SAN DIEGO — As electrical vehicles continue to grow, Envision Solar International Inc., a sustainable infrastructure product designer and developer based in San Diego, launched the world’s first fully mobile, autonomous and renewable electric vehicle charging station earlier this month.
WASHINGTON — The USGBC released a new report, LEED in Motion: People and Progress, which shows that green building may represent more than half of all commercial and institutional construction by 2016. This is the first of three reports in the LEED in Motion series and it specifically examines individuals and organizations that are driving and benefitting from green building and using graphics, charts and other tools to showcase a positive outcome.
In 2012, Kevon Office Center, a 40-year-old office building in Pennsauken, N.J., received an Energy Star rating of 90, placing it among the top 10 percent for energy efficiency in buildings of its type across the country.
ALBANY, N.Y. — Yet another 21st century business school was completed this summer and debuted on Aug. 19 at the University at Albany, State University of New York (SUNY).
San Diego-based Stellar Solar, a California commercial and residential solar integrators that started in 1998, announced the addition of sales professional to its sales team. Mihelich has been a top performer in the San Diego solar industry in sales and sales management for the past five years. His hiring comes at a time when Stellar Solar is experiencing the most growth in the company’s history.
Greenheck’s Vari-Flow integrated kitchen ventilation systems allow foodservice managers and building owners to reduce energy costs by more precisely modulating exhaust and supplying airflows to match cooking operation demands. Temperature sensors located in the hoods’ capture area are directly exposed to quick changes in cooking activity, resulting in a five-times faster response to cooking load changes. This feature, coupled with fan-speed turndown of 50 percent and high-efficiency Vari-Green motors, offers total energy savings in terms of electrical, heating and cooling costs.
Kenall Lighting, a leading provider of commercial lighting solutions, added the MedMaster M4 LED surgical suite luminaire to its health care lighting product line. The new luminaire is designed to support infection control, while supporting surgical teams in the surgical suite with unprecedented lighting performance. The new surgical luminaire also outperforms fluorescent; even with fewer luminaires, higher foot candles deliver lower cost plus energy savings.
The DuPont Tyvek Fluid Applied System is now available nationwide as the newest addition to the portfolio of DuPont air and water-resistive barrier products. It can be used as a stand-alone offering or as part of an integrated system combined with DuPont Tyvek Commercial Wrap or Tyvek CommercialWrap D. DuPont is the only manufacturer of air and water-resistive barrier systems designed to work together on projects where the wall assemblies require both fluid-applied and mechanically fastened building wrap weatherization solutions.
Rich Driggs was named president of Heery International, an architecture, interior design, engineering, program management and design-build firm. Driggs is only the fourth leader of the company since George Heery founded the firm in 1952. In this role, Driggs is responsible for driving growth and overseeing the operations of the Atlanta-based company’s 22 offices around the country. He joined Heery in 2012 as the national director of construction management.
