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9 to 5 Seating Achieves LEVEL Certification

9 to 5 ‘s entire product line earned GREENGUARD Indoor Air Quality Certification issued by the GREENGUARD Environmental Institute. The GREENGUARD Indoor Air Quality Certification Program assures that products designed for use in office environments and other indoor spaces meet strict chemical emissions limits. Contribute to healthier interior environments. Add points for LEED Certification. Offer

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KAD Associates at the Bergen Business Expo

KAD Associates presented a booth at the Bergen Business Expo on May 8th.  We showed a Conset sit to stand desk, a Sit On it Novo task chair, SAFCO Synergy Ball, AIS Volker Cube, and gave away an AIS Natick task chair to a lucky winner. It was a wonderful day meeting new people.

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What if you had to reserve your desk at work?

When you “go to the office” there’s an understanding that you’ll work at the same desk every day. Your spot … where you’ll sit in your chair and see pictures of your dog and your kids. But at some companies, there is no assigned seating. Instead, employees must reserve a work space every day —

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Say Hello to New AIS Products!

Rutland Stool and Perch Now Orderable Height-adjustable stools and perches promote the comfort and health benefits of changing postures throughout the day. Use low stools for quick conferencing in classrooms, offices or patient exam rooms. Taller options fit perfectly into today’s sit-stand environments and for short-term counter-height seating. Check out the product sheet here.  

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Corporate Real Estate Executives Are Altering Workplace Strategies

Current workplace strategies are shifting to meet the needs of today’s hyper-connected and mobile workforce, finds a new report from global commercial real estate services and investment firm CBRE. CBRE’s 2018 Americas Occupier Survey finds that 52% of corporate real estate (CRE) executives anticipate implementing some level of unassigned seating in the workplace within the next three years

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Landscape Forms Lighting Wins Red Dot Award

Kalamazoo, MI – April 9, 2018 – Landscape Forms announces that Torres lighting has just won a 2018 Red Dot Award for Product Design. This is the second award that Torres has received since its launch. Torres, designed by industrial designer Rodrigo Torres in collaboration with lighting designer Chip Israel, is a graceful, minimalist design that quietly

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AIS Reopens Renovated New York City Showroom

AIS, a leading manufacturer of commercial office furniture and seating based in Massachusetts, recently reopened its renovated New York City showroom located at 257 Park Avenue South in Midtown Manhattan. . Redesigned to reflect the evolving ways that people work, the 7,334-square-foot space on the third floor of a 20-story building erected in 1912 showcases

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The Next Great Building Material Could Be Sand From Deserts

Did you know we’re running out of the gritty sand that’s used to make concrete? [Photo: courtesy Finite] Researchers at the Imperial College London have invented a new building material that uses smooth desert sand–useless for construction until now–instead of the gritty sand needed to make concrete. Finite–the name of the material invented by post-graduate students

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6 Famous People Who Used Standing Desks

The standing desk fad hasn’t always been a fad; in fact, it has deep roots in the evolution of the workstations we know and use now. Standing desks surfaced in the 18th and 19th centuries–early proof can be found in an 1883 Popular Science article, advising professionals to get a “telescope-desk” at ”the first symptoms of indigestion.”

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