Innovative Inventions and Time-Tested Tactics

摘要

June was jam-packed for me this year, with just a week and a half separating NeoCon and the annual BOMA International Conference & Expo. Luckily, I love having a full schedule, and I made the most of it at these two shows. My team also covered AlA's Conference on Architecture right before NeoCon, bringing back even more interesting insights. I could spend hours talking about all of the cool things we saw, but these were some of the highlights: J+J Flooring Group's Network, a textile composite flooring product that combines the attributes of both soft and hard surfaces. This product was a finalist in our Product Innovations competition. When I visited the company at NeoCon to judge the product in person for the awards, I asked them to explain the context of the product withstanding 5 million foot traffics in testing. They explained that 5 million foot traffics in a facility with an average amount of foot traffic works out to about 40 years' worth of steps! Turn to page 22 to see all the other Product Innovations winners.