Michael W. Rodriguez joined SchenkelShultz Architecture in Orlando, Fla., as a senior project manager serving as part of the firm’s greater Orlando aviation authority general consultant team. Rodriguez is a registered architect and a registered interior designer in the state of Florida and has more than 35 years of architecture experience, including more than 10 years of aviation design.
Energy Focus Inc. introduces its new tubular LED (TLED) lamps, offering more than 150 lumens per watt to achieve energy efficiency and high performance. The new 4-foot 500D series tube uses 11 watts of power, reducing lighting energy consumption by more than 60 percent from a typical fluorescent T8 at approximately 28 watts, and nearly 75 percent over T12 at approximately 40 watts. The new 200D, 300D and 500D series products that aim to replace fluorescent lamps include 2-foot and 4-foot TLEDs with color temperatures ranging from warm white to cool white.
In commercial buildings, energy efficiency is the simplest and most cost-effective way to reduce energy use and greenhouse gas emissions, according to the North American Insulation Manufacturers Association. The association notes that insulation currently in place in U.S. buildings reduces the amount of carbon dioxide by 780 million tons each year.
WASHINGTON — Roger Platt, senior vice president of global policy and law for the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC), is taking over the council’s president position, according to an Oct. 2 announcement.
WASHINGTON — The design of an office building significantly affects worker health, wellbeing and productivity, according to a new report.
The report, “Health, Wellbeing and Productivity in Offices: The Next Chapter for Green Building,” was released Sept. 24 by the World Green Building Council (WorldGBC) in Washington, D.C.
SAN FRANCISCO — Five San Francisco companies have successfully completed the first green business program in the county with training focused on custodial worker health.
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the San Francisco Department of the Environment (SF Environment) honored the five companies last month for finishing a pilot program that aims to reduce workers’ exposure to harmful chemicals typically used in cleaning operations. A $74,500 EPA pollution prevention grant funded the program.
Civilight North America appointed Dennis Picklesimer as vice president of sales for the company. In this newly created position, Picklesimer will oversee regional sales managers across the country, each focusing on a targeted geographic region. Picklesimer brings to the new position more than 30 years of experience in the electrical and lighting industries, including senior leadership roles at LumenOptix, Stellar Sales Inc., Simkar Corporation and The Electric Shop.
MaxLite introduced the Wet-Listed Marquee LED Lamp. The 2.5-watt LED lamp is ETL wet-listed and designed to replace inefficient incandescent and cold-cathode fluorescent (CCFL) lamps for outdoor signage applications at hotels, casinos, restaurants, resorts and amusement parks. The LED lamp uses a nominal 2.5 watts as a retrofit for standard incandescent, which consumes 11 watts, and CCFLs that typically consume three watts, which can result in an immediate reduction in power consumption by 16 to 77 percent or more.
Parsippany, N.J. — At Lexus’ eastern training facility in Parsippany, an old warehouse has been transformed into a state-of-the-art sustainable space.
DENTON, Texas — After three years of research, experts at the University of North Texas (UNT) believe they have found a plant-based material that is cost-efficient to manufacture and capable of significantly reducing energy consumption.
