Metal Building Installation Opportunities Offered by VersaTube Building Systems
VersaTube® Building Systems has announced the launch of a new Authorized Installer Program designed to link local contractors with building installation experience to its customers in need of installation services. For many licensed construction contractors and handymen, this program represents an opportunity to add a new revenue stream in an otherwise challenging economic market. Because steel frame components have been pre-engineered, pre-cut,...
Echelon Accelerates Enterprise Energy Management Momentum
Echelon Corporation announced broad support for Enterprise Energy Management solutions (EEM) based on Echelon’s technology. EEM encompasses multi-site energy management solutions that deliver cost savings and operational improvements to quick-service restaurants (QSR), schools, banks, retail and convenience stores, data centers and other locations. Based on Echelon’s LonWorks® control networking technology, and featuring the new i.LON® SmartServer...
Echelon and ROMlight Smart Lighting System Reduces Energy Use
Echelon Corporation and ROMlight International, Inc. announced the first installation in Canada of a high bay lighting system featuring LonWorks® control networking technology to provide smart, two-way communicating lights. The new solution installed at the Kelly Western Services Ltd. aircraft hangar in Winnipeg uses energy efficient, individually dimmable lights to cut energy use by over 60 percent, or over 250,000 kWh per year. Combined with rebate...
Wildeck Unveils Breakthrough MezzCrane™ System
Wildeck, Inc. selected the ProMat 2009 International Exposition (Booth 1244) to unveil an innovative and new material handling and storage solution known as the MezzCrane™. Working in collaboration with crane manufacturer, Gorbel in Fishers, NY, Wildeck engineers developed an innovative configuration that can be customized to meet individual customer needs. Heralded as an industry first, Wildeck’s new MezzCrane™ system has been designed...
Office Depot is First Retailer to Receive LEED Gold Certification from U.S. Green Building Council
Office Depot, a leading global provider of office products and services, today announced that its “Green” retail store prototype has received a Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Gold Certification from the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC). The USGBC’s LEED system is widely recognized as the benchmark for green building design, construction, operations and maintenance. Office Depot received the Gold Rating for the Company’s...
Alcoa Announces Winner of “Count the Can” Contest Held at GreenBuild
When Michael Schwartz, an Eco-Solutionist for Waste Management, Inc.’s Green Squad unit, attended the Greenbuild Conference and Expo in Boston a couple of weeks ago, his goal was to see if aluminum could help the movie industry go greener. He didn’t expect to also win an Apple iMac encased in recyclable aluminum. But he did. Schwartz was one of hundreds of visitors who stopped at the Alcoa booth to discuss aluminum as a green building material....
The Allen Group to Develop a Build-to-Suit Container Yard at Dallas Logistics Hub
The Allen Group, developers of the Dallas Logistics Hub (DLH), a 6,000-acre multi-modal logistics park in Southern Dallas County, announced today an execution of a lease with Bridge Terminal Transport (BTT), one of the largest marine container haulers covering all major port locations and inland rail sites within the United States. BTT is a market leader in worldwide container services, agency, logistics and terminal activities. The company will relocate...
AT&T Unwraps New Store Design in Warwick
AT&T Inc.is providing customers in Rhode Island a new way to experience and shop for wireless communications and entertainment services at its new cutting-edge store in Warwick. This store, located in the Warwick Mall is the only one of its kind in Rhode Island. “We are thrilled to have our new store ready for the holidays,” said Steve Krom, vice president and general manager of AT&T in New England. “Our customers crave new...
On the Cusp of Black Friday, Colliers International Issues Semi-Annual Retail Report, Showing Marked Weakness in Retail Real Estate as 2009 Approaches
The U.S. retail market has undergone a sea change not experienced in this country since the early 1980s, according to the bi-annual Retail Real Estate Report issued today by Colliers International, a leading global real estate services firm. Due to recessionary conditions, retail real estate will be significantly afflicted for the remainder of this year and well into 2009, according to Colliers. Several reasons drive this monumental slowdown in retail...
Luxury Institute Survey: Vacation Homes and Exotic Vacations Luxury Experiences of Choice for Wealthy U.S. Consumers
Wealthy U.S. consumers report that owning a vacation home is the item they most desire, and taking exotic vacations is their most sought-after luxury experience, according to a Luxury Institute survey of U.S. consumers with average household income of $332,000 and average net-worth of $3.3 million. The study was developed with Resonance Consultancy Ltd. According to the survey, wealthy U.S. consumers place more importance on experiences such as owning...
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