John Sumlin, sales vice president of education with Tandus Flooring, was awarded the prestigious Eagle Award from the APPA international association of educational facilities professionals. The Eagle Award, APPA’s highest honor for a business partner, is presented to an individual who, on behalf of the company, partners with APPA on new and effective projects, initiatives and programs to advance the educational field.
Jennifer Jordan, IIDA, Fox Architects’ Interiors Director in the Washington, D.C .office, was recently promoted to associate. She is a 15-year design industry veteran and a graduate of the University of Texas at Austin. Jordan has been with Fox for eight years. During this time, she has led her design teams on projects including Pepperdine University, Community College of the District of Columbia, CQ Roll Call, and the Department of Homeland Security.
After a long and distinguished career in academia, government and the law, David J. MacKenzie has decided to retire from his leadership role in one of the most robust building booms in the history of the University of Massachusetts.
Talk-A-Phone’s Card Reader Surface Mount accessory is designed to combine emergency communications equipment with access control. The unit includes a hinged panel for easy installation and an acrylic adapter to magnetically isolate the card reader for enhanced read range. The ETP-SMCR Card Reader system is ideal for drive-up or walk-up applications including building access control and garage or parking lot entries. Like various Talk-A-Phone products, the Card Reader Surface Mount can be mounted to a wall, on a pole, or to a gooseneck pedestal for stand-alone applications.
Canon U.S.A. introduced the LV-8235 Ultra-Short Throw Multimedia Projector, designed to project an 80-inch picture from a distance of only 1.04 feet. The system can sit on a table or be mounted horizontally or vertically on a wall, ceiling or floor for multiple applications, including educational presentations and others. With brightness raging up to 2500 lumens and a maximum display size of 110 inches, the LV-8235 UST delivers crisp imagery, which eliminates cropping or distortion when presenting. The projector can use either normal 2D display or stereoscopic 3D display.
