Dowdey, Anderson & Associates, Inc. Chooses Silver Peak Systems for WAN Acceleration

Silver Peak Systems, the leader in scalable Wide Area Network (WAN) acceleration, announced that Dowdey, Anderson & Associates, Inc. (DAA), the leading civil engineering firm based in Dallas, selected Silver Peak NX appliances to improve the performance of AutoCAD 2D designs and 3D models across the WAN. DAA is leveraging Silver Peak’s unique network optimization capabilities to improve collaboration among employees and save bandwidth costs... 

A Better Way to Clean

Tornado’s new Marathon Carpetrinser family of upright extractors has a vertical design to minimize storage needs and improve mobility and operation. These systems have variable psi: 100 without heat, 200 with heat, and 400 with Tornado’s exclusive Perfect Heat system. With the Perfect Heat system, the vacuum motors heat the water/cleaning solution, which is then fed into the unit’s heating system, producing temperatures up to 212... 

DNF Security Unveils Robust Portable IP Surveillance Systems to Handle Off-Site and Remote Monitoring Applications

DNF Security, a Dynamic Network Factory (DNF) business unit and provider of mission-critical IP surveillance solutions, today at the Global Gaming Expo (G2E) unveiled the JetX Portable series of all-in-one surveillance systems for mobile, off-site monitoring and recording. The JetX product family includes three models with one to three built-in LCD displays. The triple-display model will be available for demonstration in DNF Security’s booth,... 

Pentair Divests Spa and Bath Business, Further Concentrates on Pool Equipment Business

Pentair, Inc. announced that it has agreed to sell its Spa and Bath business to Balboa Water Group in a cash transaction. “This sale enables us to concentrate more fully on growth in our core global pool equipment business,” said Pentair Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Randall J. Hogan. “Pool equipment continues to be an attractive platform for Pentair, and we are focused on continuing to deliver industry-changing innovation, such as our... 

LEEDing the Charge: Downtown Seattles 901 Fifth Avenue Building Achieves LEED-EB SilverTM Certification

RREEF Real Estate and Kennedy Wilson today announced that 901 Fifth Avenue in Seattle, WA, a 41-story 558,607 sq. ft office tower has achieved LEED-EB™ (existing building) Silver certification. The certification marks the completion of one of the largest environmental retrofits in the industry for an existing property and Seattle’s first full city block targeting LEED certification. The new ownership and management of Seattle’s 901 Fifth Avenue... 

NAPCO Reports First Quarter Results for Fiscal 2009

NAPCO Security Systems, Inc. one of the world’s leading suppliers of high performance electronic security equipment for over 30 years, today announced financial results for its first quarter ended September 30, 2008. Net sales for the first quarter ended September 30, 2008 were $17,483,000, an increase of 26% compared to $13,876,000 reported for the same quarter a year earlier. Operating income for the quarter was $830,000, an increase of 3% from... 

Kathy Ireland Home by Martin Furniture IMES385 Espacio Essentials Workstation

Kathy Ireland Home by Martin Furniture IMES385 The Espacio Essentials Workstation is stylish and sturdy, yet compact enough to fit in the smallest office space! The convenient keyboard tray converts easily to a pencil drawer by simply unlatching a hinge, and is wide enough to store a laptop. One letter size file drawer, one utility drawer drawer

Kelowna Selects Canadian Locker for Largest Civic Indoor Water Park

Canadian Locker Company, Ltd., a subsidiary of American Locker Group Incorporated, announced today that the City of Kelowna, BC has selected the Statesman storage lockers for its new $46 million Mission Recreation Park Aquatic Centre. When it opens in April 2009, it will be the largest civic indoor water park in Canada. The Mission Recreation Park Aquatic Centre, located near the Capital News Centre on Gordon Drive, will be a 8,920 square meter (96,000... 

OpernTurm, Frankfurt, Germany. Crane-free operations facilitate working processes

The Frankfurt skyline is currently being re-defined: on one of the most beautiful locations in Germany directly opposite the Alte Oper, the so-called OpernTurm is steadily rising to reach its planned height of 170 metres. 52, 000 square metres of office space is spread over 43 floors with an additional 10, 000 m² in the adjacent seven-storey podium building. The development of this inner-city large-scale construction site is associated with enormously... 

Envision Solar Creates LifeVillage(TM) Modular Structures with Self-Contained Electricity and Water Treatment for Use in Areas with Limited Infrastructure

Envision Solar International announces the launch of its latest product designed to integrate clean power into buildings and communities. Envision Solar is claiming a trademark of the term and design of the LifeVillage™, a modular self-contained “infrastructure in a crate” that can provide critical utilities in even the most remote areas of the planet. A demonstration project featuring the LifeVillage™ is planned for installation in Cote d’Ivoire,...