November 2010: O’Reilly/DePalma was asked by a division of our American Standard Brands client to secure architect, designer and media attendance at a new product launch event in a midtown Manhattan showroom. Wendy Silverstein in New York managed the event planning, connecting the client to the right influencers in the New York design community.
Final attendance exceeded the expectations of the showroom and exceeded the success metric for attendance the client set as a goal. Client quote: “The attendance was not only great in quantity, but even better in quality. They genuinely liked what they saw and had a good time.”
To help mark National Fire Prevention Week, the Excelsior, Minn., Fire District hosted a dramatic, side-by-side demonstration of two room fires – one equipped with fire sprinklers and the other without – as part of its Fire Prevention Open House and Safety Fair on Thursday evening, Oct. 7, 2010. More than 1,200 local residents attended the event.
The Open House event culminated with firefighters simultaneously lighting fires in two similarly sized and furnished rooms, one sprinklered and the other not.
“By providing this unique live fire comparison, our residents gained an appreciation for the aggressive nature of home fires and realized what an incredible advantage it is to have a home fire sprinkler system,” says Excelsior Fire District Fire Inspector Kellie Murphy-Ringate.
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The Grundfos “Pumps on Tour” — a fully equipped, mobile educational center for professionals in the residential, commercial and industrial pumping industry — visited Chicago recently, setting up on the city’s South Side at U.S. Cellular Field, home of the Major League Baseball’s Chicago White Sox.
Held on June 22, the event welcomed representatives from approximately 75 local mechanical contracting and industrial companies as well as a dozen Chicago-area wholesale-distribution firms. The Chicago event was one of 48 that the “Pumps on Tour” vehicle will host in 27 different states during 2010. Through June 22, more than 2,400 people at 29 different stops had visited the 1,200-square-foot vehicle for hands-on training by Grundfos staff and the chance to experience first-hand an array of new pump products.
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American Standard Brands took a stand for global safe drinking water and basic sanitation for all, by standing up 12 high-efficiency toilets outside the U.S. Capitol on Tuesday, March 23, 2010 as part of a Guinness World Record attempt to create the World’s Longest Toilet Queue.
Alexandra Cousteau, granddaughter of the famous ocean explorer, and singer/actress Mandy Moore got in the queue, posing with our toilets in images that were featured on the USA Today website and Perez Hilton among other coverage of World Water Day identified by Google.
The event is part of two days of activities to support World Water Day (March 22), with toilet queues being set up in Europe and Asia, as well as North America, to draw attention to WASH, an acronym for water, sanitation and hygiene. Lack of access to fresh clean water, the world’s largest environmental health crisis, kills 4,500 children every day.
The 1,200-square-foot vehicle will visit 48 U.S. cities from March through November.
Grundfos “Pumps on Tour” — a fully equipped, mobile educational center for trade professionals in the residential, commercial and industrial pumping industry — will be visiting 48 different cities throughout the United States from March through November 2010. Each tour stop will allow trade professionals and building owners, and facility managers to gain hands-on training from Grundfos staff and the chance to experience interactive pump displays.
The 1,200-square-foot vehicle includes a mini-theater for viewing training videos and presentations, as well as a series of interactive, working displays of a wide selection of residential, commercial and industrial pump solutions from Grundfos.
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January 2010: O’Reilly/DePalma principals John O’Reilly and Nora DePalma attended the grand opening of the newly remodeled, 11,000-square-foot Uponor Factory Training Center on Feb. 16, 2010. In the image above, Jack Sweet of Reeves Journal, Bob Mader of CONTRACTOR and Bob Miodonski of Plumbing & Mechanical prepare for the presentation in the Uponor classroom.
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LNC Communications, a predecessor to O’Reilly/DePalma, helped Hansgrohe launch its new PuraVida collection in New York, beginning with six preview editorial appointments, followed by an evening reception for showrooms, specifiers and editors. Click on any image below to enlarge.
The fully equipped and well-appointed traveling educational vehicle gives New England and Middle Atlantic contractor and engineer visitors hands-on training in the latest technologies for residential, commercial and industrial pumps from Grundfos.
The new highly efficient Rheem Heat Pump Water Heater is introduced by Rheem product manager Tommy Olsen to the editors at Residential Design/Build and Qualified Remodeler.
O’Reilly/DePalma set up the two-day media tour for Rheem executives resulting in meetings with 12 publications reaching trade professionals.
O’Reilly DePalma’s newest client, Grundfos, launched their new ALPHA pump for hydronic heating systems in a big way today, with an event at the Aviation History Museum in Kansas City, MO.
The ALPHA is a new generation of circulators that saves up to 80% on power usage. Designed for hydronic heating applications in residential and light commercial applications, the compact ALPHA is equipped with the unique Grundfos AUTOadapt function that automatically modulates circulator performance to match ever-changing system demands.
