External Louvres help cut back on Air Conditioning Costs

In this day and age, in which the newspapers carry a new story on the prevalence of cancer almost daily, we are very aware of the need to wear sunscreen, especially in summer between the hours of 11am and 3pm. We are less aware, meanwhile of the need to screen the buildings we reside in from the sun – though there is a whole range of brise soleil specially adapted to this purpose. And, while buildings are evidently not at risk from cancer, they should be causes of concern: careful upkeep of our buildings exteriors can help keep the insides running well. Energy efficiency, for example, can be greatly enhanced by controlling external factors such as heat and light. A building that uses glass louvres will normally require less internal heating and use of non-renewable fuel. And buildings with external louvres can act simultaneously as blinds and as air vents for the intake and discharge of cool or hot air. The latter, in hot climes or seasonal temperature highs, will perform much the same function as an air conditioning system – only at a much lower long term cost.

External louvres come in many shapes and sizes and can even be custom-designed and fitted to suit particular buildings. This is because their fabricators are sympathetic towards the hugely divergent styles of architecture around these days, but are also knowledgeable of their common demands when it comes to temperature regulation. To give an idea of what external louvres look like, it might help to imagine a heavy slatted blind or a set of narrowly overlapping sails. Given their installation outside, these sun-shading devices are always weather resistant with minimal maintenance required after their installation. This might be welcome news if the façade of your building presently looks shabby or is in constant need of repainting due to weather-related cracks and peels; external louvres will protect whatever lies underneath them, behaving much like defensive shields.

Glass louvres are more modernist in appearance: think of the Louvre of the Parisian art gallery and you’ll have a good idea of their style. Clearly, some more conservative home and building freeholders will not want these sorts of structures in their midst. But, given suitable space such as a courtyard or green space, these louvres can absolutely come into their own. Brise soleil perhaps tread a middle ground: more conspicuous than external louvres they are useful in the creation of walkways between buildings, jutting out like awnings from the wall.

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Presentation Creation Without The Notes…

Powerpoint presentations have become an expected element of any pitch, such that presentation creation is usually viewed as lacking if they don’t have a set of slides accompanying them. The problem with this is that the tail ends up wagging the dog; Powerpoint is basic to use but difficult to master, and the outcome is almost inevitably a sub-standard presentation that props up a talk without giving much to it. If you are going to do Powerpoint, it is worth doing properly since a poor slide-show comes across as amateur – obviously something to be avoided. However, slick Powerpoint design doesn’t just captivate the audience visually. It can also help you to deliver an excellent talk – without notes and the normal paraphernalia of such events.

Once upon a time, ancient orators trained in the art of rhetoric would use a series of mnemonics to help them to recall the consecutive arguments of a speech, thereby enabling them to avoid using notes in their addresses. A common device was to use points along a journey or features of a familiar building, which they would mentally link to ideas they were speaking about. Today we rely on cue cards or even read straightforwardly from a sheet – something that can lead to a halting and uninspiring delivery. Nowadays, politicians and other professional speakers often garner praise for their ability to speak for a lengthy period without notes.

Good presentation creation should enable you to do the same. sales presentations can be long, and faltering makes you look bad and reduces confidence in you and your ideas. However, by treating each slide as a mnemonic or summary of what you want to say, you can avoid the problem of leafing through a sheaf of notes or load of cue-cards. An ostensibly off-the-cuff presentation is far more impressive and professional-looking than one that rests on such paperwork – which makes you look like you aren’t familiar with your own pitch. Start to look at your presentation creation as a way to facilitate your own delivery and complement your speeches, rather than being additions that have been stuck on at the end as an afterthought because that is what audiences expect nowadays. You’ll find that it’s easier than you think, and your listeners will appreciate the extra effort you put in and the veneer it gives the event.

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