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LEXINGTON, MA, March 1, 2007—Wrightsoft Corporation today announced the launch of Right-University™ On-Demand Training™, a library of online training videos on Wrightsoft’s award-winning HVAC design software. Available at www.wrightsoft.com/university, Right-University’s On-Demand Training videos were created to provide customers with easy-to-follow video instruction on the features and tools of Wrightsoft products, whenever and wherever desired, and at their own pace.

“Through On-Demand Training from Right-University, our customers will now have easy access to self-guided instruction and answers to all of their Wrightsoft product questions, in a flexible, modular format,” said Chris Edgren, Vice President of Sales and Marketing for Wrightsoft. “Our traditional training workshops have been hugely successful, and this online extension will add an on-demand dimension to our product education. We are committed to giving our customers every tool possible to use our software effectively and to its fullest potential, and the many aspects of Right-University compliment our continued efforts and customer-centric philosophy.”

Right-University provides an online component to Wrightsoft’s current in-person training programs, which include in-depth workshops on Right-Sales™ and Right-Proposal Plus^TM, customized webinars regularly conducted by Wrightsoft’s technical support team, and full time trainers that travel the country based on client needs.

Currently, Right-University’s On-Demand Training offers over 70 training videos focused on Wrightsoft’s Right-Suite Residential™ product. The length of each module varies depending on the subject being taught. From quick lessons on getting started with Right-Suite Residential and customizing wizards, to longer tutorials on complete examples with Right-Duct™ and Right-Radiant Plus™, Right-University provides a comprehensive education on Wrightsoft’s Right-Suite Residential software.

Over time, Right-University will expand to include a complete collection of training modules on other Wrightsoft products, with new elements being added on a monthly basis.

Customers can receive unlimited access to Right-University’s On-Demand Training for an $89 annual charge. For more information, please contact Wrightsoft Sales at 800-225-8697, via email at sales@wrightsoft.com or through our website at www.wrightsoft.com/university.

LEXINGTON, MA, January 29, 2007—Wrightsoft continues its commitment to the HVAC industry with a revolutionary new product, Right-Suite Universal (RSU), recently winning an Honorable Mention in the 2007 AHR Expo Innovation Awards. RSU is a newly developed HVAC software package that combines residential and commercial design capabilities in one product for the first time, giving customers the power to use a single program for all of their design and sales projects, something not currently possible with today’s single-function software.

“RSU represents the culmination of 20 years of research, development and technological innovation. By creating a program that allows users to manage residential and commercial projects at the same time, and quickly and easily switch between calculation methods, we are enabling a level of efficiency that will save our customers enormous amounts time and money,” said Chris Edgren, Vice President of Sales and Marketing for Wrightsoft. “This recognition from AHR validates our efforts, and confirms that RSU is a true industry breakthrough that will significantly change the face of HVAC software.”

RSU integrates the functionalities of Wrightsoft’s industry‐leading software products to allow users to quickly switch calculation methods depending upon project requirements, instead of opening and operating separate programs for each project. For instance, commercial load calculation methods that are beneficial for high end housing will now be available for use on residential projects, which will also have access to commercial duct calculations that allow more accurate results for complicated duct designs. At the same time, commercial projects will now benefit from the additional functionalities of Wrightsoft modules, Right‐Radiant Plus^TM, Right‐Proposal Plus^TM, Right‐Loop^TM, Right‐Sales^TM and Right‐$^TM, which allow for a range of design and sales capabilities previously only available in residential design software.

By combining ASHRAE, ACCA, and HRAI technologies into a single design and estimating product, designers can now apply the most appropriate load, duct, radiant and geothermal design methods to any building. For the first time, RSU allows real‐time switching between the following:

• • Residential load methods – ACCA Manual J both 7th and 8th editions, new ASHRAE Residential Heat Balance Method 1199 and HRAI F280 (Canada).
  • Commercial load methods – ASHRAE Commercial Heat Balance Method, ASHRAE Radiant Time Series (RTS), ACCA Manual N and ASHRAE 24‐hours CLTD.
  • Duct Design Methods – ASHRAE duct method (using ASHRAE duct database), ACCA Manual D and HRAI duct design (Canada).

RSU also uses and introduces to the industry, Wrightsoft’s Layered Materials Technology^TM (LMT), which will allow designers to make their own custom material values by layering standard material values, therefore enabling easy translation into any of the seven calculation methods instantaneously. The custom materials can be stored in templates and libraries, reducing set up and calculation time.

The AHR 2007 Software Innovation Award is the latest in a long line of industry accolades given to Wrightsoft for its products. Previous awards include the 2006 Dealer Design Gold Award, won for Wrightsoft’s Uponor System Design Software™, the 2005 Dealer Design Silver Award, won for Right‐Sales™, the 2005 AHR Software Innovation Award, won for Right‐Radiant Plus™, the 2004 Dealer Design Gold Award, won for Right‐Proposal Plus™, the 2004 AHR Software Innovation Award, won for Right‐Suite Residential™, and the 2003 Comfortech Software Award, won for Right‐Suite Residential™.

LEXINGTON, MA, January 4, 2007–Wrightsoft successfully launched a new series of interactive software trainings with its first sales workshop in early December, 2006 in Waltham, MA. Attended by 21 people representing 12 brands and 16 companies around the country, the workshop focused on the use of Right-Sales in the home and the customization of the product to meet the customer’s individual business needs. Unlike any other HVAC software, Right-Sales enables companies to quickly and easily develop a professional presentation and proposal to match their exact business requirements while simultaneously linking to other Wrightsoft modules for Manual J load calculations, duct design, operating cost analysis, and more. The program involves the customer with an interactive and unique needs-based assessment, incorporating the customer’s answers into a complete Bill of Material and a ready-to-sign proposal.

“Right-Sales is really great, I love it and plan on using it for all of my jobs, stated Buck Bell,” Fulkerson Services, Inc. “This year my goal, with the help of this product, is to improve my closing ratio and increase my overall bottom line by 10-20%. Right-Sales helps me to work smarter and gives me more confidence for the entire sales call. From easily constructing a block load to producing a proposal, I’m able to actively involve the customer, who remains my main focus and why I’m there.”

• • Incorporate their company story and customer testimonials as presentations within the program.
  • Use their current sales proposal as a Right-Proposal Plus document, and create other alternative proposals for different types of sales.
  • Generate complete bills of materials with their part numbers and pricing.
  • Take advantage of the built-in, needs-based questionnaire to involve the customer during a sale to design a system based on their comfort needs.
  • Use the Sales Manager to organize their sales team, establish sales goals, and track performance.
  • Import their own database of parts and equipment to use them in the design, estimate, and proposal.

Different from the typical one-day and two-day training class, this new series of workshops will focus on specific aspects of the program and work with customers individually to ensure their success. “We are really pleased with the results of the recent workshop and feel these workshops are an excellent resource for our customer’s overall success,” stated Chris Edgren, Vice President of Sales and Marketing, Wrightsoft. In addition to the Right-Sales workshop recently held, an additional workshop to focus on Right-Proposal Plus and its capabilities is being planned for the near future. By breaking the program down to focus on specific areas, Wrightsoft is able to ensure that the workshop attendees build the skills they need to maximize the potential of the program and ultimately, maximize their success.

LEXINGTON, MA, November 15, 2006—Wrightsoft introduces Professional Services, tailored business support and services designed to help the HVAC contractor streamline their HVAC design and sales process through the customizable features of Right-Suite software. Through this service, Wrightsoft is able to offer a full range of customization and training services that incorporate the company’s own database of parts and assemblies within Right-Suite Residential to help them meet their goals.

“All of our products and services follow the same underlining principle of increasing the business success of HVAC professionals,” stated Chris Edgren, Wrightsoft Vice President of Sales and Marketing. “Professional Services is the next logical step in continuing this mission.”

Through Professional Services we are able to offer a multitude of business solutions, from simply customizing a single presentation or proposal, to setting up complete bills of material, to tailoring a full package of detailed customization services and on-site training.

LEXINGTON, MA, October 6, 2006 — For twenty years, Wrightsoft has focused its inventions on helping HVAC contractors save time and produce accurate results so they could run a more profitable and efficient business. From an initial meeting with ACCA, the Air Conditioning Contractors of America, Wrightsoft developed a unique idea of placing the Manual J form on the screen, making it calculate and display the answer whenever an input number changed. “We struck a deal with ACCA that very day,” stated Bill Wright, President of Wrightsoft.

“It took an entire year to develop this initial product, Right-J™, continues Bill Wright, “but it was worth it. The first group of contractors who used Right-J told us it exceeded their expectations and one customer even said, it made doing load calculations as fun as it could possibly be.” Continuously listening to the needs of the consumer is what guides Wrightsoft’s development. “Our inventions along the way, like maximum integration of loads, ducts, takeoffs, and even Right-Draw™ have all come about because they told us what they wanted.”

In these two decades, there has been a revolution in the design process, with Wrightsoft introducing several important innovations and partnerships that make HVAC design and sales a much easier and more accurate process.

Not only does Wrightsoft continue to be the only company to offer a fully automated HVAC design and sales program for both residential and commercial markets, Wrightsoft also offers the ability to customize a “Right-Suite®” based on the specific needs of the user, combining up to 10 residential or 5 commercial modules. Right-Suite is driven by the innovative Hotlink™ Technology, which formulates the program to act as a “live model” where any changes made by the user are instantly recognized throughout each of the connected modules within the Suite.

“After 20 years, our steadfast commitment of automating the design and sales process to assist the HVAC professional work more efficiently, is unchanged.” Chris Edgren, Vice President of Sales & Marketing for Wrightsoft further explained, “We were the first software provider to directly link our product to Florida’s residential energy code program, and now we have successfully completed the same thing with REScheck™ and REM/Rate™. Our product’s automation streamlines the process and eliminates the need to enter the same information multiple times in different programs.”

Understanding how this can benefit the contractor, Wrightsoft has developed strategic partnerships with several of the top equipment manufacturers like American Standard, Bryant, Carrier, Coleman, Luxaire, Rheem, Roth, Trane, Unico, Uponor, York, and Zurn. “These relationships are extremely important and give us the ability to include in our software access to the manufacturer’s equipment database, marketing data, and pricing, thereby giving the user all the information they need electronically to create thorough system designs complete with professional proposals.” Chris Edgren continued, “by keeping a pulse on the industry and listening to our customers, we have been able to create the programs that make them more successful.”

“We are very pleased and proud to celebrate our twentieth anniversary,” continues Bill Wright, “and believe that our dedication has led the industry toward better system design, through the use of computers in business. We appreciate the support from our customers, and look forward to what the next 20 years will bring.”

LEXINGTON, MA, August 10, 2006–In partnership with Uponor, Wrightsoft has been selected by an independent panel of 45 contractors to win a gold medal in the Dealer Design Awards for its innovative design of (USDS) Uponor System Design Software.

Built upon Wrightsoft’s Right-Suite Residential platform, USDS is a complete radiant design program with snow melt capabilities for automatically designing and laying out radiant loops using Uponor’s standards. It was developed with the Uponor dealer in mind to aid in their design and installation while incorporating other features, such as parts takeoff lists, proposals, and in-home selling abilities. Easily they will be able to produce and showcase color-coded CAD-quality radiant loop design layouts using multiple loop patterns that fit any size boundary. Connected to Uponor specific calculation methods, accurate results instantly update connected bills of material and professional proposals to assist in the sales process.

“We are honored to be selected for this award by contractors in the field,” said Chris Edgren, Vice President of Sales & Marketing, Wrightsoft. “This win not only signifies the program’s acceptance in the marketplace, but it also highlights our relationship with Uponor, a well established leading manufacturer of radiant floor heating, cross linked polyethylene (PEX) tubing, and fire protection systems.”

“We have been fortunate to be able to work with Wrightsoft to pool our expertise and wisdom in software and design to make USDS such an extremely valuable tool,” stated Jan Andersson, Heating Product Manager, Uponor North America. “We truly value our partnership with Wrightsoft and are pleased that USDS fully encompasses our design conditions and the latest radiant technologies to create such a high quality radiant loop layout. Wrightsoft not only helps our customers save valuable time and money, but we can confidently say that there is no other product on the market that can produce such a high caliber design like USDS.”

LEXINGTON, MA, July 28, 2006– Wrightsoft is pleased to announce its Vice President of Research, Charles “Chip” Barnaby, has been presented with the Distinguished Service Award by ASHRAE (the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air Conditioning Engineers, Inc.) for his numerous contributions.

Chip’s contributions to the society include serving and chairing committees on energy and load calculations, climatic information, and XML definitions for HVAC&R. He is also the primary author of Chapter 29: Residential Heating and Cooling Load Calculations in the 2005 ASHRAE Handbook of Fundamentals and has penned two technical papers on new residential heating and cooling load calculation procedures that use a detailed heat balance procedure. Both papers have also resulted in ASHRAE Technical Paper Awards and are being readily adopted throughout the industry.

As the driving force behind Wrightsoft’s Research and Development Department, Chip’s experience and industry knowledge is passed on to their customers through the heating and cooling load calculations engine within Right-Suite®.

LEXINGTON, MA, August 8, 2005–Wrightsoft was recently recognized for excellence in product design in the second annual Dealer Design Awards Program. An independent panel of 65 contractors acted as judges in the contest that had 114 entries from 82 manufacturers. Right-Sales&trade—In Home Selling Software was selected as the Silver medal winner in the Contractor Services and Software category.

“This is a very useful product for the residential contractor. It has a nice integration between sales management and the sales process with the customer.” stated one of the judges.

News Publisher John Conrad stated, “This product design competition gives us the opportunity to recognize the outstanding product designs and innovations that make a dealers job easier and faster. It also enables our readers to identify new product opportunities.”

“Right-Sales offers many benefits to contractors that were unavailable in the past and we are honored to be recognized by the contractors themselves,” stated Chris Edgren, Vice President of Sales for Wrightsoft. “Right-Sales is the only sales software to incorporate Manual J load calculations while automating the entire sales process. It is a powerful, easy-to-use sales system with customized in-home presentation capabilities and sales management organization. Right-Sales helps the contractor separate from the competition, involve the customer in the sale, and increase sales and profits.

“Right-Sales is so effective as a sales tool that every contractor will have to have it in order to succeed or even to remain in business, stated Tom Beaulieu of Bay Area Services. “I am thoroughly convinced that Right-Sales will become the most sought after revolutionary HVAC product ever developed.”

LEXINGTON, MA, December 14, 2004–Wrightsoft announces its 2nd consecutive win of the prestigious AHR Expo Innovation Award. On the forefront of technology and performance, Wrightsoft continues to be acknowledged for providing the latest innovative software to the HVAC industry. This year’s winning module, Right-Radiant&trade, was selected by a panel of six ASHRAE appointed judges, based on their knowledge and experience in the HVAC industry. They recognized Right-Radiant for its unique and innovative ability to produce an automatic loop drawing coupled with calculations, in a single application. This integrated program acts as a “live model,” simultaneously and instantly updating the drawing and calculations based on any changes made within the program.

AHR Expo President, Clay Stevens stated, “The purpose of offering this special recognition is to encourage the development of creative and useful HVACR products, and we are proud to recognize Wrightsoft’s superior achievement in this regard.”

“Right-Radiant allows the contractor to create a higher quality design, easier, faster, and more accurate than in the past,” stated Chris Edgren, Wrightsoft’s Vice President of Sales. “This represents a major advance for the HVAC professional. Right-Radiant will allow contractors to vastly reduce drawing time, produce accurate CAD-quality loop designs complete with an automatically generated bill of materials and sales proposal, while eliminating the need for other products, such as AutoCAD. Ultimately, Right-Radiant assists contractors by increasing their sales and productivity with a superior level of quality in design that cannot be afforded otherwise.”

LEXINGTON, MA, October 18, 2004–Wrightsoft Corporation was recently recognized for excellence in product design in the first annual Dealer Design Awards Program sponsored by The Air Conditioning Heating & Refrigeration News magazine. An independent panel of 13 contractors acted as judges in the contest that had 119 entries from over 75 manufacturers. For its innovative design, the judges enthusiastically selected Wrightsoft’s Right-Proposal™ as the gold medal winner in the Contractor Services and Software category.

News Publisher John Conrad stated, “Manufacturer design teams are coming up with unique ways to assist contractors in installation, service, and maintenance. This awards program is an ideal way for our magazine to call attention to products that are designed with the installing dealer in mind.” Winning entries in the Dealer Design Awards were featured in the July 19, 2004 issue of The News, which is distributed nationally to over 32,000 HVACR contractors, wholesalers, and other industry professionals.

“We are honored to receive this award, being selected by actual contractors helps to validate the program’s effectiveness in the market,” said Chris Edgren, Wrightsoft’s Vice President of Sales. With the automated linking capabilities throughout Right-Suite®, Right-Proposal links to the user’s custom parts, assemblies, costs, and detailed customer information. And best of all, through its easy-to-use format, controlled by a customizable word-programming interface, all information is compiled to create professional sales proposals and presentations. Our customers consistently report that Right-Proposal truly impresses their clientele, allowing them to outsell their competition, and eliminate the need for additional products.”