Congratulations to our client Colonel Smith Middle School. They have been honored in School Planning and Management magazine as a grand prize winner of the 2013 Educational Design Showcase. Our Energy Efficiency Education Dashboard is included in their curriculum to keep the students informed on the sustainable practices in place at this school.
Archives for 2013
Video Development and LCD Video Cards for IP Pathways
Contact:
Sarah Erdman, Marketing Director
515.965.3403
serdman (at) www.qagraphics.com
July 8, 2013
QA Graphics, Iowa interactive design company, is pleased to announce that they have developed two different marketing videos for IP Pathways, Leading the Data Center Revolution®.
IP Pathways provides solutions that help customers modernize their data center infrastructures through virtualization; embracing mobility by delivering desktops, applications, and data to any device, anywhere and at any time; optimizing Microsoft applications such as MS Exchange and Lync; protecting data and implementing business continuity strategies. The company looked to QA Graphics for a creative way to share their message with potential clients.
“IP Pathways is expanding our reach into Kansas, Missouri, and Nebraska and also has launched a national healthcare practice. As we expand and grow, we need new and effective ways to help potential customers learn about what we do and what makes us different; video provides us that,” said IP Pathways’ Co-Founder and EVP, Wade Brower. “We do things very differently than many of our competitors and are always looking for ways to set ourselves apart. The video campaigns created by QA Graphics are unique; they do a great job of telling our story and allow us to connect with potential customers quickly and in a way that is different than our competitors.”
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White Papers Published on ASHRAE.org
Photo-Realistic Graphics are the Future for BAS
It’s a visual age; where even when watching TV we want to be immersed in our movies or feel like we’re sitting in the front row at the football game. As graphics capabilities evolve, we expect the same in the building automation world. As a control system graphic designer at QA Graphics, I’ve personally seen this trend take shape. Symbol libraries and stock images used within the industry have significantly advanced. QA Graphics has led many of these trends, driving the industry to higher graphics standards. They created custom symbol libraries for six of the largest control manufacturers, most recently having provided 3D image creation and super templates for Johnson Controls Inc.’s Metasys® Graphics+ graphics package and the 3D graphic library for Tridium’s Niagara AX Framework®.
Visualization
As the building automation industry evolves, building performance data and other information continues to become more visual and more accessible. QA Graphics has been a leader in making building concepts more visual, from BAS graphics, high-end equipment models and animations, to energy dashboards. Having provided design services for the building automation industry for over a decade now, we’re proud to be at the forefront of these industry changes. Graphics and user interfaces can make a variety of building information available via desktop, mobile, and other platforms to easily access data, help the decision process and make day to day functions easier. QA Graphics isn’t directly involved in managing systems or monitoring data, but can provide graphics or interfaces that can serve as a central resource that allow users to access information in way that’s quick and easy to understand. Information can be presented in a variety of ways; it really just depends on what information you want to make available and who the end user is.
QA Graphics Creates Sustainable Building Dashboard for Hy-Vee, Inc.
Contact:
Sarah Erdman, Marketing Director
515.965.3403
serdman (at) www.qagraphics.com
June 18, 2013
QA Graphics, an Iowa interactive design firm, is pleased to announce that they are developing interactive displays for Hy-Vee, Inc., to help educate their consumers about the supermarket’s sustainable initiatives.
Hy-Vee is an employee-owned corporation operating 233 supermarket stores in eight Midwestern states. The corporation has been taking a number of steps to make its stores and operations more environmentally friendly, and has looked to QA Graphics for a creative way within the stores to illustrate these sustainable initiatives. QA Graphics has developed the Sustainable Building Dashboard, which is an interactive application used to educate about sustainability. The dashboard is planned to be incorporated at all of Hy-Vee’s new store locations. The first store it has been implemented at is the Hy-Vee in Urbandale, Iowa. The dashboard is displayed on a 42-inch touchscreen near the store entrance, allowing customers to learn more about the store’s sustainable features. The Urbandale store has been designed and built to LEED standards, although it has yet to be formally scored.
QA Graphics Develops Custom System Graphics for Everest Energy & Control Technologies, LLC
Contact:
Sarah Erdman, Marketing Director
515.965.3403
serdman (at) www.qagraphics.com
June 17, 2013
QA Graphics, leading provider of HVAC graphic design solutions, is pleased to announce that they are providing system graphic development services for Everest Energy & Control Technologies, LLC.
Everest Energy & Control Technologies, LLC is a controls contracting and building automation services company serving Chicago and northern Illinois, providing turnkey design, engineering, installation and programming for HVAC and lighting control systems. The company provides easy to use open Web Based control systems using the Tridium NiagaraAX Framework. Everest was purchased and restructured in 2012. Everest wanted to offer their clients better visuals, knowing that it would help differentiate them in the market. Not having an in-house graphics team, the company looked to QA Graphics for system graphics that would stand out from the competition.