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STEP on PGAV
Project Green AV offers insight and practical information for understanding and navigating STEP Green AV guidelines.
Learn more on our PGAV STEP Page.
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STEP: Insight from Allen Weidman
 On November 2, at the first ever GovComm, InfoComm announced the launch of the STEP Foundation website. Project Green AV sat down with Allen Weidman, InfoComm International Sustainability Officer and Executive Director of the STEP Foundation, to offer the industry more clarity about what this program is and what it means for our AV industry. Allen shared his insights on STEP, its evolution and plans for the future as an environmentally responsible rating system for the AV industry.
STEP, once an InfoComm initiative, has grown into the STEP Foundation. The Foundation is a collaboration among InfoComm, BICSI, CompTIA, and TIA. Together, the four trade associations "work in unison to focus on value for all members" in service to environmental responsibility and opportunities. The STEP Foundation is comprised of two representatives from each member association, with Scott Walker and Ray Kemp representing InfoComm.
Energy management figures into STEP prominently. Thirty percent of STEP is dedicated to Smart Building Technologies (SBT). SBT is intrinsic to Green AV because it “humanizes the building” beyond materials used.
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Welcome to Project Green AV
Project Green AV is the audiovisual industry source for news, education, community and conversations about environmental responsibility in AV.
Connect with Green AV content, contacts and opportunities for Green AV practices, products and process here and through our newsletter, events, LinkedIn Group and Twitter.
We have been proud to educate and communicate Green AV since 2008 and we are happy to welcome you. Contact us to share ideas, ask questions or suggest Green AV opportunities.
Green AV: Set the Standard
It's safe to say that the Green AV Revolution is over. The audio visual industry is now facing the practical reality of developing and applying consistent, repeatable, cost-effective and recognizable environmentally responsible business practices, processes and products.
Pro-AV businesses and end users are in a unique position. Having been boxed out of LEED, AV has had a harder time pitching its advances in environmentally responsible products and practices. At the same time, the AV industry has not been involved in greenwashing the way many other industries have, nor is AV associated with recent lawsuits against the USGBC LEED program.
What needs to happen for Green AV to become the standard for AV products, practices and processes and how can the industry expect to see a Green AV improve the bottom line for AV businesses?
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Featured NewsContractors Advised to Look at Carbon Footprint as Agencies Strive for Sustainability
Source: Daily Environment Report; Andrew Childers via BNA (Sept 13, 2011)
Energy Management Tech Briefing: Sprint, Proliphix, SmartLabs, Tendril, Elster, Lutron, Tantalus
Source: environmentalLeader (Sept 9, 2011)
RelampIt! Promotes Green AV with an AV Week Raffle
Source: Projector Lamp Services (Sept 2, 2011)
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Lencore Acoustics has a straightforward approach to environmental sustainability: consider the "whole environment," which is exactly what the company strives to do in its products and in-house business practices.
 Whole environmental quality, particularly acoustic environmental quality, guides Lencore in design and manufacturing and is a directive for end user product satisfaction. Marketing Director Jodi Jacobs describes it as "a proactive approach to building environments that provide privacy and comfort” Their energy efficient systems address speech privacy in office and health care settings and afford occupants the ability to communicate, collaborate and concentrate. Lencore is driven by the long-term concern that "we have a planet to live in and we have to be aware" of our impact and the short-term necessity to respond to customer needs with products that improve the quality of the immediate environment around them. For Lencore those customer environments include health care, education and corporate where optimal performance with minimal energy usage is required for usability and sustainability.
Lencore products are manufactured in the US and made of recycled materials and waste reduction is a benchmark of the process. The products themselves when installed, "create environmentally positive work environments.”
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Project Green AV LinkedIn Group Tops 1,000 Members
Project Green AV is proud to report that our LinkedIn Group is over 1,000 members strong and growing by the day.
Join our conversations on LinkedIn and here on the Project Green AV Forum to share insight, news and opinions on Green AV with professionals across the audio visual industry and around the world.
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LynTec Circuit Breaker Panels Offer Convenience & Energy Efficiencies
Every once in a while an opportunity appears in the AV industry which didn’t exist a year ago – and we look around and say “that product now meets this new need.” This is exactly the case with regards to the LynTec RPC Series Circuit Breaker Panels. Their controllable, networkable motorized circuit breaker panel meets many of the electrical power monitoring & control required for an energy efficient installation. The LynTec RPC circuit breaker panels include web enabled control and monitoring making remote access easy. Learn more.
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