alllllllllllll OK
they agreed to the move - everything is settled
tonight I will sleep
and yes, Karen, it is just about like building a house, the permits are required, the structural integrity needs to be right, all the firesafety, escape routes, (one part of a wall is basically a poster - if there's a fire the people coming down the stairs can walk/run right through it). we have the power / the water (clean & waste - no toilets
but industrial dishwasher, coffee machines, two full height fridges and special cooling boxes for the catered lunches for about 400 people every day...
and of course it also costs about the same as building a small home - and after 4 days it all gets dismantled again - insane!
so it's very very important for us that as much as possible is dismantled so it can be reused - in china, for example, they build the booth, and at the end of the show they generally come in with hammers and cranes and pull it all down for the skip - such a waste.
and we're just a device manufacturer we have nowhere near the budget capabilities of what pharma companies can do - of course their booths are all show - they have no samples to show - so they often create worlds/scenes/ideas - to attract their customers and collect names. we need to show and demonstrate devices and need space for discussions - so display is backdrop for "stuff".