Kalamazoo, MI - Landscape Forms, North American’s largest designer and manufacturer of site furniture, announces the company will be exhibiting at Greenbuild 2010 in Booth #679. The U.S. Green Building Council’s annual Greenbuild International Conference & Expo presents three days of extensive education programming, workshops, an exhibition floor and networking events November 17 – 19 in Chicago’s McCormick Place. Landscape Forms will host an exhibit space featuring selected products from the Metro40 Collection with information on LED lighting and the Sort flexible system of recycling bins.
ABOUT METRO40
A collection of integrated site furniture, from shelters, lighting and receptacles to benches, bike racks and bollards, Metro40 is the result of the best thinking of the company’s own team and the special expertise the BMW Group DesignworksUSA has in transportation, where its successful projects include a whole range of products that put people in motion. The Metro40 Collection was specifically designed to support urban transit.
ABOUT LED LIGHTING
Landscape Forms offers Hi-Glo/Lo-Glo LED Lighting in two elevations. It is pedestrian scale lighting that offers new solutions for energy savings, low maintenance, light pollution control and human health. It combines advanced lighting technology with sophisticated design that elevates the vocabulary for streetscape lighting.
ABOUT SORT
As a neat and attractive inducement to do the right thing for the environment, Sort is a flexible system of collection bins and organizing basket for interior as well as exterior use. With all the little conveniences, such as lift-off lids for easy emptying and bag clips to eliminate unsightly overhang, this clever recycling solution is itself completely recyclable at the end of its long life.
ABOUT LANDSCAPE FORMS
Since its founding in 1969 Landscape Forms has earned a reputation for excellent design, high quality products and exceptional service. The Landscape Forms U.S. headquarters and manufacturing facility is located in Kalamazoo, Michigan with sales offices throughout North America, the United Kingdom, the United Arab Emirates, Japan, Hong Kong and China, and Southern Europe. Landscape Forms collaborates with renowned industrial designers and consultancies, landscape architects, and architects to design and develop integrated collections of products that address emerging needs. The company has an installed based of products around the world. Clients include municipalities, transit centers, corporate, college and health care campuses; and familiar brand leaders such as Boeing, Cisco Systems, Disney, Sprint, American Airlines, Herman Miller and Nike. Landscape Forms was recently named by the Wall Street Journal as one of the Top 15 Small Workplaces in the US. www.landscapeforms.com
ABOUT GREENBUILD
The U.S. Green Building Council’s Greenbuild International Conference & Expo convenes the industry’s largest gathering of representatives from all sectors of the green building movement. Three days of extensive educational programming, workshops, a vast exhibition floor and ample networking events provide unrivaled opportunities to learn about the latest technological innovations, explore new products, and exchange ideas with other professionals. Greenbuild 2010’s educational and workshop programming, which includes a Residential Summit, International Forum and USGBC LEED workshops, embodies its central theme of Generation Green—a moment in time that will redefine the future for cities and towns around the world. Greenbuild 2010 will also feature exciting speakers, including current U.S. Secretary for Housing and Urban Development Shaun Donovan, environmentalist, entrepreneur and journalist Paul Hawken and former HUD Secretary Henry Cisneros. USGBC will soon announce Greenbuild 2010’s keynote speaker; previous keynote speakers have included President Bill Clinton, Vice President Al Gore and Nobel Peace Laureate Archbishop Desmond Tutu.
Greenbuild is the three-time recipient of IMEX Green Meetings Award and has been named among Tradeshow Week’s Top 200 shows, received TreeHugger.com’s Readers’ Choice Award for Best Green Event and earned Meeting Professionals International’s RISE Award for Organizational Achievement. The 2010 show will be held Nov. 17-19, 2010, in Chicago, Ill. This past year’s conference in Phoenix, Ariz., drew more than 27,000 attendees and featured more than 1,800 exhibit booths and Greenbuild 2010 is expected to be even bigger. Visit greenbuildexpo.org for more information. To register for Greenbuild 2010, go to http://www.greenbuildexpo.org/register.aspx. To view last year’s Greenbuild show, go to 2009.greenbuildexpo.org.
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