The carpenter
A fully qualified carpenter reads a system through materials, set-out, tolerances, access, sequencing and what a competent crew can actually build.
Next Generation Hoardings
Installation Guide
A founder’s field note
The system started on site. The software came next.
Jack Pridham founded Next Generation Hoardings from practical installation experience, a carpenter’s understanding of how work gets built and a web developer’s instinct to connect the information around every job.
Trade fully qualified carpenter
Site practical hoarding installation
Software web-development background
Jack Pridham / founder
Built by someone who understands both the install and the information behind it.
Jack Pridham is the founder of Next Generation Hoardings. He brings practical hoarding-installation experience, is a fully qualified carpenter and also has a background as a web developer.
Those disciplines meet in NXGN. Carpentry gives the system a build-first point of view. Hoarding work keeps it grounded in the realities of live projects. Web development makes it possible to improve the planning, pricing and administration that surround the physical installation.
Three views of the same job
Trade judgement, site experience and software thinking.
The installer
Practical hoarding experience keeps the design focused on measured runs, doors, returns, finishes, counterweights and the conditions around installation night.
The web developer
A software background turns repeated hand-offs into a connected workflow for plans, quantities, quotes, schedules, communication and accounts.
More than ten years in shopping-centre hoardings
Live retail teaches you to think beyond the line on the drawing.
NXGN’s public experience spans more than ten years of shopping-centre hoarding work. In a live centre, the temporary wall sits inside someone else’s operating environment: customers keep walking, centre teams keep coordinating, fit-out programmes change and the tenancy still needs access, presentation and a reliable handover.
That experience informs the questions NXGN asks before delivery—about the lease line, doors and egress, working windows, loading access, floor protection, branding, installer requirements, alterations and removal.
- Plan the public interface as well as the construction work behind it
- Resolve access, door swings and changes in direction before installation
- Coordinate delivery and working windows around the live environment
- Separate the physical system, labour, engineering and documentation scope
- Prepare for alterations, handover and removal rather than only day one
Capability without a proprietary installer licence
A useful system should create more competent installers, not protect a closed network.
Next Generation Hoardings is a completely open-source physical system. It makes the system information available to competent installers without requiring a proprietary installation-network licence fee. The aim is to let capable local businesses understand the system, build knowledge and choose how they deliver work.
The boundary is deliberate. Open access to the information does not make steel, panels or skins, compatible counterweights, freight, labour, consumables, engineering, certification or hire free. Those are real commercial and project inputs.
- Open: documented physical-system and installation information
- No proprietary installer licence fee for competent teams to access that information
- Commercial: components, face materials, freight, labour and hire
- Project-specific: engineering, certification, approvals, inductions and competent installation
Practical independence
Choice at the face, the weight stack and the installer.
Panels or skins
Next Generation Hoardings is the only system engineered for both rigid panels and flexible skins, so the finish can follow the site and delivery model.
Standard counterweights
Suitable compatible temporary-fencing counterweights can be sourced through common trade and fencing channels after quantity and compatibility are checked.
Installer choice
Use a competent local team, ask NXGN to deliver the project or have NXGN help find a suitable installer for the location.
The software came from repeated project hand-offs
Draw it, price it, pack it, schedule it and invoice it without rebuilding the job story.
VXApp is the paid operating platform behind NXGN’s connected workflow. It can carry customer and site context into 2D planning, 3D visualisation, automatic materials calculations, packing checklists, quotes, purchase orders, projects and calendars.
The same operating layer continues into messages, email templates and attachments; invoices, deposits, GST, payments and reconciliation; recurring quotes; contracts and signatures; assets, products, orders, bookings, hire operations and business administration.
- Customer-specific rates, job types and service descriptions
- Per-linear-metre, per-square-metre, fixed and hire pricing
- 2D plans, 3D presentation, dimensions and calculated materials
- Quotes, recurring work, purchase orders, projects and schedules
- Messages, templates, contracts, invoices, payments and reconciliation
- Assets, products, orders, bookings, banking, users and permissions
Australia-wide service model
Open knowledge locally. Hire and installation nationally.
NXGN can coordinate hire and installation Australia wide and help find a suitable installer, with location, availability, programme and final commercial scope confirmed for every project.
Project planning
Turn site geometry, finish, access, working hours and supplied items into a clearer scope.
Component fulfilment
Coordinate system hire or supply, freight, collection and the responsibilities around each component.
Installer matching
Help identify a suitable installer when NXGN is not the closest delivery team for the location.
Managed installation
Plan delivery, installation, project changes, documentation, handover and removal as an agreed service.
What NXGN is trying to improve
Less lock-in. Better project context. More time on useful work.
The physical system is opened so competent installers can build capability. The service offer is broad enough to help a centre, builder or contractor move from initial brief through installation and removal. The paid software exists so operators can focus on winning and installing work instead of stitching together a different tool for every hand-off.
NXGN does not replace project judgement. Site conditions, engineering, certification, approvals, competent installation and commercial scope still need to be understood on every job. The aim is to give those decisions a clearer system and a connected record.
About NXGN
Who founded Next Generation Hoardings?
Jack Pridham founded NXGN. He has practical hoarding-installation experience, is a fully qualified carpenter and has a web-development background.
How much shopping-centre hoarding experience informs the business?
NXGN’s supported public copy reflects more than ten years of shopping-centre hoarding experience.
Is NXGN only a software company?
No. NXGN covers the physical hoarding system, open installation knowledge, component hire and project services. VXApp is the separate paid operating platform.
Does NXGN work Australia wide?
NXGN offers Australia-wide installation and hire coordination and can help find a suitable installer, subject to project location, availability, programme and scope.
What does open source mean here?
Competent installers can access the physical-system information without a proprietary installation licence fee. Hardware, materials, freight, labour, engineering, certification, hire and the VXApp platform remain commercial or project-specific.
Next step
Bring Jack the project problem—or the operating problem behind it.
Talk with NXGN about a shopping-centre hoarding, Australia-wide hire or installation, installer matching, the open system or the connected VXApp workflow.