Trade Talk: Giving the Right Feedback Saves Time and Trouble
By Simon Buddle, Future Ready Homes. Feedback takes many forms, from the HR (Human Resources) interview or personal appraisal (urgh – not my cup of tea), to the nostalgic car driver who loves the feedback they get from the road through the steering wheel of a old car. The feedback one gets, in this instance, […]
Case Study: KNX Caters for All at Connaught Place
By Neil Grant, The Harris Grant Group of Companies. Located in Central London, Five and Six Connaught Place were merged by residential property developer Redrow Homes London into a development of five lateral and two duplex apartments. With a value of the order of GBP£100 million, the apartments are situated in an area of classic […]
Perspective: Women in the KNX Workplace
By Nikita Thompson, Hughes Electra Limited. To see a building be transformed from nothing into a fully-controllable apartment and thinking ‘I was involved in making that happen’ is really rewarding. This industry provides fantastic opportunities for women, but as a female professional in the world of construction and engineering, we are in the minority. According […]
Trade Talk: The Effect of ETS Inside on the Smart Home Market
By Simon Buddle, Future Ready Homes. My dad has long since retired, but during his working life – all of it – he drove lorries. He drove them to Scotland, London, Spain, Iraq and just about every other place in between. In the school holidays, I’d often go with him. We’d take fruit and vegetables […]
Interview: Sam Pound-Jones, Ivory Egg
Ivory Egg was founded in 2005 as the first dedicated, UK-based, KNX supplier and training centre. Since then, the company has expanded across multiple territories, including the UK, Australia and New Zealand. Sam Pound-Jones joined in 2014. With a background in systems integration and financial sales, he spent the first 7 months as an account […]
Trade Talk: Getting Involved with Heating Plant – is it any of our business?
By Simon Buddle, Future Ready Homes. It is once more the turning of the season’s tides. The long grey is finally giving up and the days are, at last, beginning to brighten and lengthen. And with it comes the day-by-day rise in ambient air temperature, solar gain and sudden and often dramatic temperature drops late […]
Tips: Blind Control
By Mark Warburton, Ivory Egg. The change of seasons is a timely reminder of how much the external environment impacts on the internal spaces we live and work. It could be returning home to a dark house because the days are shorter, the sudden return of glare on your computer screen or the joy of […]
Hands On: Retrofitting a Home with KNX
By Paul Foulkes, EchoHouse Energy. Just before Christmas in 2015, the family and I moved house. The building we purchased required a lot of work – we knew this from the beginning, but it had a great ‘footprint’ and would become a wonderful home. The need for this work gave me an ideal opportunity to […]
Show Report: KNX at ISE – Visualisation and Voice Control Make Waves
By Simon Buddle, Future Ready Homes. Another ISE and another bumper year. The RAI Conference Centre is now officially full, with a large marquee erected in the central square to accommodate the overspill. Next year, they say, they’ll be filling the front car park space with marquees. The event is now, effectively, a week-long event. […]
Overview: Voice Control is Making Consumers Think
By Mark Warburton, Ivory Egg. Once again ISE has exceeded expectations with a huge jump in visitor numbers and exhibitors. One of the big themes across the show and also at the Smart Building Conference on the Monday, was voice control. Whilst the rapid roll-out and marketing hype around voice control does lead one to […]