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GridPoint Connect™ combines advanced battery storage, power electronics, and a computer to serve as a hub for solar technologies. It simplifies solar integration, provides online energy management, offers clean battery-based backup power, and facilitates the transmission of excess renewable energy into the power grid. It helps home and business owners automatically protect themselves from power outages and reduce their carbon footprint. This intelligent energy management hub is featured in the only two USGBC LEED-H Platinum-rated residences in the United States. These single-family houses are 80-percent more efficient than conventional residences of similar size. |
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Designed for use in buildings with light-gauge steel frame construction, LEVELROCK® CSD™ is the first poured underlayment that can be applied over metal framing systems or corrugated steel decks. The high-strength underlayment uses a gypsum-based concrete foundation that is thinner than poured-in-place concrete, creating a system that is up to 55-percent lighter per area than three-inch (7.6-centimeter) concrete. It is noncombustible and UL rated. Under normal conditions, the underlayment will set within two to three hours, allowing light traffic the following day. |
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AdvaTech's selective laser sintering (SLS®) technology can deliver a one-piece thermoplastic scale model built to exact specifications in less time and with lower cost than it would take to build the same model by hand. This allows architecture firms to present clients with a model the client can handle without concern. The ease and accuracy of the modeling process is improved, contributing to the efficiency of the entire design process. |
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In a step toward reducing the construction industry's environmental footprint, The Mohawk Group introduces Encycle™, a patent-pending, modular carpet backing system free of polyvinyl chloride (PVC). It is the only carpet tile designed with three thermoplastic layers and no water-based components, enabling complete recyclability back into itself without separation. The new backing system also incorporates thirty-five percent preconsumer recycled content by total product weight and uses twenty-eight percent less virgin raw material. |
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