HTA CEO Josh Christian connects trades by way of initiatives and thought management at KBIS and IBS 2023 throughout Design & Building Week
Santa Monica, CA (January 23, 2023) – The Dwelling Know-how Affiliation (HTA)—the go-to useful resource for essentially the most certified {and professional} house expertise integrators—has made nice progress with ongoing initiatives that join the house expertise {industry} and the architect/designer/builder communities to mutual profit. HTA CEO Josh Christian will additional these initiatives as an teacher, moderator, and residential expertise {industry} ambassador throughout 2023 Design and Building Week (DCW), which includes the NAHB Worldwide Builders’ Present® (IBS) and the NKBA Kitchen & Tub Trade Present® (KBIS), January 31–February 2 in Las Vegas.
“On the HTA, we’ve got been serving to certified expertise integrators and design/construct professionals join for a few years, most not too long ago by launching our new HTA Design Companions program, knowledgeable designation that identifies design-centric house expertise integrators as a service to architects, inside designers, builders, and finish customers,” says Christian. “We’ll proceed to beat the drum and shut the hole between industries with HTA’s presence at IBS and KBIS. The alignment between HTA and each NAHB and NKBA is robust, serving to all channels create extra alternatives and extra profitable high-tech-home outcomes.”
Christian will conduct courses and communicate on a number of panels throughout KBIS and IBS over the course of Design & Building Week, together with:
KBIS – Ok&B Specialty Coaching, Voices from the Trade Convention: “The Know-how Integrator – a Key Workforce Member for Designers” Wednesday, 2/1, 3:45-5:45 PM, N-254
Description: Owners more and more demand extra expertise of their houses for security, comfort, leisure, and life-style. Managing the house’s expertise methods has traditionally been a problem for designers. As new applied sciences emerge, the challenges are rising as a result of potential aesthetic impression in your design, and the way expertise methods might have an effect on different subcontractors. What expertise methods can be found now? When in your design course of do the expertise necessities have to be decided? Who ought to set up and repair the expertise methods? This course will reply all of the above and supply instruments that may reduce technology-related complications and as an alternative improve your mission’s aesthetics whereas including smiles of satisfaction. Register:
IBS, “Two-Story Discuss: Builder Necessities for Dwelling Tech Planning & Merchandise” Thursday, 2/2, 10:00-11:00 AM, W-232
Description: Consumers more and more demand extra tech of their houses, however builders are struggling to seek out the candy spot in relation to their position in educating, promoting, and delivering it. This session will study each side of the house tech coin—learn how to plan for its inclusion and what merchandise are most in demand—in order that precisely when to be concerned, what to supply, and learn how to reduce complications for your online business whereas maximizing consumer satisfaction. First, discover ways to decide your purchaser’s house tech wants (and obtain a ‘cheat sheet’ of system choices you need to use), when within the construct course of expertise necessities have to be thought-about, and who ought to set up. Then, we’ll flip our consideration to the applied sciences themselves with a room-by-room house walk-through highlighting the varied merchandise/methods out there and that are most in demand.
Josh will speak with specialists Dan Ross, Managing Accomplice of Responsive Residing (previously with Savant), and Kris Barber, Director of Building at Blue Heron. Register: https://vnext-admin.buildersshow.com/Search/EducationSession.aspx?id=2258407
IBS, “How Customized Builders Can Meet Their Purchasers’ Know-how Wants” Thursday, 2/2, 12:30-1:00 PM, W-209
Description: Owners more and more need extra expertise for security, comfort, and leisure of their customized houses. But, managing the house’s expertise methods is a problem for customized builders as expertise often impacts different subcontractors. Learn to choose the fitting house expertise installer on your wants, obtain a template that may help you and your purchasers in deciding on expertise choices, see a simple on-line software for budgeting, and extra. Register: https://www.buildersshow.com/Search/SpecialEvent.aspx?id=61670
Throughout Design and Building Week, HTA can also be excited to attach and assist Dwelling Know-how Affiliation Supporting Manufacturers which can be exhibiting at IBS 2023, together with Entry Networks (SnapOne, sales space W2467), Ring (W2800), Sonos (W2577), and Savant (W2164). Many HTA Licensed integration corporations may also be current on the KBIS present flooring, together with Integration Controls’ Jamie Briesemeister, who will take part in a KBIS NEXT Stage panel “Designing for Quick-Time period Leases” on 2/1, 2-2:45 PM on the North Corridor Sales space N169. KBIS attendees can join the panel right here: https://kbis.com/convention/kbisnext-stage-2.
“Dwelling expertise producers and integrators being current at this present means rather a lot, and is an indication that the inroads we’ve got made into the constructing {industry} are beginning to come to fruition,” provides Christian. “Everybody within the house expertise {industry} advantages, together with the producers, expertise integrators, associations, and repair suppliers.”
For extra data on HTA’s new Design and Commerce Accomplice Packages go to: https://htacertified.org/app/media/home-technology-association-launches-HTA-Design-Accomplice-program/.
To develop into an HTA Licensed house expertise skilled, go to htacertified.org/apply.
Concerning the Dwelling Know-how Affiliation
The Dwelling Know-how Affiliation (HTA) created the primary and solely commonplace of excellence for house expertise integration corporations. The HTA offers the best-qualified expertise integrators a prestigious certification to distinguish these distinctive corporations. HTA Certification is a badge of high quality, designed to assist householders get constantly first-rate expertise experiences. Owners, builders, architects, and inside designers that rent HTA Licensed integrators have peace of thoughts figuring out they’re working with actually skilled corporations which have handed the HTA’s rigorous certification course of, which focuses on technical competency, first-rate customer support, aftercare assist, and a optimistic enterprise repute.
The Dwelling Know-how Affiliation can also be the creator of the HTA Design Accomplice and HTA Know-how Accomplice packages designed to raise the position of certified house expertise integrators as expertise design consultants that commerce companions ought to embody on all of their residential tasks. As well as, the Dwelling Know-how Affiliation actively collaborates with design and construct commerce associations equivalent to AIBD, ASID, IDS, NAHB, NARI, and the NKBA. The HTA helps bridge the design and collaboration hole between the house expertise integration {industry} and design and construct professionals. That is achieved by way of academic articles, webinars, courses, budgeting instruments, expertise evaluation types, a model Useful resource Information, and an integrator finder software to assist them incorporate expertise into their tasks simpler. Be taught extra by visiting HTACertified.org and by following the Dwelling Know-how Affiliation (HTA) on LinkedIn, Twitter, Fb, Instagram, YouTube & Pinterest.
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