Activity

The Sun is constantly flooding the earth with huge amounts of energy. This energy comprises of 4 main bands; UV (ultraviolet), visible light, near infra-red (shortwave) and infra-red (longwave) radiation.

When the suns near infra-red (shortwave) radiation strikes glass (or any object), 3 key things happen:

Some of the sun’s energy is directly t…[Read more]

Every sales person has their own way of doing things but we can always improve. Sharing good practice is what this course is about. For this task we would like you to enter this forum and write a few short sentences about how you start a sales pitch.

What is your experience with sealed glass shading solutions. Have you come across them often? What kind of age have you seen them get too? Was the original customer wrongly sold the unit? We would like to entertain a discussion on our forum about these products to get and share a better understanding of them.

Don’t forget to read other…[Read more]

Give an example of how you typically explain the benefits of Motorisation and sell a motorised shading solution. Don’t forget to comment on others answers.

Other students would benefit from your experience with folding doors or Awnings. Give an example of one of your customers and how you used or could have used the information in the video to sell a better product. Don’t forget to comment on the other students work.

For this task you should find a range of products that you have researched as being sustainable. Explain what evidence you have found and why the product is sustainable.

Don’t forget to comment on other students findings too.

Share the links that you found or that you use here of the colour rendering index and don’t forget to comment on the other students links.

Consider what type of modelling softwares your customers are familiar with. Which ones are the most popular and which ones not so. Are there softwares that the customers use that consider shading in a positive way? Write your answers in the forum as it will be interesting to see your experience and see if there is a pattern. Don’t forget to…[Read more]

Give a few examples of why shading has not been adequately considered. Write your answers in this forum and compare them to other students. You might also want to write roughly what percentage of  building designers use building modelling tools and then how many consider shading in the calculations.  It will be interesting to see if you hall h…[Read more]