New office

After moving to our new office at the end of October, some new furniture was purchased to adept to the new surroundings, but still some things remain. As a main thing, we are considering the installation of the air-condition system we had in our old office. The main recent change has been the installation of a door to the TNG offices, and the construction of a common TNG-NOT coffee area.

As the new office in San Antonio is directly accessible from the street, an alarm system from the security company 'Securitas Direct' has been installed to protect the premises.

One major issue has been the termination of the rental contract for our former office. To be diplomatic, the behaviour of the owners has been less than decent, making unreasonable claims and charging us for additional costs without warning. In the end we felt obliged to contract an attorney and the termination of the contract was only settled at the end of last year. There was already an increase in the effective cost of the move to the new office due to the delay in the move from July to October (as the rent for the new office is much lower than for the old office), but the contract settlement and the attorney cost significantly increased the cost even more. It is noted that in the longer-term, the cost to rent and maintain the office will be significantly lower than in the past, though in the near-future there will still be some specific extra expenses related to completely settling in to the new office.