Product Solutions
Oct 1, 2008 12:00 PM
New Products/Case Studies
Glass replacement
Sheffield Plastics Inc.
MAKROLON 15 Polycarbonate Sheet, a glass-replacement product, offers exceptional weather ability with increased protection against tough environmental conditions and long-term UV exposure. It is lighter than glass and features insulation properties, making it a practical and cost-effective solution. It ensures product endurance with a 15-year limited warranty covering breakage, yellowing and coating integrity.
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Athletic equipment
Future Pro.
The Easy-Up Youth Goal allows students to play basketball from the official 10-foot height to lower levels for younger students. The backboard goal combination can be installed by one person over any style or make of goal and backboard. No tools are required. Schools can choose a goal that is fixed at 8 feet, 8.5 feet or 9 feet in height, or an adjustable goal that raises and lowers from 6.5 feet to 9 feet. All goals have a 48-inch by 32-inch graphite backboard with a lifetime limited warranty.
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Online procurement
Interflex
Focused on K-12 school food service, BidAdvantage for Schools is an online competitive-bid system that streamlines the bid process and communications among food manufacturers, distributors and brokers. Schools can tabulate vendor quotes easily and award food-service bids, while meeting governmental regulations and eliminating time-consuming paperwork.
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Sustainable lighting
Litecontrol
Litecontrol offers lighting systems to address the qualitative visual needs of students and teachers while minimizing the impact on the environment. The SAE 7700 and the Radi-X fixture provide efficiency and comfort for sustainable classroom lighting. The SAE 7700 complements the existing SAE 9700 and 9800 fixture families with its highly efficient optics and open steel baffle design. The Radi-X uses LiteCycle resin, a new baffle material to maximize visual comfort for students and teachers.
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Bus tracking
Seon Design Inc.
vMax with Tracking is a simple, reliable and cost-effective solution to the operational and financial challenges facing transportation managers in education institutions. User-friendly software displays the exact location of buses on a map, including the street name and time. The maps are displayed on a separate screen apart from the multiple-view camera channel window, allowing the user to view larger images of the maps. On video playback, these dual screens are synchronized completely.
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Steel curtainwall
Technical Glass Products
SteelBuilt Curtainwall Systems allow larger areas of glass, smaller frame profiles and wider free-spans than is possible with aluminum framing. The Infinity Series takes design flexibility even further with back mullions of almost any profile, including I-, T-, U and L-shapes, and can use almost any type of framing member as a back mullion, from stainless steel to glulam beams.
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Table edging
PS Furniture/Palmer Snyder
MAXX Edge is not a separate component, such as traditional vinyl “T” edging or metal edging. Rather, it bonds to and becomes part of the tabletop. Because it eliminates gaps, the end result is no space for food particles or other bacterial substrates to collect, making for a more hygienic table.
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Volume control
FSR
The IT-VCM is a stereo or mono line level volume control module that accepts a balanced or unbalanced stereo audio line level source and provides a balanced stereo output. The module responds to RS-232 commands and manual controls including volume up/down ramping, audio levels and more. Additional IT-VCM modules can be daisy-chained to control multiple sources.
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Curb appeal
Aluminum composite material panels add aesthetic element to high school addition
The Metal Initiative
Until recently, the 22-acre campus of Mamaroneck High School, near New York City, consisted of the original 1926 building and a former junior high school situated about one-quarter mile away. The newest addition, a 28,000-square-foot, three-story facility, serves as a unifying element for what had been a highly segmented school complex for about 1,300 students.
About 10,000 square feet of 4mm Hartford green aluminum composite material (ACM) panels shaped as exterior stepped barrel cornice pieces and aluminum column covers contribute to the addition's curb appeal. The building projects straight stepped barrel cornice pieces, as well as a large, curved stepped barrel cornice with exacting radius conditions. The cornice measures 35 feet long by 30 inches high and has a 50-foot radius.
In selecting ACM panels for the cornices and column covers, Brian Snyder, project architect and senior associate at The Geddis Partnership, said the material offered more design flexibility and color options than glass fiber-reinforced concrete and other materials evaluated for the project. “We were working with a curved roof and needed a material that would lend itself to a curved profile,” says Snyder. “ACMs are exceptionally versatile. They can be pattern-cut and rolled into any shape.”
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