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Environment Innovation Awards at resource & recover, Road Expo and Civilex
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The all-island trade shows resource & recover, Road Expo Ireland and Civilex, held on 24-25 March 2009 at Simmonscourt in Dublin, were host to the second Environment Innovation Award, celebrating excellence and innovation of environmental products.
Following its launch in 2008 the second Environment Innovation Awards was a complete success, with more than 25 entries from exhibitors of resource & recover, Road Expo Ireland and Civilex. The overall winner, runner-up and the winner of the visitor vote were announced at resource & recover in front of visitors and exhibitors.
The varied entries, ranging from environmentally friendly road-retexturing processes to solar powered waste compactors, were adjudicated by a judging panel of industry experts. The judges, Lisa Shiels of the research and innovation programme of the EPA, Fred McDarby, Manager of Environment and Green Technology at Enterprise Ireland and Bernard Potter, Editor of the Engineers Journal judged the entries on the following criteria; degree of innovation, technical content, environmental impact and commercial potential.
After quizzing each exhibitor separately on the environmental aspects of their products and almost two hours of intense deliberation and debate, the judges came to the following conclusions.
WINNER - Peek Traffic, Lumis LED street lighting lantern.
The Lumis LED street light is unique; it is the first known street light to utilise a combination of LED colours to optimise vision within the "mesopic" street lighting light level conditions. This innovation gives "More sight for less light". The ethos behind the lanterns design has been to research and design to give an environmentally friendly, sustainable lighting solution that can provide 20%-70% energy and carbon footprint savings. The lantern also has a 20 year life, offering large savings on maintenance costs with reduced high level working and traffic management health and safety risk.
RUNNER UP - Durakerb, environmentally friendly kerbstones.
Durakerb is the revolutionary, lightweight and environmentally-friendly new kerbstone complying with Health & Safety guidelines concerning the manual handling of kerbstones. Manufactured from a blend of recycled polymers, the kerbstone will help all specifiers and contractors to comply with government aims of building a sustainable future. More importantly, it will enable contractors to continue to lay kerbstones exactly as they have done for generations, but in a quicker and safer fashion. 100% recyclable and light weight, Durakerb can be laid without the use of cumbersome and expensive lifting equipment thus increasing the lay speeds dramatically and reducing overall fitting costs.
The visitor vote proved to be a very popular feature with more than 200 people nominating their favourite product or service across the two show open dates. And the runaway winner was;
VISITOR VOTE - SANYX International Ltd, FaxCop.
A unique patent pending device which sits between the telephone socket and your fax machine, the FaxCop automatically stops unwanted Junk or spam faxes while still allowing legitimate faxes through.
The FaxCop saves you money and helps to protect the environment by reducing:
- Waste fax paper by up to 85%
- Fax Inkjet/toner used by up to 85%
- Electricity consumed by your fax machine by up to 85%
More information can be found on www.environment-ireland.com