[COM] 52-66 King William Street | 65m | 15 Levels | Southern Cross Arcade

[abc]

all smart technology does is make life more complicated than it needs to be

[Ursus Maritimus]

To the building managers' credit and Schindler's credit, the issues have been pretty much resolved.

They set up a TV screen near the lifts, playing a tutorial on loop about how to use smart lifts (sounds ridiculous, I know. It says things like make sure every passenger requests a lift, but only one request per passenger). More lifts seem to be active during peak times than before, and Schindler probably did some reprogramming in the back end.

The long waits, breakdowns, and stopping to pick up people when it's already full, have seemingly disappeared.

[shiftaling]

...and the air conditioning maintains an absolutely perfect temperature no matter what's happening outside - no hot or cold spots or moments.

How's that one working out?

[prometheus2704]

Random thought from when I was walking through the mall just after the shops had closed and needed a toilet... Wasn't part of the deal with this site getting the old public bathrooms for their building that they had to provide new publicly accessible bathrooms?

The bathrooms they've built in the arcade are only accessible when the building itself is publicly accessible during core business hours...

[SRW]

Random thought from when I was walking through the mall just after the shops had closed and needed a toilet... Wasn't part of the deal with this site getting the old public bathrooms for their building that they had to provide new publicly accessible bathrooms?

The bathrooms they've built in the arcade are only accessible when the building itself is publicly accessible during core business hours...

I don't think it was a requirement for the new building, more a justification for the council to remove community title and sell the land. IIRC, it was always expected that they would be restricted to opening hours which was a significant downside.