GREEN-TECH 20TH ANNIVERSARY
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gtSpecifier designs, and we knew how to piece together an installation using our products. So this led to the creation of gtSpecifier. We knew that we needed to dedicate more personnel, resources and time to this arm of the business and gtSpecifier has grown organically over the last three years. gtSpecifier isn’t a sales motivated During 2011 we witnessed an increase in department; it’s about working with Designers requests from Landscape Architects and and Architects, building relationships and Contractors to assist them at specification, helping them find the best solutions for their estimating and drawing stage. We had the projects. We recently worked with Specimen product knowledge and the technical expertise Trees and Steve Martlew, who were involved in to make suggestions and recommendations for moving the Coronation Street studio from its old location to the new Media City in Salford. They were half way through the scheme when they realised that uplifting the tree and re-rooting it was just not feasible and they needed an exact replica! Steve contacted us to get the new tree in the ground with minimal disruption. They had a limited amount of space and needed us to come up with a solution that would protect the tree roots. They asked for our advice on what product we had to help integrate this mature tree into the scheme. This is what gtSpecifier is all about – we look at projects on a The gtSpecifier team: Sherry Bonnett, Callum Dawson, job-by-job basis and create Richard Wexham and Barry Browne solutions for that particular area. Barry Browne of gtSpecifier talks to Joe Wilkinson about the arm of the Green-tech business that focusses on technical specification and finding landscape solutions for Landscape Architects, Contractors and Garden Designers.
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We work on quite a lot of projects like the one at Coronation Street. The team includes myself as Technical Specification Manager, my main role is to visit Architects, provide educational seminars and devise with solutions at specification stage. I work with Richard Wexham who is our Product Specification Manager; he has a really good
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