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This is What Happens When You Attend the Santa Clara NorCal Facilities Expo

September 29, 2022 by Carol S Leave a Comment

The Window Works Booth (and that’s Atlas Copco right behind us!) at NCFE!

Recently, a few of the Window Works Crew attended the Northern California Facilities Expo in Santa Clara. This Expo was September 20 – 21, 2022. Now, in case you were wondering, it wasn’t our first time at the rodeo! We’ve been before, and we’ll be going again. In fact, we even wrote about our previous visits! You might be interested in a couple of our recent trips:

  • The Window Works Crew at the 2021 Facilities Expo
  • The Southern California Facilities Expo

We also attended in 2019 in real life, plus the virtual event in 2020, and you can read about it here: Visit the Virtual California Facilities Expo 2020 November 18-19. We started going around 2015–if you can remember that far back!

That’s Donna Dris up in friend Sunbelt Rental’s lift!

Friends near and far

By now, we’ve attended so many of these expo’s that we’ve made a lot of friends! So it’s great to see familiar faces when we go, along with new friends, too! Some of our friends include Sunbelt Rentals, who’ve had the booth across from us for years, David, below, who serves drinks, and of course our pals at Atlas Copco!

The ever-friendly David, serving beer (and more) at Happy Hour!

Happy Hour Hosting

As we’ve done in the past, we sponsored the beer and snacks right by our booth, along with our neighbors and best buddies from Atlas Copco. This year, we had a make-it-yourself nachos bar, with ground beef, cheese, different salsas, sour cream, chips, cookies, and bottled water (for our non-drinking buddies). We loved seeing all the smiling faces and meeting new friends as well as neighboring booth people.

The swag!

Look at that cute little red shot glass from R&S Doors Gates and Docks, above (it lights up, too)! Atlas Copco also did some top-notch branding with their giveaways–the tool card blueprint, webcam cover, and bottle opener were excellent! Pumpman Norcal had those huge markers that won’t get lost since 1. they’re huge, and 2. they’re fluorescent! And Restoration Management Company’s giveaway of wipes in a travel bag? We’re hooked! We love having all these reminders of our time at the Expo! They’ll have a special home in our office. And maybe even our travel bags.

Donna, Irene, and Asia at the booth

And another thing!

Yes, we even got to talk about window film during the show! Luckily, we’re all very familiar and comfortable talking about window film. Many people don’t know just how many things window film can do these days. We fielded lots of questions about applying window film for different situations, and of course, one of the newest applications will be the anti-bird strike window film. We’ll be writing about that very soon!

Next time come join us!

While we’re happy to attend the Facilities Expos, we’d be even more happy if you’d join us next time! So keep a watch on the Northern California Facilities Expo’s website for more info about 2023!

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: 3M window film, facilities expo, Facilities management, Santa Clara NorCal Facilities Expo, SCNFE

The Southern California Facilities Expo: Five Best Reasons to Visit!

May 10, 2022 by Carol S Leave a Comment

Just a few of the exhibitors at the Southern California Facilities Expo!

Recently, the Window Works staff attended the Southern California Facilities Expo, at the Anaheim Convention Center. From the SCFE website, “The Facilities Expo provides FREE valuable learning and networking opportunities in a unique format serving the southern California region. Bringing together the facilities engineering, MRO and green building communities, Southern California Facilities Expo attracts a diverse audience of facilities managers, maintenance managers, and energy managers  from a wide variety of industries including food processing, government, healthcare, manufacturing, education, wineries, utilities and others.”

Here are some images and highlights from our time at the facilities expo! By the way, we’ve written about other facilities expo’s before. See some of the other highlights here:

  • Central Valley Facilities Expo
  • Northern California Facilities Expo 2021
Asia Bautista and Kashmir Uppal, from Atlas Copco Compressors, LLC

Seeing friends

We tend to run into some of the same people at facilities conferences, whether we’re in South California, Northern California, or Modesto (Central California). Above, our fearless leader Asia meets with friend Kashmir Uppal, from Atlas Copco Compressors, LLC. Kashmir Uppal is San Francisco Bay Area · CTS Regional Sales Manager for Atlas Copco, in case you were wondering. Meeting long-lost friends is probably our favorite part of the Expo.

Seeing even more friends

We love reconnecting with friends! Don’t you? Here we are with some of our bestest buds, above. That’s Nick MacArthur, brother John MacArthur, and Bobby Slingsby from Graffiti Shield. Since Graffiti Shield is in Anaheim they didn’t have far to travel. And that beer certainly can’t hurt (more on the beer in a minute). Also pictured: Asia and Donna from Window Works!

The giveaways and swag are always fun at the Facilities Expo!

The Giveaways and Swag!

Look at that cute little promo truck from 1-800-GOT-JUNK, above! McKendry and Affinity also did some top-notch branding with their giveaways. We love having all these reminders of our time at the Expo! They’ll have a special home in our office.

The Happy Hour

The Happy Hour, co-sponsored with Atlas Copco Compressors, LLC, was one of our favorite parts of the Expo! Yes! We had happy hour in our booth which meant we didn’t have to drive home, since we were already there! You know what we mean. But actually we were happy for more than just the Happy Hour–we’re super happy and friendly all the time.

Making new connections

Of course, making new friends is super easy when the reception is in your booth! You can see just a few of our new friends in the photo above.

Did we forget anything?

If you were there and we forgot something, or even if you just want to chat, give us a call! Window Works customer care is at 415.650.5200. Pick up your phone and enter our number! We really are very friendly, and we’ll answer your questions.

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: Facilities management, Facilities managers, San Francisco Bay Area, window film

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