One of the first steps to increasing your company’s productivity may be found in the design and functionality of your office space and how it is used by your employees. Many research studies have found a direct correlation between office space and productivity. Cushman & Wakefield and CoreNet Global recently sponsored a research study of corporate real estate executives thoughts on how to foster innovation in the workplace. One of the key findings was that if you promote collaboration among employees you can achieve better work results.
More than two thirds of the study respondents rated the quality of the physical environment as important and 34.7% saw a need to change their physical environment to improve face to face collaboration. Other results also point to the need for office collaboration-93.5% ranked “in-person interaction and human contact” as the most important contributor to innovation.
Your current office space design may be very traditional with rows of cubicles, offices with doors and a conference room or two. How can you transform your current office space to promote more productivity and collaboration? The cost of reconfiguring your entire office space and replacing office furniture may be unrealistic based on your current operating budget. Or you may need to lease additional office space to effectively rework your office layout to have more collaborative spaces and conference rooms.
Redbird LED is pleased to announce that LED lighting industry veteran John Gilmore has joined their sales and management team as the new Vice President of Sales. Redbird LED is an Atlanta, GA. firm that specializes in the design, manufacturing and distribution of premium energy efficient LED Linear Replacement Lamp products. Previously, John Gilmore was leading the LED Lighting sales efforts for SEESMART LED. In his new role, John will spearhead the sales and marketing of RedBird LED Tube Lights to lighting distributors, major national corporations, state and federal agencies, retailers and institutional owners throughout the United States.
Jonathan Eppstein, President of Redbird LED said, "We are excited that one of the most successful sales professionals in the country of LED Tube Lights has joined RedBird LED. John's commitment to RedBird validates our belief that there is a large demand for premium quality- high performing LED Linear Replacement Lamp products. The recent certification by the DesignLights Consortium for both our 22 watt and 18 watt Cardinal Linear Replacement Lamp products, which prequalifies them for many energy rebate programs, was a key factor in John's decision to join our firm at this time. Culminating several years of development and testing, the Cardinal LED Linear Replacement Lamp has become first, second, and still the only LED tube light in the world to receive DLC Certification."
In his previous position with SEESMART, a leading LED lighting distributor, John was responsible for managing the lighting sales operations, marketing strategy development, introduction of new products and managing key client accounts. During his tenure , sales revenue increased 92% to $11.5 million in 2011. Over this same time period his personal sales volume exceeded $7 million, including two of the largest LED Tube lighting contracts, Pasadena City College and General Services Administration. His previous clients included; Department of Defense (Army, Navy, and Air Force), Homeland Security, Department of Justice (correctional facilities), Department of General Services (City of Los Angeles), airports, schools, universities, and various municipalities throughout the US.
"I'm absolutely thrilled to be part of RedBird LED", says John Gilmore. "Jonathan is a brilliant engineer with a great vision. The fact that Redbird is exclusively focused on building the finest LED linear replacement lamps allows me to continue to build on my experience in marketing products in this category. Our plan is to leverage the Cardinal lamp's quality and DLC Certification to become the number one LED tube supplier in the world over the next year. Having the 18W tube on the DLC's qualified product list will allow us penetrate the massive fluorescent tube retrofit market, which has become a more immediate need with the recent obsolescence and subsequent unavailability of the older T12 style fluorescent tubes. Adding a rebate incentive to the basic energy savings, will allow the customer to see a complete payback in less than 1 year in many cases.
Over the past 5 years I have learned a tremendous amount about LED linear tubes. When I met with Jonathan and reviewed the RedBird LED technical data, the decision to make the move was very easy. It is truly the best LED tube in the world today!!"
About RedBird LED - Redbird LED is an Atlanta based designer and manufacturer of LED linear lights. Their company mission is to focus exclusively on providing quality LED linear light solutions to their customers. Redbird LED's core technology is in their premier linear LED light, designed and engineered specifically for retrofits of traditional fluorescent tube lights.
This past friday, Governor Deal announced that State Farm, the largest insurance firm in Georgia, is expanding- leasing almost 400,000 square feet of office space at the 64 East Perimeter Center and 66 East Perimeter Center office buildings. State Farm anticipates hiring 500 employees for their new customer service/sales center.
This is great news for our city. The same day, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution featured a large screaming headline about Georgia ranking as the number one state for residential foreclosures. An easy headline to write, but the State Farm announcement is very important for many reasons. For the real estate industry this is one more major office space lease that takes a large available amount of contiguous office space off the Perimeter Center office market. The Atlanta economy will certainly benefit from these new jobs which will include clerical, technical and management positions.
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported that, "The financial, professional and business service industries account for about one-fifth of Atlanta’s 2.3 million jobs and have added roughly 11,000 positions during the last year."
The news from State Farm represents another large increase in professional sector jobs for Atlanta. “Obviously, three years into this economic recovery we still have a very soft labor market in Atlanta and nationwide,” said Roger Tutterow, an economics professor at Mercer University. “So we readily welcome 500 jobs in any capacity.”
This is the third time in the last 12 months that State Farm has expanded and announced new job creation. “This expansion is just another way State Farm continues to adjust to meet the changing needs and preferences of our customers," said State Farm Senior Vice President Tim McFadden. State Farm is currently ranked No. 43 on the Fortune 500 list of largest companies and has more than 65,000 employees.
The State farm customer service center is expected to open in the Fourth Quarter of 2012.
Memphis-based Terminix, a leading national provider of pest
and termite services, recently signed a new office space leasing agreement with
their landlord to remain in their current office space. Working with their
leasing agent, they were able restructure their current office space lease and
an early extension for 15,762 square feet for their regional contact center in
Norcross. Terminix will not only reduce their rental costs by 20 percent , they
will also receive capital for improvements to the entrance and lobby of the their office.
Many companies are looking to reduce their real estate costs
by taking advantage of current market pricing and conditions. A creative way to
do this is to restructure your current lease through an Extend and Blend
leasing agreement. The Extend and Blend is simple amendment to a current lease
that extends the length of the lease and usually includes additional incentives
from the building owner. These incentives can include reductions in rental
rates, operating expenses and in some cases tenant improvements.
Redbird LED, an Atlanta, GA. firm that specializes in the design, manufacturing and distribution of energy efficient LED linear lighting for parking garages and commercial buildings, has completed a parking garage LED lighting retrofit project for Buckhead Marketplace. Buckhead Marketplace shopping center is located near the center of the prestigious Buckhead residential and commercial district and is anchored Whole Foods. Buckhead Marketplace underground parking garage provides direct, secure and weather free access to the Whole Foods store.
The perimeter of Buckhead Marketplace parking garage is now brilliantly illuminated with the Redbird LED Vapor Tight Luminaries (40 watt). Redbird LED selected this product to enhance the lighting of parking spaces and walls along the periphery of the parking garage. The field adjustable illumination pattern allows the walls to be washed with light without any glare to pedestrians. The Vapor Tight Luminaries have a 50,000 hour lifetime, which reduces maintenance and energy costs for the shopping center owner. The Redbird LED parking garage LED lighting uses high efficacy linear light modules with controlled directional intensity which can be adjusted as needed on installation. The directionality of the Vapor Tight Luminaries was a key feature to provide the right lighting for the parking garage walls.
In addition to energy savings, LED lighting provides many advantages for parking garage owners. LED lights contain no harmful mercury so they do not need to be recycled; they operate much better in cold weather than fluorescent lamps and are more resistant to damage. “LED linear lights were a great solution for the Buckhead Marketplace project. The quality of the lighting has been enhanced and they will realize energy savings for many years” said Jonathan Eppstein, President of Redbird LED.
For more information on the Redbird LED Linear Lighting products please visit their website at www.redbirdled.com.or call 678.733.2473
Callaway Home Theater based in Alpharetta ,has been custom designing unique custom home theaters for almost 20 years. They are proud to represent the fine line of Crestron Products in Atlanta. They have designed numerous home theaters that are centered around the Crestron controllers and systems. Callaway Home Theater works very closely with their customers to develop a design and install not only a home theater but a complete home automation system.
For more information on line up of Crestron products please view their video below
Atlanta, Georgia (June 28, 2010) – Redbird LED, an Atlanta, GA. firm that specializes in the design, manufacturing and distribution of energy efficient LED linear lighting products for industrial and commercial applications announced today that it has received the ETL Listing Mark for their products. The complete family of Cardinal™ brand linear lights, including a variety of lengths, color temperatures, and wattages are now certified to UL standards 1993, 1598, 1598(B), and 8750. These lights have an internal power supply and this listing confirms that the Cardinal™ lights are certified for retrofits of existing fluorescent light tubes. Because Cardinal™ linear lights use the same shape and form factor as fluorescent tubes, old fixtures can updated to LED by simply bypassing the ballast and installing Redbird LED linear lights.
The ETL Mark is an independent certification that Redbird LED products meet all national safety requirements. Moreover, the ETL Mark indicates that Redbird LED’s production facility conforms to tight production standards and will be continually validated with regularly scheduled inspections.
Intertek, the organization that provides the ETL Mark, is an internationally recognized testing laboratory recognized by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) to test products to the specifications of applicable product safety standards – such as those from
Underwriters Laboratories (UL™) and other testing organizations. With this ETL listing Redbird LED becomes one of the few U.S. based LED companies with products that are certified to UL standards 1993, 1598, 1598(B), and 8750.
“We are excited that our LED linear lighting products have successfully completed the ETL testing at Intertek,” said Jonathan Eppstein, President of Redbird LED. “Having this certification opens the doors to many new opportunities for our LED linear lighting products and provides an important differentiation between our LED linear products and those of our competitors. This is an important step in our growth to become a leading provider of value priced high performance LED lighting.”
About Redbird LED- Redbird LED Inc. is led by an experienced team of senior executives with strong backgrounds in operations, electrical, optical and mechanical engineering. The Redbird LED team includes licensed Professional Engineers (PEs), LEED accredited professionals and LC certified lighting designers, and an operations team with decades of experience in the design and operation of high volume, automated, electronic device manufacturing. Redbird LED is committed to providing its customers quality LED lighting products and systems for both new construction and retrofits of fluorescents, metal halide and incandescent systems.
In addition to manufacturing and selling LED lights and luminaires, Redbird LED provides lighting design services, lighting cost analysis, and has the ability to produce custom luminaires in their in-house fabrication facilities. For more information please call (678) 733-2473 or visit the website www.redbirdled.com. Redbird LED Inc. is located at 1202 Gail Drive NE, Atlanta, GA 30319, in Dekalb County, metropolitan Atlanta.
