Archive for the ‘Green AV’ Category
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“Events are going green,” says InfoComm
Posted in Fun & Facts Green AV InfoComm International Interesting Articles Staging on January 12, 2012 by Trish Richards
AV professionals are already familiar with hundreds of acronyms and alphanumeric designators, so what’s a few more? New sustainability standards and protocols introduced this year and next may prove especially significant to a portion of the industry that has increasingly attracted the attention of the green movement: events. For the first time, the rental and [...]
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The real deal on LEDs
Posted in Green AV Hot Technology Interesting Articles on September 26, 2011 by Trish Richards
Over the past six years, LED lighting technologies have become more popular and available for consumer and professional applications. This move has been pushed by a desire to find ‘greener’ solutions. With LED technologies, minimal power is consumed, using less than half the power of previous solutions. As with all products on the market, LED [...]
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Can you Find the Three Rs in AVW-TELAV?
Posted in Corporate Social Responsibility Fun & Facts Green AV on September 16, 2011 by Trish Richards
Audio visual equipment has a somewhat limited shelf life, as fast moving technology tends to lead towards obsolescence in a fairly short period of time. To reduce the impact of thousands of pounds of older AV equipment potentially entering landfills, there are a number of initiatives we have in place that minimize this impact due [...]
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AVW-TELAV Green Policy
Posted in AVW-TELAV Employees AVW-TELAV Products & Services Fun & Facts Green AV on August 30, 2011 by Trish Richards
AVW-TELAV has a reputation for introducing the most advanced and practical presentation solutions to our customers. So it should come as no surprise that we were also influential in implementing and promoting environmentally-conscious programs before ‘Going Green’ became the latest business trend. Read more
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LEEDing the way to greener meetings in Canada
Posted in Canada Convention Centres Corporate Social Responsibility Green AV Interesting Articles News on June 7, 2011 by Trish Richards
The only surefire way to make certain your event is its greenest is to collaborate with an environmentally-conscientious facility. The Ottawa Convention Centre (OCC) started its greening at the very foundation, by building the facility to meet Leadership in Energy & Environmental Design (LEED) requirements. They also partnered with AVW-TELAV—the only AV integrator in Canada [...]
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Earth Hour 2011: March 26 @ 8:30 P.M.
Posted in Fun & Facts Green AV Upcoming Events on March 24, 2011 by Trish Richards
WWF is calling on Canadians to think about how we use and produce energy. To create the best possible future for Canadians and for the planet, let’s stop wasting energy, and generate what we need from clean, renewable sources like wind and solar. Canada can be a world leader in clean energy. But the longer [...]
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Crestron & AVW-TELAV collaborate on world’s first LEED Platinum Convention Centre
Posted in Case Studies Green AV Hot Technology News System Design and Integration on March 11, 2011 by Trish Richards
Click here to read Crestron’s Vancouver Convention Centre case study.
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Interesting article on Sustainability in AV – AVW-TELAV GM is quoted
Posted in Green AV Interesting Articles System Design and Integration on February 2, 2011 by Trish Richards
If you’ve got a prospective client that values energy efficiency, which titbit of information is likely to have more impact: that a particular model of display consumes a few kilowatts less than rival products over the course of a year, or that a person sitting in a meeting produces an average of about 400 BTU of heat per hour?
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How important is it to you that the companies you work with are ‘green’?
Posted in Fun & Facts Green AV Polls on November 23, 2010 by Trish Richards
AVW-TELAV established it Green Policy in March 2006, won InfoComm’s Green AV award in 2010, and we continue to be environmental leaders in the AV, meetings and conventions industry by looking at our own environmental stamp and striving to diminish its impact. How important is it to you that the companies you work with are ‘green’? [...]
