Thursday 9 September 2010

SPECIFIERS SAVE HOURS WITH KNAUF DRYWALL’S ONLINE SELECTOR

Innovative and handy online tools help to make Knauf Drywall the specifier’s number one choice for internal walling – from Web site to building site.

The latest addition to Knauf Drywall’s award-winning Online Manual (www.knaufdrywall.co.uk/themanual) is the novel Partition Selector tool. This innovation helps specifiers by instantly picking the best partitions for their needs, from the simplest to the most complex. Then it saves them hours of work by writing a full specification for the job in seconds.

Users simply enter the performance criteria that they require. Drawing from Knauf Drywall’s extensive range of plasterboards and related dry-lining systems, the Partition Selector provides the optimum solutions for the application.

The Knauf Drywall Partition Selector allows users to develop and store all the partitions needed within a project – including specialist systems such as Shaftwall.

Knauf Drywall Marketing Communications Manager Bob Stark says: “The best bit is how the tool writes a comprehensive specification document of the entire project for you. This completely removes all the donkey work associated with the task.

“In addition, you know the best partition for the job has been chosen automatically. You can also value-engineer the project further by specifying that only certain boards or studs are used.

“Dry-walling is now the norm for most types of buildings and we have a wide range of specialist products to suit the needs of various sectors. The Partition Selector, developed with input from some of our major clients, is designed to help specifiers find the right system quickly – without having to make lengthy comparisons of technical data.

“We are using the technology to take the effort out of specifying partitions – and writing the specification automatically is a real time-saver.”

The Partition Selector works in conjunction with the other leading-edge tool in Knauf Drywall’s online manual. This instantly creates a bespoke Operations and Maintenance Manual containing details of each Knauf Drywall product and system to be used in a project, with health and safety and other relevant information as required. The manual is in convenient pdf-format – easily printed or saved to disk.