CLEVELAND, OHIO—Hasek Communications, the Cleveland, Ohio-based publisher of Green Lodging News, welcomes Greenview as a Green Product & Service Directory partner. Greenview works with meeting and event planners to develop, implement, measure, and report out sustainable event programs. Greenview helps events set overall strategies for their sustainability programs and then carry them out credibly through applying frameworks such as ISO 20121, the APEX/ASTM Green Meetings Standards, and the Global Reporting Initiative Event Organizers Sector Supplement. Call Cara Unterkofler, Director, Sustainable Event Programs, Greenview, at (571) 210-2272, or e-mail cara@gviewadvisors.com.Greenview also specializes in guiding hospitality and tourism companies through the...

DELRAY BEACH, FLA.—Taft Durst Inc., a Delray Beach, Fla.-based company that does business as Vet LEDs, announced the formal launch of the Veterans Lighting Initiative. The CEO of Vet LEDs, Randy M. Durst, a Vietnam veteran, created the concept after reading a news article about the difficulty veterans were having getting good jobs in today’s economic climate. “It occurred to me that hiring veterans to install LED lighting was a no-brainer,” Durst says. Over the course of the next two years, hundreds of thousands of military servicemen and women will be returning to a very uncertain future as they...

WEST CALDWELL, N.J.—MaxLite introduces the LED Round Flat Panel Pendant, which recently received Lighting for Tomorrow’s Honorable Mention in the Solid-State Lighting (SSL) Residential Lighting Products Design Competition and has been added to the FlatMax family of LED Flat Panels. The LED Round Flat Panel Pendant can be cable-hung or surface mounted easily in offices, hospitality and retail environments, and other spaces that demand sophistication.“Our LED Round Pendant is an aesthetically pleasing, decorative fixture that delivers style, technology and functional lighting levels in a variety of applications,” said MaxLite’s director of product marketing Pat Treadway. “Still very new to...

SOUTHAMPTON, PA.—Commercial customers are saving 5 to 12 percent on water utility bills with a new Conservation Water Valve. A Pennsylvania energy consulting company is helping large water users nationwide reduce rising water bills at the source. Their patented valve is designed to slow water turbulence and compress air. The air in the pipes is plentiful, and for heavy users can equate to thousands or tens of thousands every month. This costly air serves no benefit, it is never requested and there won’t be a refund.Many are surprised to find that every building owner nationwide is faced with the...

NEW CASTLE, PA.—Berner International Corp., a leading U.S. manufacturer and innovator of air curtains, expanded its In-Ceiling Mount (ICM) Series by adding the FCB, the HVAC industry’s first in-ceiling flush mount air curtain rated for doorways with up to 16-foot-high ceilings in hotels, hospitals, office buildings, schools and other commercial facilities.Efficient one-hp motors combined with Berner’s proprietary Pro-V Nozzle design, which generates 50 percent more velocity at the floor versus standard ceiling mount units, makes the FCB’s 16-foot range possible. The improved velocity also allows for lower speed operation resulting in up to half the decibel ratings and energy...

HAILEY, IDAHO—Rocky Mountain Hardware, a leading manufacturer of solid bronze architectural hardware, is entering into a collaboration with Olin Brass to produce antimicrobial copper surface hardware.In announcing the relationship, Christian Nickum, Rocky Mountain’s CEO, said, “This represents a major leap for us. We’ll be marking our 20th anniversary in 2014, and this opens the door to a whole new category of business with the wellness industry where architectural hardware needs can now be answered not only with a distinctive aesthetic and proven Made in America quality product, but also with a new generation surface recognized by the U.S. EPA...

ATLANTA—Tools and techniques for measuring, managing and improving the performance of a facility as demonstrated by its energy and water use and indoor environmental quality, are contained in a new ASHRAE guide.“This is the book that facility managers, building operators, technicians, consultants, commissioning authorities, architects and design engineers need to ensure that their buildings are green, energy efficient, highly productive, healthy and attractive to others,” said Jim Bochat, chair of the project committee that wrote the book. “This guide gives building owners and their consultants the practical performance measurement guidance to meet market demands for keeping operating costs down...

CLEVELAND, OHIO—Hasek Communications, the Cleveland, Ohio-based publisher of Green Lodging News, welcomes Green Suites Hotel Solutions as a Green Product & Service Directory partner. Green Suites Hotel Solutions offers amenity dispensers in four different designs. Dispensers offer savings from 30 to 70 percent when compared to traditional bottles and bars. Dispensers are available with high quality, name brand products (pre-filled or bulk) such as Sonoma, Paya, Aromaland, Scan, and Natura. Green Suites Hotel Solutions’ EcoSense Dispenser Program is a no-cost capital program that reduces dispenser costs to just pennies per occupied room per day.Call (800) 224-4451, e-mail sales@greensuites.com, or...

FRANKLIN PARK, ILL.—The wall-mount model of the BASYS faucet platform, now available from Sloan, is ideal for restrooms in high-end commercial environments, including hotels, restaurants, resorts and spas. The new wall-mount faucet is part of the BASYS platform of modular, sensor-activated faucets with advanced, interchangeable features and selectable operational modes.Options for the BASYS wall-mount faucet include:Three spray modules: Choose from different flow rates: a low-flow multi-laminar spray (0.5 gallon per minute), full stream aerated, and a full stream laminar flow (1.5 gpm), which has a wide water presentation unlike any other sensor faucet.Unique installation: The spout attaches directly to...

GRANVILLE, OHIO—Acuity Brands, Inc. introduces Wallpack LED luminaires from Holophane that deliver up to 6,500 lumens while reducing energy consumption by as much as 77 percent compared to traditional lighting units. Ideal for replacing 35-watt to 400-watt metal halide fixtures, Wallpack LED luminaires are designed with the same classic appearance that made the Wallpack line popular. Wallpack LED fixtures are offered in two styles with die-cast aluminum housing: W4G with prismatic glass lens and W4P with a polycarbonate lens for lower mounting heights requiring vandal resistance.Available with 10, 20 or 30 LEDs, Wallpack LED luminaires employ individual optics over...