It takes an army to turn convention centre into HQ for TED Talks 'community'

It takes an army to build the TED Talks community inside the Vancouver Convention Centre.
The elaborate main theatre alone requires a crew of 225 — framers and finishing carpenters drawn from across the province — to assemble the “pop-up” structure of 8,000 Douglas-fir-timber components, a process that takes 154 hours, “give or take.”
“It’s a pretty crazy schedule, but it seems to happen every year somehow,” said Patrick Wallain, the Vancouve