Hi there: My name is Paula Christiansen and I am nicknamed “The Walls Chick” here at Tangram, the largest privately-owned office furniture services dealership in the Western United States. I am passionate about agile architecture…office interiors solutions that are flexible, sustainable and green! I manage the architectural interiors division of our family of products and services, which includes not only moveable walls but raised access flooring, and sound masking. With Dirtt Environmental Solutions products and Steelcase Privacy Wall and Glass Selections, we help people build out beautiful, creative spaces that can future-proof their interiors against change while providing significant tax advantages! My mission: to tell the world about “Agile Architectural Interiors!”Hi there: My name is Paula Christiansen and I am nicknamed “The Walls Chick” here at Tangram, the largest privately-owned office furniture services dealership in the Western United States. I am passionate about agile architecture…office interiors solutions that are flexible, sustainable and green! I manage the architectural interiors division of our family of products and services, which includes not only moveable walls but raised access flooring, and sound masking. With Dirtt Environmental Solutions products and Steelcase Privacy Wall and Glass Selections, we help people build out beautiful, creative spaces that can future-proof their interiors against change while providing significant tax advantages! My mission: to tell the world about “Agile Architectural Interiors!”I was anxious and excited to start my fist day at NeoCon in Chicago. I didn’t know what to expect as about 100 DIRTTBags gathered at the Hotel 71 on Wacker Street for the annual DIRTT training and meeting session.
Mogens was inspiring, as always, in his typical "colorful" way, followed by announcements of what’s new with the latest software released, upcoming product releases, sales updates and forecasts for 2010-2011 and strategies. The afternoon was a session called "Thrills with Drills." We were divided up into about 10 teams of 10 people each and handed power tools (grunt grunt)! We were given a set of plans with an office design layout and a pile of stick built DIRTT product and a stop watch and someone yelled “go”! We built a small office about 4’ x 4’ square about 5’ high, including power. Each wall was different and we had to read the plan elevations to exactly match where all the tiles went, etc. What fun! And guess who’s team won? Yep, you guessed it. My team, along with David Morgan from Tangram! We made our local DIRTT reps, Donna Shirely and Mike Taylor proud.
Following this exciting activity, we walked to the new DIRTT showroom at 325 N. Wells Street for a cocktail party reception and sneak peak of what the world will see at Neocon. Wow, is all I can say. You MUST get over to the showroom to see it and bring as many people with you as you can. It is amazing. Photos from my fabulous day and the showroom are on Facebook.
Mogens was inspiring, as always, in his typical "colorful" way, followed by announcements of what’s new with the latest software released, upcoming product releases, sales updates and forecasts for 2010-2011 and strategies. The afternoon was a session called "Thrills with Drills." We were divided up into about 10 teams of 10 people each and handed power tools (grunt grunt)! We were given a set of plans with an office design layout and a pile of stick built DIRTT product and a stop watch and someone yelled “go”! We built a small office about 4’ x 4’ square about 5’ high, including power. Each wall was different and we had to read the plan elevations to exactly match where all the tiles went, etc. What fun! And guess who’s team won? Yep, you guessed it. My team, along with David Morgan from Tangram! We made our local DIRTT reps, Donna Shirely and Mike Taylor proud.
Following this exciting activity, we walked to the new DIRTT showroom at 325 N. Wells Street for a cocktail party reception and sneak peak of what the world will see at Neocon. Wow, is all I can say. You MUST get over to the showroom to see it and bring as many people with you as you can. It is amazing. Photos from my fabulous day and the showroom are on Facebook.
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