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1/9/2012
NEW CASTLE, DEL.—Showerhead maker Speakman Company has named Blake Snow new director of sales, Commercial & Hospitality. Snow joins Speakman from Kohler Company where he served in many different capacities, including regional manager, director of marketing for Global Faucets and most recently as director of sales & marketing for Mark David custom contract furniture. His background in plumbing and recent knowledge and experience with the hospitality market will be a key asset to Speakman.
1/3/2012
SARASOTA, FLA.—Rainwater Warehouse has launched a new website offering a complete range of rainwater harvesting systems and products. According to principal, Jack Burden, Rainwater Warehouse provides a complete range of residential and commercial rainwater harvesting products. The company offers packaged solutions directly to green build developers, builders and homeowners. They also provide commercial grade rainwater harvesting components to builders and owners of commercial properties.
12/21/2011
PARIS—Accor recently decided to assess its environmental impact 15 years after it took a stand and started taking concrete action to embrace sustainable development. The company began working on gauging its environmental footprint at the end of 2010. The study stretches beyond measuring greenhouse-gas emissions to encompass energy and water consumption, water pollution and waste generation throughout lifecycles in the Group. “Four thousand and two hundred hotels in 90 countries, 145,000 employees, 56 million breakfasts a year and almost 545 million liters of water a year all add up to the environmental impact that we are now in a position to quantify, share openly and ultimately use to hone in on the most efficient and effective levers to build our corporate social and environmental responsibility strategy,” said Accor CEO Denis Hennequin. “Our goal is to build sustainable development into the core of our Group’s performance and embark it on a continuous improvement drive to reinvent hospitality for the long term.”
12/20/2011
ALPHARETTA, GA.—Hansgrohe, the kitchen and bath manufacturer and its designer brand Axor, are heading into 2012 with a new, multi-interface website. In addition to a new design, the site offers a “Hansgrohe PRO” portal, which caters to the needs of architects, designers and trade. It will also incorporate helpful and interactive features such as design and trend ideas, planning programs, a “Water Savings Calculator,” an enhanced “Shopfinder,” as well as easy “point and click” access to the company’s social media pages and feeds.
12/12/2011
SAN LUIS OBISPO, CALIF.—ClearWater Tech, a manufacturer of ozone systems for water and air purification, has launched its new EcoTex Laundry System website. The new site represents ClearWater Tech’s commitment to the growing needs of their customers in the ozone laundry industry.
12/5/2011
VISTA, CALIF.—A survey conducted in late October 2011 asked facility managers a variety of questions regarding no-water or waterless urinal systems. Forty-two managers who have waterless urinals installed in their buildings completed the survey. Most manage office buildings, while the others are responsible for universities and colleges.
12/5/2011
FRANKLIN PARK, ILL.—Sloan has launched a two-piece, tank-type gravity toilet line. The Gravity Series 9000 toilets, available in single- and dual-flush models, offer another water-saving flushing option for light commercial installations.
12/1/2011
SYRACUSE, N.Y.—November 17 was a day to celebrate for Syracuse, N.Y.-based Woodbine Group. It was then that the company learned that its Hotel Skyler had earned LEED Platinum certification from the U.S. Green Building Council. LEED Platinum is a rare feat as only two other hotels in the United States—the Proximity Hotel in Greensboro, N.C., and the Bardessono in Yountville, Calif.—have earned the designation. According to Lynee Sauer, business manager for Woodbine Group, the road to LEED Platinum was more than a year and a half long; the company first registered for LEED on March 24, 2009. “It feels really good to have gone through the process,” Sauer says. “We took a piece of Syracuse’s history and reclaimed it,” adds Tom Fernandez, director of marketing and product development for Woodbine Group.
11/30/2011
ANN ARBOR, MICH.—NSF International, a global public health and environmental organization, has published the first American national standard for commercial and residential on-site water reuse treatment systems, NSF/ANSI 350. The new standard complements NSF’s expanding scope of environmental standards and sustainable product standards, which help establish criteria for and clear methods of evaluating environmental and sustainable product claims.
11/29/2011
NEW CASTLE, DEL.—Speakman Company introduces its newest Sensorflo faucets. The faucets feature a modern angled design and an above counter mixer integrated into the faucet body. By integrating the above counter mixer into the faucet body, the faucets have increased vandal resistance needed for high traffic facilities.
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