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Security gets top billing at Buildings NY trade show.


Visitors entering the 24th annual Buildings New York New York, state, United States
New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of
 convention, held at the Jacob Javits Center on June 8 and 9, might have noticed an emerging trend amid the myriad of vendors.

While the show still has nuts and bolts nuts and bolts
pl.n. Slang
The basic working components or practical aspects: "[proposing]
 product displays of everything from janitorial supplies to new boilers to state-of-the-art industrial water filters, security products and services have proliferated.

"Over the past three years security has bloomed," said Dean Russo, Industry Vice President for Reed Exhibitions and manager of the show. "It has become the biggest product segment in the show."

Positioned cattycorner to the convention hall's entrance--and giving visitors a quick taste of what was to come--was Aegis Assessments, a technology firm whose table demonstrated their new Wireless Safety System.

Taking into account the many contingencies of a disaster or emergency, the unit is housed in a portable 30-pound suitcase that can be used off the premises and can provide video images from cameras within the building as well as fire data. Via microphones in the company's camera units, the controller can also communicate with evacuating or stranded occupants in the building.

While Aegis's product was especially high-tech, it wasn't the only one of its kind. Canadian firm, NetVision, specializes in video servers for remote surveillance of office, factory and home space. Using the Internet, the Internet, the, international computer network linking together thousands of individual networks at military and government agencies, educational institutions, nonprofit organizations, industrial and financial corporations of all sizes, and commercial enterprises  company's equipment allows the transmission of video to one's home or office computer and also has the capacity to record and playback those images.

"A lot of these technologies that are emerging reflect on where buildings of the future are going," Russo said. "Eventually all the things that go on in a building, like the lighting, the heating and air conditioning air conditioning, mechanical process for controlling the humidity, temperature, cleanliness, and circulation of air in buildings and rooms. Indoor air is conditioned and regulated to maintain the temperature-humidity ratio that is most comfortable and healthful. , telecommunications, security, and the building's access controls will all be integrated into one system and administered on the computer."

High tech comes with its price tag and although this year's increase in tables and turnout indicates a rebounding economy and larger budgets for building owners and managers, there was still a sizable segment of vendors garnering attention for their cost saving products.

Buoyed by guest appearances from former Yankee Don Larsen and former Knick John Starks John Starks may refer to:
  • John Starks, former NBA basketball player
  • John "Jabo" Starks, drummer from the James Brown band.
, Global Encasement's popularity was also bolstered by its economic alternatives to asbestos removal.

Company sales V.P. John Spicijaric explained that excavating asbestos poses the threat of air contamination and often is a costly and involved procedure that requires the temporary evacuation of personnel occupying the space.

Encasing the cancer-causing material is fast and cheap and preserves the element's superior insulating qualities while neutralizing its potential harm.

Surface Care presented an idea also in the vein of preservation, but with respect to glass. Glass buffing demonstrations and presentations showing the effectiveness of their glass chemical treatments have already bagged the company big name clients in Manhattan, according spokesman, Mark Sklar.

Lord and Taylor recently utilized the company's expertise to refurbish re·fur·bish  
tr.v. re·fur·bished, re·fur·bish·ing, re·fur·bish·es
To make clean, bright, or fresh again; renovate.



re·fur
 outdoor show windows that would have cost tens of thousands of dollars to replace.

ActionCraft Products, Inc., a newcomer to the show, offered affordable industrial gas detectors as well as labels and engraved en·grave  
tr.v. en·graved, en·grav·ing, en·graves
1. To carve, cut, or etch into a material: engraved the champion's name on the trophy.

2.
 signs.

Some companies marketed their products using good old shock value. Ecolab, a national pest elimination firm not only had a catalogue of dead pests like termites, ants and moths This is an incomplete list of species of Lepidoptera that are commonly known as moths. Large and dramatic moth species
  • Death's-head Hawkmoth Acherontia atropos
  • Luna Moth Actias luna
  • Atlas moth Attacus atlas
 on display, the company also had some that were alive and kicking alive and vigorously active.

See also: kicking
, or in this case, hissing hiss  
n.
1. A sharp sibilant sound similar to a sustained s.

2. An expression of disapproval, contempt, or dissatisfaction conveyed by use of this sound.

v.
.

Housed in terrariums were two breeds of giant roach, the Madagascar hissing cockroach--familiar to those who tune into Fear Factor--and another, even grimmer looking breed called the Cave Cockroach cockroach or roach, name applied to approximately 3,500 species of flat-bodied, oval insects forming the order Blattodea. Cockroaches have long antennae, long legs adapted to running, and a flat extension of the upper body wall that conceals the , about the size of two silver dollars and sheathed in large translucent wings.

"We don't let those out because they have the tendency to fly," said company account executive, Christopher Meduri, who calmly held one of the nearly four inch Madagascar roaches.

"When I first started with the company, I was really afraid of bugs. As you might be able to tell, I've since conquered that fear."
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Author:Geiger, Daniel
Publication:Real Estate Weekly
Geographic Code:1U2NY
Date:Jun 16, 2004
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