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<Paragraph>Escea has opened a dedicated Training & Selection Centre on the outskirts of Melbourne, built for the architects, designers, developers, builders, gasfitters, and installers who specify and install its fireplaces.</Paragraph>
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For specifiers, seeing a fireplace in person before it goes on a drawing gives a level of understanding – and reassurance – that a brochure or product photo can't. Finish, scale, craftsmanship, and flame behaviour are all there to study up close, and compare side by side.
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Most of the models in the space are fully working installations, including Escea's newest releases, with examples showing behind the wall so visitors can see exactly how each one installs and operates.
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<Paragraph>For specifiers, seeing a fireplace in person before it goes on a drawing gives a level of understanding – and reassurance – that a brochure or product photo can't. Finish, scale, craftsmanship, and flame behaviour are all there to study up close, and compare side by side.</Paragraph>
<Paragraph>Most of the models in the space are fully working installations, including Escea's newest releases, with examples showing behind the wall so visitors can see exactly how each one installs and operates.</Paragraph>
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<Paragraph>The centre also runs CPD presentations across a range of topics, so visiting architects and designers can earn points while viewing the range in person. Others come in with a specific project to talk through, or just a handful of product questions – with sessions fully tailored to each visitor's needs.</Paragraph>
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"Specifying a fireplace from a brochure is one thing – standing in front of the exact working model is another," says Mark Daffy, Escea's Melbourne-based Architectural Advisor. "You can see precisely what you're putting into a project before it's locked in."
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For gasfitters and installers, that often means working through clearances, flue configurations, and installation detail on a real, working fireplace, with Escea's specialist advisory team on hand throughout.
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"For the people actually putting these in – builders, gasfitters, installers – there's no substitute for seeing an installation with the wall open," says Julian Terry, Escea's Construction Advisor. "It answers questions in real time that a spec sheet can't."
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