Second update about work and more info about the flightline building . . . I’ll share my first encounter with the Everett Delivery Center - EDC - later, for now lets just get to the facts. It’s by far the newest thing anywhere on the Boeing campus by a LONG shot. The old Everett Delivery Center (EDC) was built in the 1960’s, and even after it’s renovation in 2006, it was still more factory style than anything else. That was why if any of our customers wanted to do more than just pick up their plane and go, they would have any celebrations over at the Future of Flight Museum, which is nearby and much nicer. That is until they redid the EDC and reopened it in April of 2013 with the idea in mind that it would serve both employees and customers alike. The old one was only 60,000 square feet while this one is 180,000 square feet. Its also now three stories high, can accommodate about 600 workers, deliver three aircraft simultaneously and has bridges just like at regular commercial sized airports. The exterior is made with over 27,000 square feet of glass, and gives you full view of the flightline and the sunset behind it. On the main floor is a cafeteria, mini Employee Service Center and Human Resource Service Center (mini compared to those in the factory), another Boeing Store and a 24 hour Tully’s. The cafeteria is right alongside one of the two curvatures in the building, so when a plane is docked there you’re staring right at it. The second floor is all about the customers, and if you can imagine what something geared towards a clientele that spends millions of dollars is like, then that’s what you should picture here. Including a customer lounge, 20+ conference rooms, 35 offices for on-site delivery teams and resident customers, and a “customer event area”, which is the circular area in-between the two curves in the building. It’s like a mini ballroom except half of it is glass, facing the flightline and the Olympic Mountains behind it. The third floor apparently is for the EDC personnel, which would be me, but I’ve yet to go up to the third floor :-) the bottom one is impressive enough. All in all, its one swanky building, thats for sure! Ive included pictures, none of which I took myself.
Posted on: Fri, 03 Oct 2014 18:07:22 +0000
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