MIRO® reflective technology improves lighting
Jun/090
MIRO® technology adds brilliance to a gymnasium at the William Paterson University in New Jersey. Read feature in Parks & Rec Business Magazine
Polished Concrete Flooring Is Clean, Green and Cost-Effective
Jun/090
Medrad, an affiliate of Bayer AG, based in Pittsburgh, Pa specifies polished concrete for thier facilities to reflect on the company’s commitment to environmental consciousness. Read feature in Pharmaceutical Manufacturing Magazine .
American City and County magazine article
Dec/080
Another nice photo of Swan Lake Park in a piece published in American City and County Magazine
Cleaning and Maintenance Magazine polished concrete maintenance
Nov/080
A polished concrete floor surface will take to “green cleaning” more easily than others and, of course, requires significantly less maintenance to stay shiny. It’s one reason why retailers are replacing vinyl composition tile with polished concrete floors. Cleaning & Maintenance Magazine published my article about the care of PC.
“You can actually walk up to the showroom and see the blue sky shining in the floor, that’s how shiny it is,” says Richard Smith, Ag-Pro’s general service manager in Arkansas, who installed the environmentally friendly floor in two of their John Deere showrooms.
Concrete floors can cost half as much to maintain as vinyl composition tile (VCT) because VCT requires the laborious process of stripping the old wax off and then hours of buffing and shining the new wax.
“Over half of the floors we install are going from tile to polished concrete,” says Joseph Urbanic, president of QuestMark Flooring.
Here’s the link to the full article in CMMonline.
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Lawn & Landscape Mag covers solar-powered street lighting
Oct/080
Swan Lake Park is one of the first public parks in the United States to specify solar-powered streetlights for a landscape application. The economic benefits were obvious to Swan Lake, but according to Lawn & Landscape magazine landscape contractors shouldn’t overlook solar-power lighting as a business opportunity either.
Contained in one of four hamlets in Liberty Township, N.Y., Swan Lake Park is one of the first of its kind in the country to use solar-powered LED lighting technology for commercial outdoor applications. The new lighting was part of a beautification project promoted by the Liberty Community Development Corp., which is funded by the local government, as well as the locally based Gerry Foundation. The effort also was part of a solar street light demonstration project co-funded by the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority.
Six 14-foot-tall, solar-powered LED streetlights installed along a pathway at Swan Lake Park were supplied by Framingham, Mass.-based SolarOne Solutions. The fixtures use round strings of small LEDs powered by photovoltaic cells. A computer regulates the system to ensure that the lights are always on.
Energy Management Canada about Maritime Academy
Oct/080
The Canadian magazine, Energy Management just published the story about Massachusetts Maritime Academy’s installation of solar-powered pathway lights.
Capt. Allen Hansen championed the alternative energy project and is vice-president of operations at the school.
We now have a beautifully lit walkway students are using extensively, day and night.
We searched for a solution that was visible to visitors and didn’t add to the footprint of the Academy. And it is visible enough, that people who visit point out to us that, ‘hey you’ve got photovoltaic lights, don’t you’.
So we can share that story with them.The SolarOne lighting really has met all of our requirements. They’re attractive, they provide a good light for our students in the areas we wanted, and they haven’t added to the expense of operations on the campus.
New England Real Estate Journal explains new technology
Jun/080
Lighting parking lots and pathways with an Shoebox-designed fixture can now be replaced with an affordable solar-powered of the same Shoebox fixture design. Affordable, because with the new technology, fewer light fixtures can achieve even better lighting results; fewer fixtures are needed to light the same area, so project costs are reduced dramatically.
Published in the New England Journal is a pretty good article that describes a new fixture design by SolarOne Solutions of Framingham, MA.
Many Shoebox design light fixtures that are now installed on campuses, institutions and commercial properties.
Benefits of landscaping with high-powered solar-powered LEDs
May/080
Take a look at how Architectural Stone and Landscape Design Magazine explains the key benefits of landscaping with high-powered solar-powered LED lights.