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Dwelle eco living module

Dwelle eco living module Interbuild 2009
bisTrack
Author: Steve Riley
Date: 30 Oct 2009

The dust has settled, the stand packed, the boxes shifted, the M6 tolls paid. Ian and Rich had a mammoth four days at the show, joined at various times by other members of the team, and it's fair to say they were glad it was all over by the end! Quieter than previous years and occupying less space, the show nevertheless claimed 20,000 visitors from home and abroad.

We got through numerous pens, showed some software and kept most of the local student population in boiled sweets.

Did we sell anything? No, but to be fair we never expected to. We were there to raise awareness of Progressive Solutions and bisTrack, and show interested parties what we do. We spent some productive time with existing customers and prospective new people and arranged some more detailed follow-up sessions.

To sum up, for us the show is possibly a bit too diverse, by trying to be 'all things construction', it ends up a little disjointed. Some of the exhibitors upstairs in Hall 4 were only a step-up (pardon the pun) from market traders selling tools. Going right through to high-concept exhibitors from the education sector, IT and the ecobuilders, that represents quite a spread.

The most fun part of the show was the impressive Sustainability Street, with people like the footfall-powered lights from new start-up pavegen and the ‘podular’ living concept from modcell. We're now trying to work out how to finance a dwelle.co.uk hut as a work-from-home office in the garden!
 

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