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QA Graphics
QA Graphics Wins 2016 Gold Marcom Award
QA Graphics, a leader in the building automation system (BAS) graphic outsourcing industry, is a recipient of a Gold MarCom Award in app for business category for their UX design of the Taco LCI-4 app. MarCom is one of the oldest, largest and most prestigious creative competitions in the world. Winners are selected from over 300 categories in Print, Web, Video and Strategic Communications worldwide.
QA Graphics has over a decade of experience in UX design and BAS graphics. By working with QA Graphics, Taco Solutions gained: An application with an improved user experience that embraces Taco’s brand standards, a highly-detailed graphics symbol library that depicts Taco’s equipment, and savings in time and money.
MarCom Awards recognizes outstanding achievement by creative professionals involved in the concept, direction, design, and production of marketing and communication materials and programs. Six thousand plus entries come from corporate marketing and communication departments, advertising agencies, PR firms, design shops, production companies and freelancers. Judges are industry professionals who look for companies and individuals whose talent exceeds a high standard of excellence and whose work serves as a benchmark for the industry.
The post-production of this project also provided Taco Comfort Solution’s engineers the ability to refocus their limited time on product functionality, allowing for an overall faster launch for LCI-4. “With consumer-facing products and graphics rapidly advancing in the HVAC industry,” said Dan McCarty, owner, and president of QA Graphics, “we are excited to help companies make that shift to a more premier looking product easier.”
To download a copy of the case study written, visit: https://www.qagraphics.com/taco_case_study/
A list of Platinum and Gold Winners can be found on the MarCom Awards website at www.marcomawards.com.
About QA Graphics – QA Graphics is a leader in the building automation and green building industries. The company specializes in HVAC graphic development services, system graphics, floor plan graphics, and Energy Efficiency Education Dashboards™ (EEEDs). Since 2006, QA Graphics has served as an expert design resource for the building controls industry and is able to provide BAS graphics for any type of building automation. The company also provides marketing solutions such as interactive applications, 3D design and animation, UX design, videos, and more. Visit www.qagraphics.com to learn more.
MarCom Awards
Sponsored and judged by the Association of Marketing and Communication Professionals (AMCP), a 22-year-old international organization consisting of several thousand creative professionals. As part of its mission, AMCP fosters and supports the efforts of creative professionals who contribute their unique talents to public service and community organizations. Over the past few years, AMCP has given over $200,000 in charitable contributions.
About Taco Comfort Solutions – Taco Comfort Solutions is a third generation, family owned, American manufacturer of high quality, high efficiency heating, cooling, plumbing, and irrigation products. Headquartered in Cranston, RI, Taco is global in scope with manufacturing facilities in Rhode Island, Massachusetts, Arkansas, Ontario, Vietnam, and Italy. Its skilled employees produce precision pumps, valves and controls, air-dirt separators, heat exchangers, tanks, domestic hot water recirculation systems, and web-based building management controls. Visit www.taco-hvac.com to learn more.
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QA Graphics to Debut Symbol Library at AHR Expo in January
QA Graphics serves as an expert design resource for the building controls industry and can provide graphics for any type of building automation system (BAS). Collaborating with several leading control system manufacturers and private companies over the years, QA Graphics has used this experience to develop their new BAS Symbol Library v5 with state of the art 3D software and rendering styles. This library will be debuted at the AHR Expo in Las Vegas January 30th through February 1st, booth 1489.
This library offers a competitive advantage in the BAS industry, delivering more appealing and realistic graphics than typically provided with BAS software. The Symbol Library v5 is powerful and includes over 450 total graphic files available, more detailed graphics, and higher resolution images. Giving users access to high-end graphics and animations that more realistically represent the mechanical systems in place.
The Symbol Library v5 includes a variety of graphics and animations needed to construct building automation system graphics and HVAC graphics or MEP equipment. Almost any system graphic can be created, static or animated graphics, as QA Graphics symbol library is compatible with more than 95% of all major mechanical systems. Our custom designed graphics and 3D animations symbols include boilers, chillers, dampers, filters, piping, fans, cooling towers, generators, valves, ductwork, coils and more. Several newer categories have been added to offer graphics for:
- Fire, lighting, lab and security system graphics
- More LEDs and UI elements
Our custom symbol library also offers a variety of features, such as:
- More than 350 static graphics with over 100 animations in orthographic view
- Your 3-letter acronym on major equipment components displaying a watermark on major equipment components to protect the graphics (watermark can be visible or undetectable)
- Represent mechanical control drawings in a schematic, graphical view
- Multiple duct lengths
- Pre-assembled damper configurations
- Symbol for energy efficient equipment
- Preconfigured terminal air units
Visit QA Graphics website to learn more at: https://www.qagraphics.com/system-graphics/
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QA Graphics has More Offerings on Floor Plan Standards
QA Graphics has become a fixture in the BAS industry while providing customers professional, premium floor plans for over the last ten years. End products are created using existing AutoCAD files, PDF’s, and sketches resulting in customized 2D and 3D floor plan graphics. In the interest of maintaining best practices while continuing to offer high quality renders, QA Graphics announces upgrades to their floor plan standards.
These improvements include the addition of items such as doors, elevators, stairs, and curtain walls, as well as being lighter in appearance and a new viewing angle. These product offerings are in addition to the building detail options of zoning with duct work, windows, built-ins, railings, and furnishings.
Other service in this area offered are:
- Site Maps
- 3D Site Renderings
- Interior Renderings
- Exterior Renderings
- Floor plan navigation graphics
About QA Graphics – QA Graphics is a leader in the building automation and green building industries. The company specializes in HVAC graphic development services, system graphics, floor plan graphics, and Energy Efficiency Education Dashboards™ (EEEDs). Since 2006, QA Graphics has served as an expert design resource for the building controls industry and is able to provide BAS graphics for any type of building automation. The company also provides marketing solutions such as interactive applications, 3D design and animation, UX design, videos, and more. Visit https://www.qagraphics.com to learn more.
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TDIndustries Case Study
Download the PDF version here.
Executive Summary
This report was commissioned to study how QA Graphics worked with TDIndustries to boost the look and feel of their graphics for floor plans.
TD worked with QA Graphics to upgrade their floor plans and system graphics to a higher level that the industry demanded.
By working on their application with QA Graphics, TD gained:
- Floor plans with an updated feel and layers of detail that was needed
- Highly detailed system graphics that depicts the equipment needed
- Savings in time and money
About TDIndustries
Established in 1946 in downtown Dallas, TDIndustries delivers a comprehensive approach to Facility Services and Mechanical Construction.
For 70 years, TDIndustries has delivered innovative design and high performance of world-class engineered systems which serve healthcare facilities, hotels, schools, mission critical, and industrial complexes. Developing into one of America’s premier mechanical construction and facility service companies, TD is changing the face of the industry through sustainable, state-of-the-art innovations that are a result of first class customer service.
TD has a tremendous core competency in project management of any size due to the unmatched, powerful company resources including: employees, processes, technology and manufacturing expertise. Emphasis on employees and culture, TD partners with clients across the entire life-cycle of a facility from engineering and construction to operations and maintenance. Our corporate culture is based upon the Servant Leader philosophy, which means we do everything alongside our customer.
Challenges
When creating floor plans, TDIndustries previously utilized graphics symbols that came standard with the purchase of Tridium products. Such use of these graphics worked well in its target market. The product’s functionality received passing grades from end users, but outdated aesthetics in regard to look and feel did not meet or exceed the expectations of TD and their customers.
Missing a more rich and dynamic feel for the renders of the building space, TD knew that they needed something more engaging but lacked the in-house capabilities to make their desires a reality. Images often presented themselves as mediocre in quality; while lacking the exact graphical representation TD desired to portray. Customer expectations were on the rise due to a rapidly growing market; while demand for advanced 3D images was becoming front and center.
“Once we searched for 3D HVAC images and saw what QA Graphics had to offer, we knew our graphics were basic and becoming outdated,” said Mike Ohlenburger.
How QA Graphics Helped
TDIndustries utilized QA Graphics’ website to assess how QA Graphics expertise and product offerings could enhance their floor plan graphics. The company chose to work with QA Graphics in efforts to bring their HVAC and floor plan graphics up to speed while competing against the industries best.
Floor Plan
QA Graphics’ CAD Drafters bring a building to life by creating professional, premium floor plan and site plan designs that meet your building specifications, budget, and timeline. Once project specs were set for TD’s vision in what way they requested, QA Graphics drafters went to work on creating detailed floor plans depicting the higher level of detail that TD wanted to portray with their graphics.
QA Graphics created several layers of floor plans to accommodate the varying needs of TD. Varying layers for HVAC , piping, lighting, elevator graphics, animation for security doors, and domestic and hydronic water systems were created. This gave TD Industries the professional look and feel that they were missing out on before to provide to their client. Allowing the team to easily view locations of the varying systems with ease.
TDIndustries provided QA Graphics with Revit files which allowed them to create dynamic renderings of the building’s interior by showcasing material textures, HVAC systems. Combined together this provided TDIndustries with a higher end photo realistic option to bring the project to the next level.
System Graphics
TD also worked with QA Graphics’ 3D designers and Building Automation System (BAS) specialists to update a majority of their symbol library and mechanical equipment graphics. QA Graphics’ symbol library offers static and animated graphics, including unit ventilators, under floor units, tanks, rooftop units, and more.
QA Graphics’ specialists are experts in the BAS graphics industry and worked with TD to build robust system graphics. QA Graphics created a majority of the 3D graphics needed for their project. Their floor plans now feature superior graphic representations of a user’s system, including dynamic graphics, moving fans, and pumping pumps.
Customer Experience
TD loved the ease of the process as QA Graphics worked through the layers and sent updates through their work place system. The company was able to see how the upgrade in graphics created a modern and updated design. QA Graphics’ designers created TDIndustries’ appealing floor plans and system graphics into a presentation piece that TD is proud to display.
When asked about the process and work of QA Graphics, Ohlenburger said, “I think that QA Graphics work space system, Mavenlink, is a great asset for keeping the client in the know of project status and questions that may arise. The customer service of the team was also friendly, easy to work with, and offered good value.”
Post Production
TDIndustries new floor plan for the construction process feature updated graphics that included mechanical component layers, colored units, piping, domestic/hydronic water systems, and more. The design process required very little work to be done on TD’s part. With QA Graphics timeliness, this solved many previous challenges for TD. Allowing their experts to focus on other parts of the building process and spend less time trying to make the graphics look presentable and professional.
TD’s new look for floor plans on this building project gave them something to be proud of and that they want to display to their client. Featuring up-to-date, highly detailed, and accurate representation of their client’s floor plan and HVAC systems. The graphics for the floor plans featured a variety of layers for various BAS systems onsite and background images that outlaid the locations for piping, lighting, security animations, and other. The updated floor plan graphics are better than what TDIndustries could have created without QA Graphics’ expertise, and the design process was more efficient than their current resources.
“Working with a company that produces a nice product at a professional grade in a timely manner was worth the cost of the project. They also had excellent customer support for whenever we had questions,” said Ohlenburger.
About QA Graphics
QA Graphics is a leader in the building automation and green building industries. The company specializes in HVAC graphic development services, system graphics, floor plan graphics, and Energy Efficiency Education Dashboards™ (EEEDs). The company also provides marketing solutions such as interactive applications, 3D design and animation, UX design, videos, and more.
Since 2006, QA Graphics has provided professional premium site plan design and space planning for commercial properties. Offering a variety of floor plan graphics options to meet your specification, budget, and timeline. Using existing AutoCad files, PDF’s, sketches or specifications sheets, QA Graphics creates customized, photo realistic, 3D and 2D floor plan graphics. From basic to complex design, QA Graphics’ high quality floor plan come with quick turnaround times and technical expertise to include building details such as zoning windows, built-ins, railings, furnishings, and more.
Visit www.qagraphics.com to learn more.
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