The A to Z of New and Innovative Building Materials, Products and Systems
- The On-Line Building Technologies Information, Site, Supplier and Expert Directory
What is AZoBuild.com?
How effective is AZoBuild.com
AZoBuild Information Partners
How would AZoBuild.com work for me ?
My company has already got its own website, so why do we need AZoBuild.com?
My company has a website which really needs a facelift and updating, but we don't have sufficient budget at the moment. Can AZoBuild.com help ?
AZoBuild.com Marketing Packages and Rates
Platinum Listing Package
Expert Listings
Featured Supplier
Featured Product
Featured Project
Featured Conferences & Exhibitions (Events)
Featured Courses
Featured Books and Conference Proceedings
Top of Page Banner Advertisements which appear on every page of the site
What do I do next ?
What is AZoBuild.com ?
AZoBuild.com , the A to Z of New and Innovative Building Materials, Products and Systems, is a specialist website specifically designed by materials experts with many years of practical experience in Industrial and Academic environments and is based on the highly successful AZoM.com - The A to Z of Materials www.azom.com and AZoNano.com - The A to Z of Nanotechnology www.azonano.com .
AZoBuild.com was originally developed as part of the UK 's KIBT.com centre - Knowledge & Innovation in Building Technology. KIBT.com was developed in partnership with many highly respected UK based government, industry and materials organisations, including CERAM Research, the Department of Trade and Industry, Rethinking Construction, Construction Best Practice, National House Building Council, British Standards Institution, NBS (National Building Specifications), Centre for Construction Innovation North West, Business Link Staffordshire, Advantage West Midlands, Stokeworks and many others.
AZoBuild.com is a comprehensive knowledgebase dedicated to informing and educating building owners, specifiers, engineers, designers and scientists from all industries and in academia about all types of new and innovative building materials, products and systems.
AZoBuild.com contains regularly updated pages of technical data, feature articles, news stories, company profiles and expert listings supplied by many of the world's most eminent materials societies, research associations, academic institutions, market leading producers, equipment manufacturers and service providers.
AZoBuild.com 's on-line database has been carefully designed to be flexible and user-friendly and allows searches by a wide range of criteria in various combinations:
- by Material, Product or System and their properties
- by Building and Manufacturing Processes
- by individual Manufacturer or Supplier
- by Tradename
- by named Expert
How effective is AZoBuild.com
AZoBuild.com has teamed up with a leading materials information provider to build upon a tried and proven successful website data base and state-of-the-art search engine. The AZoM.com site is now a world leading site with over 1,000,000 visitor sessions per month.
AZoBuild.com Information Partners
Information is sourced from a range of U.K. and global content partners, some of these are listed below:
CERAM Research, Department of Trade and Industry, Rethinking Construction, Construction Best Practice, National House Building Council, British Standards Institution, NBS (National Building Specifications), Centre for Construction Innovation North West, Business Link Staffordshire, Advantage West Midlands, Stokeworks, The Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining; Rapra Technology; Australasian Ceramic Society; Composites Processing Association; Corrosion Protection Association; European Aluminium Association; European Aluminium Foil Association; European Powder Metallurgy Association; Institute of Materials Engineers, Australasia; Institute of Nanotechnology; International Tungsten Industry Association; Titanium Information Group and many others.
How would AZoBuild.com work for me ?
All visitors to AZoBuild.com can access the featured articles relating to a supplier, product or project which are available on the site.
Visitors can search the knowledge database using either the keywords or " AskAZoBuild " artificial intelligence described above and receive a set of search results in the form of technical articles, data sheets and news items. By clicking on and selecting any of these results, members can open the particular article data sheet or news story to view detailed information on their chosen subject. Published alongside this information are listings of Key Suppliers, Service Providers and Experts specific to that particular search. Visitors can use this information to obtain details for further contact.
Your company can be listed alongside all of the technical articles, data sheets and news items on the entire site against which you wish your details to be listed as a Key Supplier, Service Provider or Expert, with hot links directly into specific pages on your own website.
My company has already got its own website, so why do we need AZoBuild.com ?
Please consider the implications of these 2 highly relevant facts.
The latest independent industry research indicates that over 50% of engineers, designers and research scientists already rate the Internet as their Number 1 information resource tool. It is inevitable that this figure will continue to grow relentlessly as the worldwide web matures and high quality, speciality sites like AZoBuild.com , offering fast access to comprehensive and continuously updated information via user-friendly search facilities, come to the fore.
Over 80% of Internet searches are carried out using major search engines such as Google, and Yahoo. These search engines utilise highly sophisticated automated monitoring systems to constantly evaluate the quality, popularity and relevance of individual websites - and ranks their information accordingly.
By publishing your company's details and product information on AZoBuild.com, you will automatically gain the benefits of and thereby dramatically increase your chance of being found by those key customers.
My company has a website which really needs a facelift and updating, but we don't have sufficient budget at the moment. Can AZoBuild.com help ?
The purpose of your website is to enable Internet users to find comprehensive information on your company, its products and services as efficiently as possible. Even if you spent the money on updating your site, you may still have the problem of it not ranking high enough with the major search engines to be as effective as you would wish.
By publishing your information, technical data sheets, company profile and details of your product specialists (experts) on AZoBuild.com , you get the best of all worlds. We do the majority of the work and you get maximum exposure on a highly focused site at a very competitive price.
Remember, with the web, it doesn't matter where your information resides so long as your customers find it!
AZoBuild.com Marketing Packages and Rates
AZoBuild.com provides a range of "Platinum" listing packages, which allows Suppliers and Service Providers to be included alongside all information relating to their key materials, products, systems and services.
The listing packages are also complemented by more specific feature items, which further enhance the promotion of particular materials, products, systems, suppliers, individual experts, books, courses, exhibitions and conferences together with "run of site" banner advertisements.
Contact Rolf Easto rolfeasto@azonetwork.com for the latest details on Rates and Availability.
Platinum Listing Package
The AZoBuild.com Platinum Listing Package includes:
- Company Address Details
- Contact Details
- E-Mail Address
- Web Site URL
- Inclusion in Supplier Search
- 1000 word company profile
- One Company trade name per article to be added to the keyword search database
- Upload of Supplier Specific Data Sheets, Case Histories and Application Notes
Most suppliers wish to appear alongside articles and news items that relate to particular keywords. To provide suppliers with maximum flexibility, the "tiered" Platinum Listing Package allows suppliers and service providers to select the optimum number of articles to list against.
Typical Example : A 20 article platinum listing allows you to list your company profile alongside 15 existing articles and upload 5 of your company data sheets, press releases, case histories or similar documents. Other combinations of existing and new articles can be used up to the maximum listing amount.
Platinum and expert listings may be updated at any time during the listing period.
Expert Listings
Expert listings provide an ideal opportunity for suppliers and service providers to channel specific enquiries to the person within their organisation that they choose to handle a particular enquiry. Details of your in-house expert can be listed alongside the article of your choice and up to 3 associated articles.
Featured Supplier
An ideal front page and run of site location where you can feature a company development.
Featured Product
An ideal front page and run of site location where you can feature a new product launch or new company service.
Featured Project
An ideal front page and run of site location where you can feature a novel project.
Featured Conferences & Exhibitions (Events)
AZoBuild.com offers two packages to company conference and exhibition organizers. These packages ensure that your events can be identified when searches are being conducted for materials, products or systems related applications.
Potential delegates and visitors are more likely to act when they are searching for information on the particular materials, products or systems applications which relate to your event.
Option 1 List your event on the site's Events page (to view a listing example, click on Events in the left hand side menu).
Option 2 Available to clients who take Option 1. Inclusion in the site's Events page complemented by a specific feature article on your event within the body of the site. This article is keyworded appropriately for the event, so that it can be retrieved by keyword search as well as by "Ask AZOBUILD".
Featured Courses
AZoBuild.com offers three packages to Company Course providers to ensure that your courses can be identified when searches are being conducted for materials, products or systems related applications.
Potential attendees are more likely to act when they are searching for information on the particular materials, products or systems applications to which your course relates.
Option 1 List your Courses and Professional Development activities on the Courses page.
Option 2 Promote a single course on the home page in the "Featured Courses". This is complemented by a specific feature article on your course within the body of the site and a listing on the "Courses" page. This article is keyworded specifically for the materials, products or systems applications and industries which relate to your course.
Option 3 - Become our Featured Course Provider of the month. You will be given an exclusive position on the Home page and run of site pages. This is linked to a specific feature article on your company which includes a profile of your organisation and comprehensive details of your upcoming Courses for the next 6 months, chronologically listed. These courses are also included in the Courses page (detailed in Option 1.) for up to 12 months from the date of listing.
Featured Books and Conference Proceedings
AZoBuild.com offers three packages to publishers and conference organisers to ensure your publications are identified when searches are being conducted for materials, products or systems related applications.
Potential purchasers are more likely to act when they are searching for information on particular materials, products or systems applications.
Option 1 List your books and conference proceedings, by specific category on the AZoBuild.com "Books" page.
Option 2 Promote a single publication on the AZoBuild.com home page on the " AZOBUILD 's Materials Bookshop" ad rotator.
Option 3 Become the "Featured Book Publisher" of the month. This includes an exclusive position on the AZoBuild.com home page and run of site pages. This exclusive position is also linked to a specific feature article on your activities and includes a profile of your organisation, plus comprehensive details of up to 20 of your current publications relating to Building Technologies. These publications are also included in the AZoBuild.com "Books" pages for 12 months as detailed in Option 1 above.
Top of Page Banner Advertisements which appear on every page of the site
A premium sponsorship position. Advertisements (size 468 x 60 pixels) randomly rotated at the top of every page on AZoBuild.com
Note - All of the above special features may be animated to change the message every few seconds using animated gifs or Macromedia Flash presentations. Please note that additional production charges may apply.
What do I do next ?
If you would like to discuss what AZoBuild.com can do for your company, please contact us by any of the following routes:
Feedback:
Sales and Marketing:
General info:
United Kingdom
AZoNetwork UK Ltd., Fence House, Fence Ave,
Macclesfield, Cheshire SK10 1LT, UK
t: +44 (0)1625 615111
f: +44 (0)1625 610938
Australia
Suite 24, 90 Mona Vale Rd
Warriewood
NSW 2102
Australia
Tel: +61 (0)2 9999-0070
Fax: +61 (0)2 9999-0071
