Location, Location and Location

DESIGN YOUR OWN FACTORY Location, Location and Location

Your brief You are in charge of a large industrial company and want to build a new factory which will make your main product. Your job is to design the factory before it is built so that you will have a good idea of A] what it will look like and B)] what it will need in order to be successful.

Complete this sheet first to support your thinking up ideas - go through the 10 questions listed below and record your answers in the spaces provided. When you have finished, you should have a much clearer idea of what your factory will be like.

You can then start to design your factory but make sure that your factory design: A) ties in with your answers and B) is fully labelled to explain your choices.

Thanks to Steve Gibbons, Sandbach School, Cheshire and made available through www.sln.org.uk/geography DESIGN YOUR OWN FACTORY Location, Location and Location QUESTION 1 What is your factory going to make (ie what is the product) ?{write your answer in the space provided}

QUESTION 2 What is going to be the name of your factory ? {write your answer in the space provided}

QUESTION 3 Town or city Edge of A science Motorwayjunc Other(please Where would you like to centre townor city park or tion specify) build your factory ? business park {circle the best answer(s)}

QUESTION 4 What is your factory going to need as its RAW MATERIALS ?{try to think of as many examples as possible}

QUESTION 5 Truck Train Ship Plane Other(please How are you going to TRANSPORT these specify) RAW MATERIALS to your factory ?{circle the best answer(s)}

Thanks to Steve Gibbons, Sandbach School, Cheshire and made available through www.sln.org.uk/geography DESIGN YOUR OWN FACTORY Location, Location and Location QUESTION 6 By pylon from Generate How are you going to get the POWER your alocal your own factory will need ? powerstation (explain how) {circle the best answer(s)}

QUESTION 7 Manual Managerial Administration Securitystaff Others(please How many WORKERS are you workers staff staff specify) going to need ? {write approximate numbers in the different boxes}

QUESTION 8 A local townor Somewhere Where is the MARKET for your city else (describe finished product ?{circle the best answer(s)} where)

QUESTION 9 Truck Train Ship Plane Other(please How are you going to TRANSPORT your specify) finished product to your MARKET ? {circle the best answer(s)}

QUESTION 10 In what ways will your factory damage the environment ? {make notes in the space provided}

Thanks to Steve Gibbons, Sandbach School, Cheshire and made available through www.sln.org.uk/geography