ALPHARETTA, GA.—BEST WESTERN PLUS The Inn at King of Prussia, a 168-room property owned and operated by RWK Enterprises, Inc., has completed a furniture refinishing and armoire conversion project led by The Refinishing Touch. Within 30 days, The Refinishing Touch restored headboards, nightstands, side chairs, benches, desks, micro fridge cabinets and armoires in 100 rooms throughout the establishment.With 2,500 square feet of meeting space added in 2011 and only 20 miles from Philadelphia, BEST WESTERN PLUS The Inn at King of Prussia caters to a large audience of corporate professionals. The most recent furniture renovations were a result of...

HIGH POINT, N.C.—Mitchell Gold, co-founder/chairman of the home furnishings manufacturing and retail brand Mitchell Gold + Bob Williams, announced that the company has become the first corporate sponsor to reach the top level of the Sustainable Furnishings Council corporate sponsor program by donating $10,000. The Sustainable Furnishings Council is a nonprofit balanced coalition of industry players founded in High Point, N.C. in 2006 to promote sustainable and safe practices among manufacturers, retailers, and consumers alike. Gold is one of the board members responsible for bringing the idea of a corporate sponsorship program to the SFC board back in February...

SANTA CRUZ,  CALIF.—LittleFootprint Lighting, a pioneer of sustainably designed LED task lighting products made in the United States from recycled e-waste, announced the installation of its HeronLED Personal Task Lights in all 120 guestrooms in Seattle’s Hotel 1000. Known for its hi-tech, eco-friendly rooms and on Condé Nast Traveler’s Gold List 2013, Hotel 1000 purchased the desk lamps to provide better lighting for guests while reducing energy costs and demonstrating its commitment to sustainability and green jobs in the United States.The HeronLED Personal Task Light is the first made-in-USA LED desk lamp to earn the Energy Star and is...

CROSSVILLE, TENN.—Crossville Inc., a domestic porcelain tile manufacturer based in Crossville, Tenn., has diverted a total of 24 million pounds of porcelain from landfills since launching its Tile Take-Back program and TOTO USA recycling partnership. Both initiatives are based on Crossville’s proprietary process for recycling fired porcelain products, including post-consumer materials.Between both Tile Take-Back and the TOTO USA partnership, Crossville achieved the following in 2012: •    Recycled more than 5,550,354 pounds of fired tile produced at the company’s plants that would have previously gone to landfills; •    Received and processed more than 60,560 pounds of tile including scraps and post-consumer...

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Gensler, a global design firm with more than 3,700 professionals in 43 locations on four continents, has joined the Urban Land Institute (ULI) Greenprint Center for Building Performance as its newest innovation partner. Greenprint is a worldwide alliance of leading real estate owners, investors and financial institutions committed to improving the environmental performance of the global property industry, with a focus on improving energy efficiency and reducing carbon emissions.Gensler’s work reflects an enduring commitment to sustainability, and the firm is a global leader in green design. The firm approaches every project as an opportunity to enhance building, organizational,...

SAN DIEGO—Kirei’s new recycled millwork panel collection illustrates the phrase “one man’s trash is another’s treasure.” The Pacific Coastal Collection redwood and blue pine millwork panels are built using falloff from flooring or casework manufacture and waste wood from beetle-killed pine trees from across the western United States. The result is a set of design materials that turn industrial waste components into new eco-friendly interior design looks.“The material no one wants is our gold—to us it’s where the real beauty lies,” says John Stein, Kirei owner.To make the Pacific Coastal Collection, discarded redwood falloff pieces are planed to shape...

SEARCHLIGHT, NEV.—Cottonwood Cove Resort and Marina on Lake Mohave has made history, becoming the world’s first floating green building to receive LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) Gold certification from the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC). Spearheaded by the National Park Service and Forever Resorts, LLC, the marina building opened June 2011, serving as the marina’s operations office.From decking made of rice hulls to exterior stucco made of recycled tires, from the beginning, the marina was lauded for its use of green materials. The floating eco-friendly structure features sustainable modular construction and state-of-the-art energy-efficient and environmentally responsible materials...

FARMINGTON, N.Y.—Crafted entirely in the United States by Pioneer Millworks, their new wide version of Eco-Friendly Engineered wood is available in a variety of reclaimed species and grades up to 10” wide, pre-finished or unfinished.“Since our customers have increasingly requested engineered options, we decided to do something (green) about it,” explains Pioneer Millworks general manager, Jennifer Young. “Not only are we increasing the yield of rarest, most expensive products, we’re driving the price down.”The new line of eco-friendly engineered products provides the wider look of solid antique wood yet can be applied over concrete slabs and in subterranean spaces....

CALHOUN, GA.—Mannington Commercial, a leader in commercial flooring, announces the launch of the 2012 NeoCon Gold-award winning Vivendi Collection of broadloom and modular carpet. A new direction in performance flooring, the collection was designed in collaboration with HOK Product Design to elevate healthcare, retail, corporate and education spaces into new design territory.Inspired by striated artisan tile and fractal geometrics with an organic twist, the three patterns in the collection—Montage, Teres and Circ—create a warm, modern, and luxurious aesthetic. The carpet collection was developed as part of a coordinating, cross-platform family of products that includes privacy curtains from Pallas Textiles...

SINGAPORE—Asian hospitality chain Meritus Hotels & Resorts (MHR) has signed a Memorandum of Agreement with Funtasy Island Development (FID) Pte Ltd for the management of a deluxe resort development comprising a 200-room condotel, a 230-suite hotel, and an aggregate of 413-unit villas on Funtasy Island—envisioned to be the largest eco theme park and the first gated island community in the world.Located on Riau Islands, Indonesia and slated to open in 2014, Funtasy Island will house hotel suites and villas complementing retail, convention, dining and recreational facilities—all spread over 810 acres of pristine tropical islands situated between Batam and Singapore.Sixteen...