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Romtec’s Green Products for LEED Certification
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April is Green Month, and Earth Day 2012 is fast approaching! Romtec wants to remind everyone of the great opportunities for LEED certification we provide with green public restrooms. But first, how well do you understand LEED strategies and standards? Let’s take a look some of the areas that might help your project truly represent Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design.
There are five primary categories that LEED certification takes into consideration for commercial buildings, and they are all weighted differently in terms of points that can be awarded.
For background, the certification operates on a 100-point scale, with 10 bonus points available. If your project earns 40 points, it becomes LEED certified. At 50 points, the project is certified Silver; at 60, it is Gold, and more than 80 points receives Platinum certification.
Federal, State, and City governments all offer different incentives for achieving a certain level of certification, including faster permit approval, reduced taxes, and other perks. However, buildings that receive high LEED rankings are built in a way that inherently reduces operating costs and boosts a building’s performance.
Now back to the five categories. The category with largest number of points possible is Energy and Atmosphere with 37 points available. A high score here will bring a project close to certification. Romtec offers several methods to achieve a high score here, and most are inexpensive. We can design passive lighting and ventilation systems that have no power requirements. There are options for high-efficiency hand dryers, LED light fixtures, and tankless water heaters, which all use minimal electricity. Romtec also can design and install photovoltaic, solar systems which can actually plug power back to the grid and earn refunds from power companies.
The next point-heavy category is Sustainable Sites with 21 available points. Romtec can’t choose your site for you, but we can help with the “heat island effect,” which is judged in this category. Using specific reflective materials, our engineers can design buildings that will not trap and store heat for periods of time that extend beyond sunset.
Indoor Environmental Quality offers 17 possible points. This category can receive points from Romtec’s passive lighting and ventilation. Bringing in outside air and natural light is important to improve indoor air quality and views.
Your project could receive as many as 14 points from the Materials and Resources category. On Romtec’s ES models, tilt-up SIP (structural insulated panel) construction generates very little waste. Most SIP waste can be recycled easily and arrives precut for quick installation. SIPs are also excellent insulators, maintaining appropriate building temperatures, reducing indoor noise level, and further limiting the “heat island effect.”
Finally, Water Efficiency bolsters 11 possible points. Romtec manufactures waterless restrooms, which are the ultimate in efficiency! But if your project does need water, we can reduce it! We can supply high-efficiency toilets, touchless faucets, and waterless urinals. We can also design and install rain water collection systems for a variety of purposes like landscape watering.
The 10 bonus points can be earned in categories of Innovation of Design and Regional Priority. Romtec is willing to engineer custom buildings with efficient and effective green designs to earn bonus points. You can look up your area and see the green priorities for your project by looking here.
We at Romtec wish you a happy Earth Day! Please feel free to contact Ryan Smith, our national sales manager, to see how your project can gain LEED certification at a surprisingly low cost.
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CPRS 2012 is in the Books!
Romtec, Inc. salesman, Travis Olson, returned this week from the California Park and Recreation Society –CPRS– Conference, rejuvenated by the cooperative California sunshine. As pleasant as the weather was, the real bright spot for Romtec occurred inside of the Long Beach Convention & Entertainment Center.
This event marked the first opportunity for Romtec to communicate our new pricing options based on the newly configured standard models. News of the new lower prices was met with continual excitement from California city managers and parks officials. Patrons of the Romtec booth were also excited that the new lower prices would be available when purchasing through Romtec’s CMAS –California Multiple Award Schedule– contract.
“People were enthusiastic about the new prices because many people who stopped by the booth talked about the effect budget cuts had on their agencies,” said Olson. “They’re going through budgets with a fine-tooth comb to prioritize projects. Some of them have been cut by 10 million dollars, so they’ve got to be real selective about how they spend available funds. The lower prices help. They can maybe fit in a project that there was no room for before.”
As overall attendance for the conference was up this year, Travis handed out the entire supply of booth swag and gave out more business cards than he has seen to date. We are hopeful this was a good experience for our continued relationship with the parks and recreation personnel in California.
A special thanks needs to go out to the organizers of this conference for providing a terrific atmosphere for social networking. There were many opportunities outside of visiting booths to interact and meet with business connections and good people in the industry. The Segway tour, evening of comedy at the Laugh Factory, and the poker pub crawl were all a lot fun for conference participants, and I have first-hand knowledge that Travis enjoyed them also.
Thank to everyone who stopped by our booth! Feel free to contact Romtec anytime with your questions about restrooms and other utility park structures. We look forward to seeing you at the next CPRS Conference!
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Roseburg and Romtec Repair Damaged Restroom.
A Romtec, Inc. restroom building owned by the City of Roseburg was badly burned recently in a suspected arson. Tracy Pope, a representative from the City Parks Department, said that the fire did an estimated $10,000 dollars worth of damages to the building. The fire started when several garbage cans were removed from nearby enclosures and dragged into the restroom building where they were ignited by means not yet determined.
The cost to repair the building was a concern for the Parks Department because the restroom building was not covered by the City’s insurance. When Romtec’s National Sales Manager, Ryan Smith, learned about the vandalism, he immediately worked out a proposal with Romtec’s President, Tim Bogan, to donate a portion of the materials needed to repair the torched building.
Pope said that she was surprised by the proposal because little time had passed when Romtec approached to help. She was also surprised by the quantity of materials that Romtec agreed to donate. These materials are a door and hardware, two Lexan windows, a sink and faucet, a toilet with flushvalve, metal roofing, plywood, and fiber-reinforced plastic.
A local roofer, Bryan Warren of Bryan’s Roofing of Sutherlin, stepped forward to donate the labor for roofing the restroom. The remainder of the labor for installation and cleaning will be funded by the City’s general fund.
Situations such as this can be stressful and complicated, but it does serve as a nice reminder that in many instances communities really do strive to support each other through difficult times.
“It’s always been Romtec’s desire to support the local community,” said Bogan. “We live, work, and breathe in Douglas County.”
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Romtec, Inc. is a national designer, manufacturer, and supplier of pre-engineered public restroom buildings and other public utility structures. We also provide turnkey installation. Romtec, Inc. is a privately owned company founded in 1977. Romtec, Inc. is located at 18240 North Bank Rd. in Roseburg, Oregon. We can be reached at 541-496-3541 or by visiting www.romtec.com.
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Romtec goes to CPRS 2012!
This week, Romtec is making eager preparations for the upcoming California Parks and Recreation Society Conference. With snow falling as I type, we are keeping a furtive eye toward the circled date of March 19th when Romtec will travel to sunny Long Beach, California. We have given our booth a dry run and added new photos from selected CMAS projects. Everything is coming together nicely for this year’s CPRS Conference.
Our sales representative, Travis Olson, will be manning our booth. This is Travis’s second major conference he’s managed for Romtec, and he’s a veritable guru of the public restroom building. He is primed with some exciting new information that Romtec will be introducing at the CPRS Conference.
If you are joining in the fun, our booth is going to be open Wednesday and Thursday (3/21, 3/22) of the conference, so please visit us at booth #250! We want to inform new customers how to avoid the lengthy bidding process by purchasing direct from Romtec’s CMAS contract. You can even take advantage of our remarkable lead time with turnkey service. All state and local government entities are eligible to purchase. Stop by and see how simple and fast it is to work with Romtec and CMAS to purchase California public restrooms.
Feel free to ask Travis about our full offering of Romtec products, including concessions, kiosks, ticket booths and guard houses, log pavilions, restroom-showers, and more! This is a great opportunity to connect with all the contributors in the parks and recreation industry. What are you looking forward to about this year’s CPRS Conference?
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Our New MarCom Director
Romtec welcomes its newest employee, Greg Ekborg! He is joining Romtec and Romtec Utilities as the new MarCom Director, completing our Creative Department. Brad Clifford and Billy Burt comprise the rest of the department by generating web and written content respectively. This addition represents a big step forward for the Romtec companies, which value digital marketing as primary source for reaching out to customers.
“My primary work experience is doing marketing through digital media: graphic design, videos,” said Ekborg, “I think there’s a lot we [Romtec] could be doing to simplify our message for our customers.”
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Pacific Southwest Maintenance Management Training School
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For the 4th year in a row, Romtec had the honor of attending the Pacific Southwest Maintenance Management School (PSMMS) at Lake Arrowhead, California. For the 2nd year in a row we were also the sole sponsor of the softball game on Wednesday afternoon. The school is an intense, week-long workshop teaching management, budgeting, and much more to park and recreation managers from all over the Southwest and Western United States. Participants come from Texas, Arizona, New Mexico, Nevada, Utah, Colorado, Wyoming, of course California, and other western states sometimes as well.
Each year on Wednesday, they hold a small vendor fair luncheon with a handful of vendors invited to set up displays outside in the Southern California sunshine and amidst the beauty and grandeur that is Lake Arrowhead. Read more
