 What is the Great Escapade?
It's a nine to fourteen day bike riding holiday full of fun, friends and adventure ...Since 1984, each November, the Great Victorian Bike Ride is held in a different part of Victoria. In the same way, Bicycle Victoria organises an annual Ride in late Summer to Autumn, outside of Victoria. 2009 was Western Australia's turn with the event starting in Margaret River and making it's way through the south-west to finish again at the place where it all started. (visit www.bv.com.au for more information) The ChallengeBicycle Victoria required toilet and shower facilities for approximately 2500 cyclists and support crew over the 9 day event, with the event moving daily. Issues that had to be considered were, Fresh water supply to run all facilities at each regional location with many locations requiring water to be brought in by tanker Waste removal for all black and grey water at each location and it's disposal Power supply for all the equipment onsite Setup, Pack-down and movement of equipment daily Timing issues for relocation of equipment throughout the night ready for cyclists at the new location the following day
The SolutionInstant Toilets & Showers provided Bicycle Victoria with a solution to their events needs which consisted of a combination of existing products as well as the introduction of one new product to our hire fleet. Our solution consisted of, 4x Five Star Streamline toilet blocks (64 toilet cubicles in total) 4x Five Star Super twelve shower units (48 shower cubicles in total) 20x Five Star event chemical toilets
To facilitate the requirements of Bicycle Victoria the event required a large amount of resources in man-power and logistics to ensure that the equipment operated efficiently under any site conditions we were to encounter and to simply ensure that all equipment was onsite at the correct times ready for operation. Our transport fleet for the event consisted of, A Success
Thanks to the assistance from the event organisers and careful planning by all those at Instant Toilets & Showers, our part in this event was a huge success. Providing clean, high quality portable sanitation products is always our aim and we feel that we achieved this on this event. Thankyou to the riders and event staff for your positive feedback on our products. Some interesting statistics...
Toilet paper - 1764 packets of toilet paper consumed during the event Black Water Waste - approximately 160,000 litres of black water waste produced Grey Water Waste - approximately 332,500 litres of grey water waste produced An average of 210 people per hour serviced by our shower units |
