Medical Ceiling Panels

ROCKFON Medical stone wool ceiling panels offer cleanliness, aesthetics, performance and sustainability. The panels provide a surface that is easy to clean and disinfect, while meeting health care facilities’ design goals, sustainability objectives and stringent performance requirements. The product is made from basalt rock, which provides noise reduction coefficients, fire protection with UL/ULC certification for Flame Spread and Smoke Development and dimensional stability at up to 100 percent humidity.

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Orange County Plans Sustainable Jail

ORANGE COUNTY, N.C. — Orange County recently selected Moseley Architects of Charlotte, N.C., to design the new Orange County Detention Facility. The new jail aims to improve both energy efficiency and mental health care for inmates.

While design is still in its earliest phases, the new jail will likely include a number of sustainable features and cost approximately $20 million. It will replace the current Orange County Jail, which was originally constructed in 1925.

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Carpet Tile

Desso, a Tarkett company, is the world’s first carpet tile manufacturer to achieve Cradle to Cradle gold level certification. Desso provides carpets that help to improve the learning atmosphere and contribute to health and wellbeing in the education sector in classrooms, study areas, computer laboratories, libraries and other parts of educational buildings. With Desso SoundMaster carpet, sound is reduced or absorbed, which can be a great way to improve the effectiveness of teaching and learning.

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Marin County Plans Green Hospital for 2020

GREENBRAE, Calif. — Major work is underway for an expansion at Marin General Hospital (MGH) in Greenbrae. The new $394 million hospital will replace MGH with a four-story, 260,000-square-foot hospital building; a five-story, 100,000-square-foot ambulatory services building; and two parking garages. The facility will also strive to achieve LEED Silver or LEED Gold certification upon completion in 2020. Groundbreaking for the new facility is set to take place in January 2016.

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