Our lovely receptionist, Nyssa, wed her childhood sweetheart Cris at the village church at Chenies, Bucks, at the end of August. Nyssa has been our receptionist for nearly three years now and they are spending their honeymoon in Egypt. The bridal car was a vintage Cadillac and probably one of the very first 'stretch limos' and indeed, it is the only one in the country. She is seen with our MD, Prof Terry Payne, after the exhausting ordeal at the reception! This is the third recent marriage we have had within the firm, firstly Luigi, our Contracts Manager, who also married his childhood sweetheart, Lisa, and then there was Nick Hopper, our Head of Design, married his childhood sweetheart, Shelley! Both Nick and Luigi have been with the company for nine years. We certainly do foster long term relationships!

Last weekend saw another trip to our base in Austria for more team building and Sales training. The house in Pillersee is looking particularly beautiful with its flower boxes and clearly, Austria doesn't suffer the same fate as the UK with lack of rainfall! On the white water rafting Tony Cull, our Technical Director, was lead stroke and because of the heavy rainfall recently in Austria, the river was twice as high and twice as fast as usual. As a result, the rafts went all the way to the German border before returning to the base in Lofer. The Austrian trip coincided with two Music Festivals, one in Fieberbrunn and one in St Ulrich, so apart from the slight disturbance with the security at Heathrow, a good time was had by all.

We are delighted to say that we have appointed a new Agent for Barbados in the West Indies, this being Environmental Solutions International Inc. They are based in Christ Church, Barbados, and they are representing our interest mainly to promote Windcatchers and SunPipes in Barbados and the West Indies but also to promote our complete range of products. ESI are working in association with Solutions FTE Limited in the UK and Solutions FTE have offices in Worcester and Henley on Thames and they see a great future for our products in the Caribbean.

The SunPipe Polo Team were delighted to win their latest tournament at the West Wycombe Park Polo Club with a win of 10½ to 1 goals over their opponents, West Wycombe Polo Team, to win the Chairman's Cup.

To win by a half goal might sound surprising to some people but in Polo, you have a handicap and in this case, the SunPipe Team carried a half goal handicap. Our Polo Team have had a series of successes throughout the season, including winning the Silver Cup at the Royal Leamington Spa Polo Club and also the Captains Tournament at Kirtlington Polo Club at Oxford.

The SunPipe Polo Team consists of a total of 16 Polo ponies, all from Argentina and they have a full-time coach also from Argentina and the ponies are stabled at Radnage, near High Wycombe.

We have introduced a new neoprene, gasket sealed diffuser.  We have introduced this neoprene seal to provide a perfect dustproof seal to both the SunPipe and the ceiling, which makes installation considerably easier.  This additional neoprene gasket will be supplied at no additional cost and will be part of the SunPipe system in general.

This 40 page booklet is full of information ranging from installation questions to component weights and much more. The aim of this booklet is to provide answers to your frequently asked questions. Armed with this information you will be ready to make the right choice, in ordering your systems at our online shop, by clicking here.
The Questions and Answers booklet can be found at our any Jewsons store and at any of our stockists located around the uk, to see the location of our stockists please go here. Alternatively, please contact our Marketing Department and ask them to send you a copy of the booklet.

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Both Monodraught and WindowMaster are experts in their own right in designing natural ventilation systems. Monodraught uses the Windcatcher top down ventilation, which is ideally suited to deep plan buildings, classrooms, and virtually any commercial building. WindowMaster are specialists in designing automatic window openers that can be programmed to open and close windows remotely, according to temperature levels and CO². By putting the two technologies together, this offers the 'best of both worlds' in 'optimising the principles of natural ventilation' utilising the latest control technology to maximise the benefits of natural ventilation.

Our team building weekend in Austria was a great success, with over 80 of our staff, Clients and colleagues. After a lunchtime Sales Conference on the Saturday, the afternoon was spent on wild water rafting, where four teams competed as to who could get the wettest! After a horse riding session, mountain biking, and trips up the chairlift, the final Sales briefing was given on the top of the Steinplatte mountain, where some of the team found a snow gulley and did some snow boarding but without the boards! However, everyone got back safely, much fitter and wiser after the event!

We had another excellent Exhibition at the NEC Birmingham last month, where we had more than 600 visitors to our Stand. NEMEX stands for the National Energy Managers' Exhibition and attracts more than 6,000 visitors, mainly Facilities Managers and Energy Managers. All our Sales Managers and Sales staff were kept very busy throughout the Show and we have already signed up again for next year!

The complete range of Monodraught products was on show but particular interest was shown in our new Sola-Boost system, which for the very first time offers on a worldwide basis "Energy-Free Powered Natural Ventilation".

This represents a tremendous breakthrough for energy conscious Managers. Naturally, considerable interest was also shown in all other Monodraught products on show.