Innovative Products + Services
New Product of the Year Awards 2015
All of us at College Planning & Management would like to thank the companies that submitted their products for our New Product of the Year awards. We received an outstanding group of entries. Below, we are featuring those products that were judged as enhancing the learning environment in categories including Building Controls, Carpet & Flooring, Plumbing, Roofing, Classroom Furniture and more.
Wi-Fi Network Clocks
American Time and Signal Co.
WiFi network clocks keep precise time throughout a building or campus, which is critical for optimizing the flow of students and staff, accurately tracking learning times and class changes. The clocks are factoryconfigured to receive the precise time signal from a facility’s 802.11n network time server on a regular basis, allowing clocks to all display the same, accurate time.
Judges’ Comments: Pre-configured. WiFi networked. No maintenance for five years. Logo clock dial for branding.
Category: Communication: Clocks, Bells, Intercoms - GOLD
www.american-time.com
Aruba Mobile Engagement
Aruba Networks
Aruba’s Mobile Engagement Solution enables colleges and universities to address all aspects of a guest’s mobility experience on campus – high speed WiFi, browser-based messaging, and location-based mobile app engagement. A key component of the solution, Aruba’s Meridian mobile app platform, allows organizations to easily build cross-platform mobile apps.
Judges’ Comments: Real-time indoor navigation. Contextual messaging. Can be used to deliver educational content.
Category: Networking Equipment - PLATINUM
www.arubanetworks.com
IP-Enabled Campus Access Control Locks with HID Mobile Access Support
ASSA ABLOY
IP-enabled PoE and WiFi campus access control locks from ASSA ABLOY Group brands Corbin Russwin and SARGENT combine HID multiclass SE technology with a magnetic stripe reader, offering simultaneous support for multiple credentials. Ideal for universities, these locks allow an easy transition to any contactless credentials and HID Mobile Access.
Judges’ Comments: Simultaneous support for multiple credentials. Ease of transition. Cost-saving.
Category: Access Control - PLATINUM
www.personacampus.com
EnergyCenter 3.0
Autani, LLC
Autani is transforming the way commercial and industrial buildings optimize energy management with EnergyCenter — the emerging leader in distributed, wirelessly managed controls for HVAC, lighting, plug loads, and more. Using schedules and occupancy, EnergyCenter reduces energy use while delivering efficient work areas, all with a user-friendly and cost-effective system. EnergyCenter from Autani: Automating Green.
Judges’ Comments: Customizable. Easy to use. Real-time reporting.
Category: Building Controls - GOLD
www.autani.com
Haiku with SenseME
Big Ass Solutions
Haiku with SenseME is designed with smaller spaces in mind, making it a popular choice in schools. A standout in energy efficiency, Haiku is 80 percent more efficient than conventional ceiling fans. As the world’s first smart ceiling fan, Haiku with SenseME technology helps schools automatically save up to 30 percent on air conditioning in the summer, as well as uses its Winter Mode to cut heating costs by up to 25 percent.
Judges’ Comments: Great for small spaces. Features a smart mode with environmental sensors.
Category: HVAC - PLATINUM
www.BigAssSolutions.com
Express ELX-Series Lavatory Systems
Bradley Corporation
Bradley’s Express ELX-Series Lavatory features a sleek and modern single bowl with a unique multi-user contoured design. Easy to specify, install, clean and maintain, the Express ELX-Series has the look and feel of an individual lavatory, yet accommodates up to three people at one time.
Judges’ Comments: Multi-user. Look and feel of an individual lav. Ease of maintenance.
Category: Plumbing: Restroom/Locker Room - GOLD
www.bradleycorp.com/elx-series-express-sinks
Canon REALiS WUX6000 Pro AV Installation LCOS Projector
Canon U.S.A, Inc.
The Canon REALiS WUX6000 Pro AV Installation LCOS Projector is designed to deliver bright, 6000-lumen high-resolution WUXGA (1920 x 1200) widescreen video and still images in a variety of environments. Equipped with Canon’s LCOS Technology with AISYS-enhancement, and a new advanced image-processing engine, this Projector displays vivid, seamless images.
Judges’ Comments: Brightness. Resolution. Accurate colors.
Category: A/V Equipment - GOLD
www.usa.canon.com
OptiMax
The Garland Company, Inc.
Garland’s revolutionary new OptiMax polyurethane-modified asphalt-based roof membrane is the world’s first and only of its kind, developed with an innovative, patented technology designed to transform the roofing industry. The groundbreaking process combines asphalt with polyurethane to create the most durable and longest-lasting modified membrane on the market.
Judges’ Comments: Innovative technology. Durability for extended life.
Category: Roofing - PLATINUM
www.garlandco.com
Patented Perma-Banner System
Howard Industries PRIME Sign Program
Distinct from fabric banners, the revolutionary Patented Perma-Banner Sign System from Howard Industries PRIME Sign Program will not fray, tear, shred, crack or wrinkle due to the combination of the durable PolyMetal panel uniquely engineered “No Fly Away” vertical mounting bracket. The weather-resistant banner of PolyMetal material can be routed into custom shapes, then adorned with solvent inkjet-printed graphics.
Judges’ Comments: Durable. Money-saving. Customizable.
Category: Signage - PLATINUM
www.primesignprogram.com
Harmonize and Ground Waves
Interface
Hitting high notes of color, contrast and texture, Interface’s Harmonize and Ground Waves carpet tiles are a duo perfect for interiors of all types. Ideal for innovative high-performing spaces that are designed to transform and inspire, with all with the valued Interface benefits of simple, glue-free installation and selective replacement.
Judges’ Comments: Waste reduction. Glue-free installation. Ease of replacement..
Category: Carpet & Flooring - HONORABLE MENTION
www.interface.com
Student Union
J+J Flooring Group/Invision
Student Union from J+J Flooring Group/Invision is a new customizable modular carpet collection that makes it easy to incorporate a school or university’s brand into the campus interiors. Student Union was created to work on any part of a campus in virtually any facility. With three patterns and 15 of the top collegiate colors to choose from, Student Union allows a school to create a space as strong or as subtle with school spirit as needed.
Judges’ Comments: Customizable. Helps institutions to brand across their campuses.
Category: Carpet & Flooring - HONORABLE MENTION
www.jj-invision.com
Umbra/Umbra Stripe
J+J Flooring Group
Umbra blends colors to create a sleek and alluring complexity that provides the perfect multicolored balance for a variety of learning-centered spaces. Umbra and Umbra Stripe are available in 13 colorways and an 18-inch-by-36-inch size and encompass the unmatched performance and sustainable attributes that are inherent in all Kinetex textile composite flooring products.
Judges’ Comments: Interesting, complex flooring design. Offers durability with low-environmental impact.
Category: Carpet & Flooring - GOLD
www.jj-kinetex.com
Modern M•Bition Bath Suite
Moen Commercial
Faucets within the new medium-duty M•Bition™ line from Moen appeal to a number of facilities. Sleek single- and two-handle widespread faucets feature Moen’s Duralast cartridge and are designed to handle everything from hard water to heavy use. M•Bition faucets offer precise handle control, allowing the user to fine-tune temperature balance, as well as an adjustable temperature limit stop.
Judges’ Comments: Durable. Fully functional. Contemporary styling.
Category: Plumbing: Restroom/Locker Room - PLATINUM
www.moencommercial.com
Essay Seating
National Office Furniture
Student-inspired and student-designed, Essay is a unique solution to today’s evolving population of learners. Essay came about through a partnership between National Office Furniture and Purdue University. Essay is available in eight signature colors and in a student chair, task chair and stool. With smart design, intuitive functionality and a broad product mix, Essay is the easy answer!
Judges’ Comments: Collaborative. Functional. Student-led design.
Category: Classroom Furniture & Equipment - PLATINUM
www.NationalOfficeFurniture.com
noraplan nTx
nora systems, Inc.
noraplan nTx floor covering is resistant to moisture and has no pH limits, which eliminates the need for traditional concrete moisture mitigation and subfloor preparation systems and cuts installation time by as much as 50 percent. This revolutionary sheet flooring features a pre-applied, solvent-free self-adhesive that eliminates the need for a separate, messy, time-consuming wet adhesive system.
Judges’ Comments: Improves installation. Saves on prep time and costs.
Category: Carpet & Flooring - PLATINUM
www.nora.com/us
Mid Century Pop
PatCraft
Inspired by the Dutch modernist movement, De Stijl, the Mid Century Pop collection plays with solid and textured blocks of color with bold, linear accents. This collection, featuring a play on geometrics and outlines, was designed to coordinate with the Mid Century Mad collection, is available in two dynamic styles that blend together to support the shift towards more collaborative environments taking place in schools and colleges today.
Judges’ Comments: Cradle to grave, retro design.
Category: Carpet & Flooring - HONORABLE MENTION
www.patcraft.com
Mixed Materials
Patcraft
Mixed Materials brings breakthrough innovation to the collaborative environment, allowing designers to use hard and soft flooring surfaces side- by-side, alone or in multiple combinations to create spaces that support the way we work, learn and interact. As schools shift to provide more collaborative spaces, Mixed Materials enables them to do so without transition strips, and eliminates complicated installations.
Judges’ Comments: Hard and soft flooring combinations with no transition. Supports varying needs in learning environments.
Category: Carpet & Flooring - PLATINUM
www.patcraft.com
Typography
Patcraft
Inspired by the layouts and fonts of newsprint, Patcraft’s Typography collection layers subtle pattern, artistic type treatments and line-art mapping to create styles and patterns with universal appeal. Typography offers common, baseline features that unite the collection while allowing each pattern to stand on its own or be mixed and matched with others in the collection.
Judges’ Comments: Durable. Contemporary design creates colorful, engaging spaces.
Category: Carpet & Flooring - HONORABLE MENTION
www.patcraft.com
CrisisManager
SchoolDude
SchoolDude CrisisManager is a mobile safety platform that helps K-12 school districts and higher education institutions mobilize their emergency response plans. SchoolDude launched CrisisManager to help guarantee emergency plans and safety procedures are immediately and readily available to K-12 and higher education constituents including administrators, faculty/teachers, staff, parents and students via mobile devices at all times.
Judges’ Comments: Comprehensive. Easy to use. Customizable.
Category: Emergency Communications - PLATINUM
www.SchoolDude.com
Low Frequency Sounders, Sounder Strobes and Sounder Bases
System Sensor
System Sensor’s low-frequency product line utilizes a custom 2-inch speaker optimized for low-frequency code requirements. According to studies, low-frequency tones are six to 10 times more effective at waking sleeping individuals and are the most ideal to awaken those with mild to severe hearing loss.
Judges’ Comments: Low frequency sound. Versatile. Takes into account disabled and impaired students.
Category: Emergency Evacuation - PLATINUM
www.SystemSensor.com
Maelstrom
Tandus Centiva
Maelstrom, a design by Jhane Barnes, is informed by the look and action of motion picture filmstrips. Multiple coloured yarn threads intertwine horizontally and vertically to form a complex modern take on the plaid. Maelstrom’s 14 colour positions are thread-up across a sixfoot width platform in such away as to make seaming effortless.
Judges’ Comments: Durable, six-foot wide platform. Sustainable.
Category: Carpet & Flooring - HONORABLE MENTION
www.tandus-centiva.com
Acczent Flourish Heterogeneous Sheet Flooring
Tarkett Johnsonite
Acczent Flourish looks and performs beautifully in high-traffic hallways, classrooms and lobbies — almost any area — flowing from space to space with well-thought-out designs. The industry-leading 32-mil wear layer is exceptionally hardwearing. The wear layer is coupled with a low-maintenance, UV-cured polyurethane surface treatment.
Judges’ Comments: Sustainable. Maintainable. Good life-cycle cost.
Category: Carpet & Flooring - GOLD
www.tarkettna.com
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