| Description | The file contains correspondence and enclosures, meeting notes and file notes. The correspondence is mainly between Denys Lasdun Redhouse and Softley and various contractors and deals with equipment and building defects, and problems with the speed and quality of contractors' work. Specific subjects include Tele-Stage Associates Ltd's claim; the stage floor of the Lower Theatre; outstanding items of work by sub-contractors including Hall Stage Equipment Ltd and Tele-Stage Associates Ltd; lack of equipment maintenance manuals; cracks in structural concrete, testing of and remedial work on the drum revolve stage and other problems; a misleading advert by Hall Stage Equipment Ltd; Pye Business Communications Ltd invoices; responsibility for approval of designs, additional work necessary; the need for progress reports on contractors and gathering information for them; Tele-Stage Associates Ltd's claim for the Lyttelton elevators; extension of Hall Stage Equipment Ltd's contract; Lyttelton rear wagon installation; the commissioning of an independent assessment of the maintenance needs of the building; equipment testing; floodlighting; a replacement revolve wagon; withholding of payments; problems with Mole-Richardson (Stage & Studio Engineering) Ltd; masking screens; and overspending on the technical stage wiring installation. Correspondents include Theatre Projects Consultants Ltd, Denys Lasdun Redhouse and Softley (and Denys Lasdun & Partners), Vigers Stevens and Adams, Crown House Engineering Ltd, Sir Robert McAlpine & Sons Ltd, Mole-Richardson (Stage & Studio Engineering) Ltd, Hall Stage Equipment Ltd, Evershed Power Optics Ltd, Light Ltd, the Greater London Council (GLC) and Davis Belfield and Everest. Items include a report 'Failure of the Trampolino Flooring'; a list of Hall Stage Equipment sub-contracts; multiple architect's instructions to Sir Robert McAlpine & Sons Ltd regarding contractors and remedial works; an internal memo listing necessary improvements, details and their costings; and two reports - a report and a further report 'to the South Bank Theatre Board on extensions of time and variations to the Building Contract'. Original card folder disposed of. 'ARCH 2A(10) from Aug 77' was written on the front, and '904~2A from August 4th 1977 National Theatre Architects 10' was written on the spine.
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