Sometimes, it’s a lot more comfortable to stay in your little work bubble and forget about those insidious corporate buzzwords: networking, professional development, training, face time, mission critical, best practices, sustainability. The list goes on and on and on. And certainly, the last thing on your mind is attending a vendor-sponsored function where you’re pretty sure someone will be at your elbow with a sales-pitch while you’re trying to eat a free sandwich.
We Want to Make Your Job Easier
But let me take a minute to give you a little perspective from the other side of the street. As a manufacturer’s rep, we’re always trying to figure out ways to make your life better. We’re not out here trying to figure out a thousand ways to make engineers, contractors, facilities managers and building owners die a death of thousand cuts by equipment shows. We want to show you how commercial hydronic HVAC and engineered plumbing equipment can help make your building occupants comfortable, offer long-term sustainable solutions and even save some operational costs down the line.
So, if our main focus is to help you, it stands to reason that you may benefit from attending mobile training center events where reps and manufacturers can show you new boilers, heaters, pumps, controls systems and the like. You can get your hands on some equipment, possibly see them in action and have a captive audience to ask your burning questions about why a condensing boiler is better than a non-condensing boiler and how that pump ties into your building management system. Makes sense, right?
Reasons to Attend an Equipment Mobile Tour
- Get in front of experts. Day in and day out, you are an expert in what you do. If you are a design engineer, you know how to put building systems together that make sense. If you are a facilities manager, you are a primo troubleshooter. If you’re a contractor, it’s my guess that you can perform a pretty mean install and can get just about anything fixed. You know your stuff. But, let’s drill down a bit. Mobile equipment tours are chock-full of specific equipment experts. And these equipment experts understand how this specific equipment fits into your buildings. They know how this boiler works with that pump. They know that this size of boiler is better for this particular application and that size is better for another application. You can spend some real time with qualified niche experts and ask the hard questions.
- Get some comparisons. Maybe you always, always specify a certain type of boiler. You do that because you know for a fact how that boiler is going to perform. You’ve used that boiler on umpteen thousand other projects and it worked just fine, thankyouverymuch. But here’s your opportunity to find out the pros and cons of other equipment. Maybe it’s better. Maybe it’s not. But here’s your chance to evaluate the true worth of another manufacturer, another brand or a different option for a problem you’ve been trying to solve for a while. And the next time a client asks you for your opinion, you can offer it without hesitation.
- Do some networking. Ahh, the dreaded “networking” word. There may be nothing people hate more than exchanging pleasantries and business cards while simultaneously edging toward the door. But networking doesn’t have to be painful. At a mobile equipment tour, you’ll meet some like-minded people who are attempting to find similar solutions to similar problems. You might link up with a contractor who works on hospitals, just like you. Or you can bump into a facilities manager who has been responsible for equipment just like yours for the last 20 years. He might have a tip or two. It doesn’t have to be a miserable experience and it doesn’t have to be a formal networking event for you to get some value.
These are only a few reasons to attend a mobile equipment tour. But, don't take our word for it. Try it for yourself. You can pre-register to attend an upcoming mobile equipment tour right here in the Carolinas.
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