The Dero Bike Rack Company manufacturers a wide range of bicycle storage products, including high-capacity racks, secure racks, and custom-designed racks for schools, office buildings, parks, and other facilities.
Cambridge Sound Management’s Oasis QT uses a narrow range of frequencies to mask speech in open-office settings where privacy is necessary, such as call centers or banks.
Liberty Valley Doors uses reclaimed wood from demolished buildings to create entryways and doors. Reclaimed glulams are incorporated into the stiles and rails to provide additional dimensional stability. The MDF cores are made from 100 percent recovered wood and use the non-formaldehyde binder methyl diisocyanate (MDI). The units are held together with nontoxic polyvinyl acetate (PVA) glue.
Silk Dynasty offers wallcoverings made from Abaca—a banana-plant fiber—that is processed by hand, woven on hand looms, and held together with cotton thread. Abaca is a rapidly renewable plant that can be harvested several times a year, and it’s grown without synthetic fertilizer or pesticides.
Altus Group’s CarbonCast insulated wall panels use epoxy-coated carbon-fiber trusses that allow thinner concrete skins, reducing cement use and increasing the amount of insulation that can be accommodated in a given wall thickness.
The Eco Waterless Urinal is a porcelain waterless urinal that uses an elastic check valve instead of a liquid sealant. The valve unrolls when liquid is draining—then rolls back up again, providing a sanitary seal. It allows flow rates as low as an intermittent drip, but also permits rinse water to flush right through.
The Ecoblue Cube is a small urinal block that eliminates the need to flush most urinals (except during routine cleaning), providing an alternative to upgrading to high-efficiency models. Containing naturally occurring bacteria, water softeners, perfume, and biodegradable surfactants, it forms an invisible biofilm over a urinal’s surface and trapway that breaks down uric acid, eliminates odor, and...
The base component of CertainTeed’s five families of Ecophon fiberglass acoustic ceilings is made with over 70 percent post-consumer glass bottles and jars. Most Ecophon panels have passed California’s indoor air quality standard (01350) and have been placed on the Low-emitting Materials Table by the Collaborative for High Performance Schools (CHPS).
LiveRoof is a green roof system that uses 100 percent pre-consumer recycled polypropylene planting modules. They come pre-filled with an engineered growing medium and pre-planted with drought-resistant flora chosen on the basis of client preference and local growing conditions.
The Kohler company’s dual-flush, elongated-bowl Escale has a two-button actuator—for either a 1.6-gallon or a 0.8-gallon gravity-flush—on the slim tank lid of the European-contemporary toilet. Even the seat is genteel, with a non-slamming Quiet-Close feature.
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