April 2007 - School Construction News

Products

Fluorescent Lamp Recycling

Air Cycle offers the Bulb Eater fluorescent bulb crushing system to meet disposal needs. The OSHA- and EPA-compliant units are designed to make disposal and recycling processes more efficient, improving bulb storage, handling and safety/liability issues. The fully contained Bulb Eater system crushes spent bulbs in seconds, compacting them into specially designed 55-gallon containers. It uses a two-stage filtration process that captures 99.99 percent of released mercury vapor and particulate matter.

Warewasher

Stero introduces the Ecorinse series of conveyor warewashers, high-temperature systems that use less water and energy to operate. The series uses a two-stage final rinse system, consisting of 1/4-horsepower motor pumps at 165 degrees and 20psi of 180-degree water. It uses 18,000 watts less of electrical current than standard washers to maintain the final rinse.

The number of clean racks produced per hour with Erorinse is 10 percent more than the current Stero model, and gallons of water used during the final rinse is reduced by 59 percent from current models.

Safety Daylighting Panels

Major Industries manufactures the Guardian 275 translucent daylighting panels that have the ability to flex with the force of an explosion. They have been field-tested using machine-generated shock waves that replicated actual blast conditions. The results caused no flying debris and did not endanger building occupants.

The panels offer glare-free natural light and are weather resistant. They meet anti-terrorism performance requirements specified by the Department of Defense, UFC 4-010-01.