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WebShade has accredited WebShade Auditors
August 2007
WebShade Pty Ltd has appointed and trained Archicentre and Play & Safety Australia in using WebShade shade planning software and in preparing WebShade Audits. Both organisations have many years of experience in designing outdoor environments, especially child care centres.
Any individual or organisation that is responsible for the safety and comfort of outdoor facilities can hire the services of one of these professional planners to undertake their WebShade Audit. These two valuable partners make it possible to deliver WebShade Auditing Services in cities and country centres across Australia.
Archicentre is the building advisory service of the Royal Australian Institute of Architects. They provide professional, independent architectural services to businesses, homebuilders and homebuyers.
Play & Safety Australia is designs creative child care playgrounds and have been trained and accredited in playground safety. P&SA also provide a range of visualisation services for organisations requiring graphical representations of their products and creations to be conveyed to clients such as shade installers, architects and product manufacturers.
P&SA are fully accredited in the use of WebShade software and the WebShade Audit process.
WebShade Features at ACASPA Expo 2007 Adelaide
3 June 2007
The WebShade stand at the ACASPA Expo 2007 held 26-28 May 2007 was overwhelmed with interest by suppliers and fabricators in the new release of the WebShadePro product.
John Greenwood, Managing Director of WebShade said that attendees were very impressed with WebShadePro's ability to accurately project shade outcomes for their shade designs before they were even built. John said that many of the attendees also commented that they believed that they could increase the amount of shade cloth sold on jobs, simply by working with the client to design better shade outcomes.
WebShade offered a 25% discount on the WebShadePro product to Expo 2007 attendees up until 30th June 2007.
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WebShade Audits go national with Archicentre
June 2007
In an exciting initiative that will allow people throughout Australia to access professionally prepared Shade Audits, WebShade and Archicentre have joined forces to fight skin cancer.
Archicentre, an advisory service of the Royal Australian Institute of Architects, has more than 900 architects Australia-wide, with offices in Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane, Adelaide, Perth and Hobart and branches in many regional centres.
Trained in the use the WebShade software and able to draw on their design and construction skills, Archicentre's architects will produce Shade Audits of the highest quality, enabling child care centres, schools, councils and other property owners to better manage, design and use their outdoor areas.
 
WebShade solutions for NSW Councils
April 2007
In October 2006, the Cancer Council NSW + WebShade began a series of interactive shade planning workshops for planners in local government called 'Shade Solutions'. To date workshops have been conducted in nine locations throughout NSW with 47 councils attending. The series will conclude in August with workshops in Western and South Western regions.
Of the 73 people who attended the workshops, the overwhelming majority found them to be a positive and useful experience. Likewise the WebShade software was rated highly - 94% agreeing it was a useful and effective tool for learning and planning shade -
...very informative
...program is very user friendly
...great product
...glad to see it was developed.
Each participating council received a free software trial and WebShade is currently in discussion with several councils who have expressed interest in purchasing the software.
NZ to develop WebShade teaching resource
April 2007
Thirty New Zealand low decile schools will be testing and evaluating WebShade software as a new teaching and planning resource. It's the intention of Health Sponsorship Council to bid for funding from the Ministries of Health and Education to make WebShade available in all low decile schools in 2007/08 and all primary and intermediate schools by 2010.
The project started in May 2006 when the HSC funded a trial of WebShade in NZ primary schools. The schools identified WebShade as an excellent curriculum resource. The current HSC pilot has received funding and support from Genesis Oncology Trust for developing teaching resources.
Child care centres find it easy to get shadier
January 2007
Between October and December 2006 four NSW child care centres experienced WebShade first hand. Each centre installed the software and did a WebShade Audit for their outdoor areas.
The trial was sponsored by the NSW Cancer Council and the purpose was to determine if the staff could use WebShade to create more sun safe environments. They took on the job with no training or little technical support and produced very positive results.
All centres found the software relatively easy to very usable.
Even more importantly they found that the WebShade Audit process was valuable.
...glad I now have concrete evidence of how much shade
is available at different times of the year.
They confirmed significant benefits in using WebShade to plan the use of outdoor spaces.
I can definitely see a need for WebShade in a lot of child care centres as I know from experience that some centres still do not focus enough attention on sun protection issues.
NZ software trial a great success:
"It is exciting" says teacher
June 2006
WebShade has recently completed a highly successful trial of the software in New Zealand schools and councils. Conducted in collaboration with the NZ Cancer Society and the Health Sponsorship Council, the trial involved seven schools and four councils.
The principal aims were to determine if schools and councils were able to use the software and if it was helpful in determining effective shade outcomes. The unanimous response from all locations was a definitive 'Yes!' to both questions.
Said one teacher ." I see really exciting learning opportunities that come out of a project like this because it is authentic learning. It's solving real life problems and using smart technology."
A range of useful comments were received, which will considerably assist the design team to 'fine-tune' the software and further increase functionality.
Public health specialists Quigley + Watts assessed the trial results.
Trial Evaluation Report (PDF)
Shade industry agrees:
WebShadePRO really does have it covered
24 June 2006
WebShadePRO made its NZ debut at the OFPANZ Conference in Auckland on 24 June, 2006. Suppliers and fabricators alike were intrigued by the ability of this software package to provide simple on-site solutions to designing effective shade.
Toni May, from shade and sun awning fabricators Peter M May Ltd, enjoyed familiarizing herself with the software at the conference.
"I can see the benefits of being able to show customers the shade options on site. WebShadePRO will allow us to show our customers where shade will fall on their sites anywhere, anytime. It is a very useful tool for taking the guesswork out of shade design and allowing us to provide the most effective shade solutions."
During July, WebShade is offering a one-month free trial to all fabricators and suppliers. Toni will be using her free trial in the lead up to the new summer season.
We are using feedback received from the conference participants to fine tune WebShadePRO which will be available for purchase on 1 August 2006.
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