Tim Searle, owner and president of Searle Exhibit Technologies Inc., an exhibit systems manufacturer based in Indianapolis, Inn., has announced that Setdecks, the new multi-story system, will launch at EXHIBITOR2012 in Las Vegas on March 5-7, 2012, in booth #1961.
“We will be unveiling SETdecks at the show, but our exhibit house clients already use SETdecks for their own clients’ exhibits and give it rave reviews,” said Searle.
SET provided the Expodeck multi-story system for 12 years. Mr. Searle designed Expodeck 17 years ago while working with the former Icon International Inc.
Searle states that the exhibit industry has changed significantly since 1995. The International Building codes including Universal Building codes are much stricter. Exhibit designs demand higher design aesthetics and economic pressures require an even greater need for efficient setup times and lower costs.
“Although SET no longer offers new Expodecks to our clients, we will continue to provide our own Ambidex and Lucid wall systems along with SETdecks,” said Searle. “We will also provide engineering and assistance for any existing Expodeck that needs to be reconfigured or augmented with our own products to meet code. Of course, Expodeck may still be purchased from and engineered by Highmark Technologies.”
SETdecks is designed with several patent-pending technologies to meet or exceed existing 2012 IBC -UBC standards. The multi-story is at least two times stronger than other comparable multi-story systems.
Current multi-story design trends incorporate more open structures with fewer columns and larger unsupported beam spans. Searle designed SETdecks beams to allow longer free open spans up to 30 feet. Setdecks can be custom engineered if even longer spans are required. The number of beams needed per multi-story is 20 percent fewer, on average.
SETdecks needs fewer labor hours to install making the time needed for setup up to 40 percent less. The beams attach to columns with SET’s new patent-pending beam-to-column connection. Each patent-pending deck panel requires only one connection to another panel and one connection to the beam, while other systems can require up to 10.
Because SETdecks requires less material and shorter setup times, the multi-story costs less even though it has a high design aesthetic.
“We value our association with Highmark over the last 12 years,” said Searle. “We also want to provide our clients and the tradeshow industry with the most innovative, cost-effective, code-compliant and aesthetically pleasing products available. Everyone at SET wholeheartedly believes that those products are SET’s Ambidex and Lucid wall systems, custom components and the new SETdecks multi-story system. SET is strengthening our teams to meet growing client demands with ever better customer service, and we are increasing our client base with our offering of SETdecks.”
