New Online Store Takes Aim at Fulfilling Your Every Wrought Iron Decorating Need

Friday, May 14th 2010
New Online Store Takes Aim at Fulfilling Your Every Wrought Iron Decorating Need

Timeless Wrought Iron has put scores of new products on the site and there is no shortage of new products to come. They have recently acquired two new major wrought iron suppliers which they will continue to add products from throughout 2010. The new website is full of furniture ideas from tables, seating, lighting and garden furniture, and features a secure online shopping cart, updated wish list feature allowing you to assemble your orders over... 

Rick Mather Architects’ Virginia Museum of Fine Arts $150 Million

Thursday, May 13th 2010
Rick Mather Architects’ Virginia Museum of Fine Arts $150 Million

Rick Mather Architects in collaboration with a Richmond-based firm SMBW Architects had delivered their project of $150m site wide masterplan and expansion of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (VMFA). This expansion has made the VMFA as one of the ten largest encyclopaedic museums in the United States. The project director Alex Nyerges described this as “nothing short of spectacular.” The focus of the expansion is the atrium space where... 

Cooper Lighting Launches Security Floodlights with Advanced Doppler Technology

Wednesday, May 5th 2010
Cooper Lighting Launches Security Floodlights with Advanced Doppler Technology

Cooper Lighting, the leading provider of high-quality lighting fixtures, introduces Precision Plus Doppler Radar Motion Activated Outdoor Security Floodlights, an innovative system that uses advanced technology to deliver a wider blanket of security coverage than most motion sensors on the market can provide. Many of the motion sensor lights available today use only Passive Infrared (PIR) technology, which picks up side-to-side movement, but can... 

Plants Take Care of Themselves with New Lechuza Self-Watering Planters

Wednesday, May 5th 2010
Plants Take Care of Themselves with New Lechuza Self-Watering Planters

German manufacturer Lechuza is now offering its elegant and innovative line of self-watering planters in the United States. Using a built-in reservoir as part of a self-watering system, these planters provide water and nutrients needed to grow healthy edibles and beautiful flowering plants with virtually no effort. Unable to find a planter that met his demands, he assigned a team of his developers to create a stylish, self-watering planter. What... 

Goldman Properties Offers Addition to The Hotel of South Beach

Tuesday, April 13th 2010
Goldman Properties Offers Addition to The Hotel of South Beach

Visionary designer Todd Oldham returns to South Beach, bringing his creative genius to 20 deluxe rooms including two 2 bedroom suites at the new oceanfront addition to The Hotel of South Beach, owned by Goldman Properties. Oldham designed The Hotel’s original property, at 801 Collins Avenue, opened in 1998 to wide acclaim, and the two properties share amenities including room service provided by The Hotel’s award-winning restaurant, Wish. The... 

Aquatic Previews Groundbreaking Bathware Products for 2010 Kitchen & Bath Industry Show Next Month

Wednesday, March 24th 2010
Aquatic Previews Groundbreaking Bathware Products for 2010 Kitchen & Bath Industry Show Next Month

An attractive accessible tub that enhances any bathroom and drains 70 gallons in 30 seconds, a minimalist tub full of practical features for a spa-like experience, and a light weight, easy-and-quick assembly sectional shower for late installation or remodeling – these are among the breakthrough products that Aquatic will showcase at the 2010 Kitchen & Bath Industry Show (KBIS), April 16-18, at Chicago’s McCormick Place. Builders, remodelers,... 

Baltix Recycled and Biobased Content Office Furniture

Friday, March 19th 2010
Baltix Recycled and Biobased Content Office Furniture

Baltix commercial furniture is made with a wide range of green materials, including waste-agricultural-fiber particleboard; FSC-certified wood veneers and MDF; bamboo; and recycled plastics, metals, and paper. The company’s workstations, tables, seating, bookshelves, files, cabinets, and partitions are available with low-emitting, UV-cured clear coatings or surfacings made from natural linoleum or biobased laminate. Baltix uses biobased polylactic... 

Invelope Integrated Wall Insulation and Rainscreen System

Friday, March 19th 2010
Invelope Integrated Wall Insulation and Rainscreen System

Invelope steel and foam panels create a weather-tight backup wall system for metal-framed commercial buildings. Invelope provides a moisture and vapor barrier, drainage plane, and insulation—as well as a mounting system for brick veneer or terra cotta cladding—all in one panel system. Made from corrosion-resistant steel wrapped around a polyisocyanurate foam core and similar to Centria’s Formawall, Invelope comes in 32″-wide interlocking... 

Thermafiber Mineral Wool Insulation Products

Friday, March 19th 2010
Thermafiber Mineral Wool Insulation Products

Thermafiber makes a variety of mineral-fiber insulation products from pre-consumer recycled iron-ore slag for commercial and residential thermal, sound attenuation, and fire-resistant construction applications. Both batt and boardstock materials are available in a wide range of densities, facings, thicknesses, and R-values. Thermafiber products, according to the manufacturer, are noncombustible without flame retardants, are odor-free, will not absorb... 

Pentadyne GTX Flywheel Energy Storage

Friday, March 19th 2010
Pentadyne GTX Flywheel Energy Storage

Pentadyne’s GTX flywheel is a short-duration energy storage product used to replace batteries in uninterruptible power supply (UPS) in data centers, healthcare, manufacturing, and other commercial applications. Pentadyne utilizes a graphite-composite flywheel magnetically levitated in an argon-filled, vacuum-sealed unit to store kinetic energy for use when the normal power supply is disrupted and before a backup generator starts or power is restored....