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Greenbuild 2010 round-up: less water, more light
Here’s a round-up of some of the participants at Greenbuild 2010, which is filling eight football fields’ worth of exhibition space in Chicago:
– The folks at Zero Flush—a company in Kissimmee, Florida that builds no-water, non-flushing urinals—started with this premise: water is precious; urinal maintenance is a nightmare.
Zero Flush—whose founders left competitors Falcon and Waterless—builds wall-fixed urinals that it says save approximately 40,000 gallons of water per year and are odor-free and easily maintained .
They work like this.
Zero Flush urinals have a basin and a replaceable filter that fits in a tray. The filer contains an odor-blocking solution made of mostly vegetable oil.
Powell blooms in retirement at green building expo
“Colin Powell is … an interesting choice for a convention on green building,” said George Baños, a project manager attending the industry’s largest annual gathering.
Baños was one of thousands of people who assembled in a hangar-sized auditorium at McCormick Place near downtown Chicago this morning to hear the former Secretary of State’s opening address to Greenbuild 2010, a showcase for the latest innovations in green building.
