The Construction

The construction of the unit took an average of eleven (11) minutes and set
up a further fourteen (14) minutes and displayed the feature planting with a
flowering border as required.

Assembling the wire frame component proved difficult to outsource and we
were left with the task of completing it ourselves. This did not prove so
easy when we came to processing close to a thousand units.

The main difficulty proved to be in the dispersal of the units through the
site. This was complicated by the fact that the plan positioning proved not
to be the ideal display point and resulted in several hundred of the units
having to be relocated on site.

This showed one of the weaknesses of the construct in that it did not have a
rigid form. When attempts were made to move the unit it lost tension in the
wire support and frequently collapsed.

The sheer logistics of moving a thousand advanced trees around such a large
and rambling site proved daunting and took some twenty percent longer to
accomplish than originally projected.

The main error in estimates occurred again with the Sphagnum. The increase
in weight experienced in development was not matched or even approximated in
terms of volume and the initial allowance had to be quadrupled to
accommodate the total number of units.