script: p55
Proposal Draft 1: p57
Proposal Draft 2: p66