Have you been waiting to take the next STEP in your green AV initiative? Pretty soon, you'll have the tools necessary to ensure your users have energy-efficient systems.
Here's how important sustainbility if to InfoComm and the pro AV community: InfoComm recently hired a dedicated sustainability officer. Read about how he's approaching his job.
InfoComm's Sustainable Technology Environments Program is almost finished. Get the inside scoop from someone who is helping write the green AV rating system.
It's long been discussed: How can AV integrators extend their control systems expertise to entire buildings? These days, some firms are doing just that.
Control4, which makes affordable IP-based control systems, has signed a strategic agreement with Cisco Systems to deliver network-enabled automation platforms for connected smart communities and home energy deployments, according to the company.
Casio America said it is expanding its line of Green Slim projectors with four new models of increased brightness–the XJ-A255V, XJ-A250, XJ-A155V, and XJ-A150.
The new XPA 2002-70V, XPA 2003C-70V, and XPA 2004 power amplifiers from Extron are reportedly the first-available commercial amps to meet Energy Star 2.0 criteria.
What better opportunity to incorporate the guidance of 3D modeling software into an AV design than when the client is Autodesk itself and the project is a new LEED Platinum corporate briefing center?
Having struck out with the U.S. Green Building Council, the AV industry now aims to create its own LEED-type sustainability certification process, due out in January 2011. Here's what it entails.
The Bank of America building in New York was designed to earn LEED Platinum. As such, the AV designs from CMS Audiovisual Consultants had to be as green as possible.
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Having met a roadblock in getting AV recognized by LEED, InfoComm is announcing work on its own sustainability rating system for AV and electronic systems.
When is going green not what it's all cracked up to be? When it completely changes the way you work. Pro AV's resident consultant wants to do the right thing, but a few innovations would help.
The eight DLP-based Green Slim projectors are either WXGA or XGA and either 2,500 or 2,000 ANSI lumens. Each uses Casio?s new hybrid light source, which combines a laser, fluorescent element, and LED.
InfoComm 2010 is almost here. PRO AV previews 10 things you can do, see, or learn this year that you couldn't last year. Commercial 3D anyone?
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AMX has entered into partnerships with building management device manufacturer FieldServer Technologies, a subsidiary of Sierra Monitor Corp., and energy measurement company DENT Instruments. The strategic alliance is expected to allow AMX to offer networked, interactive control systems for...
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After a three-year pilot program, LEED-ND is officially launched, becoming the seventh LEED rating system from the U.S. Green Building Council.
If, in this era of declining print subscriptions, executives at the Harvard Business Review want proof that their articles have a direct impact on business, they need look no further than the SAP Americas Headquarters Expansion.
Fewer projects are under way in Manchester these days, but the city's focus on ensuring the economic viability of what gets built means fewer are in financial trouble.
New plans are in the works to help Florida's service plazas go silver and green.
Last year, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Energy Star program published a new version of its requirements to include qualifications for gear such as audio DSPs and amplifiers.