Boon Edam has been delivering a sustainable building product to the market in making available to society a highly effective means to save energy consumption within buildings, through the design, manufacture and supply of revolving doors. This section contains Green news from around the world in relation to Green entrance construction.

2008 Green Building Survey – Fighting Obsolescence - USA

A Special Research Report from National Real Estate Investor, Lodging Hospitality and Retail Traffic

Green Investment Pays Off - Learn how green initiatives in commercial real estate buildings are gaining traction with government officials, corporate real estate developers, and corporate users. Energy savings is now a key driver for business/purchase decisions.

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Alternate Alternatives - ed+c (environmetal design + construction) - USA

Identifying exactly what is going to inspire someone to come up with the next great idea is clearly an inexact science. There are stories about how the simplest of observations spurred such great inventors as Leonardo da Vinci, Nikola Tesla and Thomas Edison. But when it comes to one consistent way of new ideas being formed, perhaps the adage from Plato “necessity is the mother of invention” best fits the bill.

If that adage is true, then there’s no better time than now for new methods of supplying energy to the world to emerge. We at ED+C have kept an eye out for alternative sources of energy and have found a few worth sharing.

Energy-Generating Revolving Door

This little gem came our way during Greenbuild and had us buzzing. Royal Boon Edam Group Holding has developed an energy generating revolving door for the Driebergen-Zeist railway station in the Netherlands. The TQM revolving door was designed not only to save energy, but also generate energy with every person passing through the door.

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Energy-generating Revolving Door - USA

Boon Edam, a market leader in entrance technology, recently introduced the world’s first energy-generating revolving door.
The door is part of the newly-refurbished Driebergen-Zeist railway station in the Netherlands. Architects and engineers designed the entire station with an eye toward energy conservation and sustainability.

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YMCA keeps its swimmers warm with a pool-covering dome - USA

The dome, or the bubble as it is jokingly called by the life guards, uses propane to keep from getting foggy inside and about eight blowers to keep it up during the day. It has revolving doors to trap the heat inside.

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Going green saves MIT green - USA

When it comes to changing the ways energy is produced and used, MIT has long been at the forefront of research. Now, in addition, students, faculty and staff are working hard to put improvements in energy efficiency into practice on campus.

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Similarly, encouraging people to use revolving doors instead of swinging doors which let out eight times as much heated air), to use two-sided printing whenever possible to reduce waste, turn off lights and computers when they are not in use, and similar personal measures can have a big overall impact if enough people do them.

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UNL Cutting Costs - USA

Small efforts can add up to big savings when it comes to cutting costs.

The University of Nebraska-Lincoln is hoping this rings true with their new efforts to cut electrical consumption.

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But the university is already trying to save every little way possible, including asking students and faculty to use revolving doors when their an option. It's just one way they're trying to cut utility costs.

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Revolving doors to save energy at centre

Revolving doors are being added to Spalding's South Holland Centre to make the building more energy efficient.
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South Holland District Council head of economic and community development Sue Bolter said revolving entrance doors will help save heat and also form part of a new lobby refurbishment at the start of next year.

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Are Revolving Doors More Energy Efficient? - USA

My office building just had its entryway refurbished. Now, we have a huge revolving door flanked by two regular, swinging doors. I heard somewhere that revolving doors are supposed to make heating and air conditioning more efficient. Is that true, or can I use the regular doors guilt-free?

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Catalysts for Change - USA

You’ve seen the stickers: "Please Use Revolving Door." Why? Eight times as much air is lost when a door swings open as when it spins. Four M.I.T. students considered that fact in a sustainable planning class in 2006.

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Super Brand Mall should close doors - CN

Why is it that the Super Brand Mall in The New Pudong Area refuses to control its entry/exit doors, meaning keep them closed?
During this very warm season, the cold conditioned air can be felt flowing from these doors several meters to the outside - this is a terrible wast of energy regardless of who is paying for the utility cost.

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Students help MITEI ‘walk the talk’ on energy - USA

Dan Wesolowski looked out from the second floor of MIT's Building E25, watching in dismay as students and faculty alike ignored signs to use the revolving door below him and save energy. Person after person coming from the nearby Kendall Square subway walked through the swing door to the side of the revolving door.

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Revolving Door - Sustainability - USA

Thank you for saving energy
On average 8x as much air is exhanged when a swing door is opened as opposed to a revolving door. That's 8x as much new air that needs to be heated or cooled and that's why using the revolving door is a great way to reduce energy requirements on campus.
Why should I use the revolving door?

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If you don’t use the Revolving Doors, we could hit 70 ºF – USA

The photo to the right was taken inside the 1818 Market Street building, which urges its inhabitants to use the blender-like revolving door instead of the electronically operated handicapped doors in an effort to "conserver energy".

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Smart Cooling - IN

Use of technology for optimum guest satisfaction is an imperative in the service industry and maintaining the air conditioning,the room temperature and the humidity becomes an inevitability. With a little planning, hoteliers can control expenses and bring in cost-effectiveness.

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Touchdown SFO - USA

The airport also claims to be 30 per cent more energy-efficient through its revolving doors that provide air lock minimising heat loss.

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The open-door policy - UK

When I wandered into Waterstone's in Harrogate recently the temperature outside was just 2C. The shop doors were propped open, heaters were pumping out heat and the assistants were wearing fleeces to keep warm. When asked why the doors were open, we were told the company had an "open-door policy".

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It’s an open and shut case - UK

Shops in London are wasting huge amounts of energy by leaving their doors open to entice customers.

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Hospitals, firms sign ‘green’ pact

Fifty-three hospitals, hotels and department stores with a total of 166 locations signed an energy-saving agreement yesterday to reduce their contribution to carbon dioxide emissions, pledging to cut electricity consumption by 5 percent within three years.

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