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| Our Ceiling Recycling Program Hits the UK | ||
| Our Ceilings in New USGBC Headquarters | Euro Trade Shows BAU and Ecobuild | |
| NeoCon World Trade Fair | Breakfast with the “Green” Stars in Australia |
| Our Ceiling Recycling Program Hits the UK | |
| The Armstrong Ceiling Recycling Program for commercial projects has expanded to the United Kingdom and includes most mineral fiber ceiling tiles produced after 2000,
including other ceiling tile brands. We pick up old ceiling tile loads of 2,000 square meters or more from commercial building
sites anywhere in the UK and return them to our plant – on our nickel . These ceiling products can be 100% recycled and remade
into new Armstrong ceilings. We are the only mineral wool ceiling tile producer to offer a comprehensive post-consumer recycling
program in the UK. Photo to right: Armstrong collects 2,600 square meters, or 10 tonnes, of our Dune Supreme ceiling tile from the Farnborough Air Show site. The old ceiling tiles were replaced with new Dune Supreme with Humiguard ceiling tiles for aesthetics, acoustics and humidity resistance. |
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| Our Ceilings in New USGBC Headquarters | |
| The U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) put its “money where its mouth is” by renovating a 1975 Washington D.C. office to serve as its new headquarters and LEED
Platinum model of green building – just like our own LEED Platinum corporate headquarters in Lancaster. Armstrong was a Platinum sponsor of the project and contributed 30,000 square feet of our newest sustainable ceiling and grid systems, including Tierra and DC FlexZone, along with acoustical evaluation and consulting services as part of LEED certification. Our Armstrong Marietta, Pa. ceilings plant, only 110 miles from D.C., helped the building achieve LEED Commercial Interiors points for materials sourced within a 500 mile radius of the project and for recycled content in our products. Armstrongers Anita Snader and Kenneth Roy also worked with the architect team to build a LEED Innovation in Design credit for ceiling system acoustics, a feature proven to enhance employee privacy, comfort and productivity. |
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More than 1,200 exhibits showcase thousands of innovative products and resources for commercial and residential interiors at NeoCon World Trade Fair each year. This year, Armstrong strutted its stuff by looking back on our own legacy of innovation, and ahead, with pioneering products that help us and our customers reduce impact on the environment. Armstrong Flooring at NeoCon
Check out the flooring blog from NeoCon by clicking here. Armstrong Ceilings at NeoCon Hit Singles:
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BAU, held in Munich, Germany, is Europe’s most important trade fair for architecture, materials and systems for buildings.
Armstrong linoleum was not only the featured product at our exhibit, it was the exhibit. The entire space—floor, stairs, walls,
ceilings, even the hospitality bar tables and chairs—was covered in blue, white and green shades of linoleum, part of our
new European color collection based on the “color wheel” concept developed by famous Swiss artist Johannes Itten.
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The Green Building Council of Australia (GBCA) Green Star rating system is the Australian equivalent of the U.S. Green Building Council’s (USGBC) LEED system. Armstrong ceilings and suspension systems have contributed to the first buildings to achieve “6 Green Star” certification, the highest possible rating, in their building categories. First “6 Green Star” Office Design building: The Gauge at the Docklands, Melbourne
First “6 Green Star” Education building: The Bond University - Mirvac School of Sustainable Development, Queenland’s Gold Coast
First “6 Green Star” Office Interiors building: The Stockland Group headquarters, Sydney |
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PROGRESS REPORTEnergy and Greenhouse GasesWater Forest Management Our Kankakee, Ill., plant installed a new, more efficient chiller that will reduce annual electric use by just over one million kilowatt hours and water consumption by one and half million gallons. Our Marietta, Pa., installed energy efficiency lighting which will reduce its greenhouse gas emissions by 1,530 tons. We funded four reforestation projects in partnership with the Hardwood Forestry Fund (HFF) in 2008. In 2009, we are funding five projects with HFF in or near communities where we operate. We’re planting trees in Jackson Washington State Forest, Brownstown, Indiana; Raystown Lake, Pennsylvania; and University of Arkansas properties in Hope and Pendleton, Arkansas. At the Purdue University Stephens property, Carroll County, Indiana and Kumbrabrow State Forest, West Virginia, we’re supporting two projects to promote natural regeneration of hardwood tree stands. Each project has a land management plan to ensure the highest likelihood of success. In just two years, our efforts will yield over one million trees in the U.S. |
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 Tierra Commercial Ceiling PanelsTierra is one of the ceiling industry’s most rapidly renewable acoustical ceilings. Its substrate is made with jute, a natural fiber that grows from seed to harvest in ninety days. Tierra installed with our High Recycled Content grid is the most sustainable ceiling system available today.
DC FlexZone Commercial Ceiling Grid SystemOur new DC FlexZone commercial ceiling grid system allows the use of direct current (DC) power for lighting fixtures, sensors and other electrical devices in the ceiling significantly improving the flexibility and reuse of interior spaces through “plug and play” modularity. Want to repurpose or reconfigure a space? There’s no need to rewire with DC FlexZone.
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