DENVER, March 24, 2014 /PRNewswire-iReach/ -- IDS Group in Denver, CO has released a new range of decorative 3D wall panels and decorative 3D ceiling tiles that present a completely new concept in interior design and made in Denver, CO USA.

Here is what we find so unique about it the same panels were designed to be applied on the wall, dropped into a ceiling grid or glued up to the ceiling. The panels are designed in such a way that you can use one panel for complete layout and design or mix in several complimentary tiles that blend in to create even more unique interior decor.

Technical specs - the panels are snow white, made with special class A fire rated polystyrene, offer high thermo efficiency with R value of 3.5, enhance acoustics with NRC value of 0.25, can be painted with any latex paint, size (nominal) - 2' x 2' with 3/4" thickness.

Installation of these panels is found to be faster and easier then conventional wall panels or ceiling tiles. Wall installation is fast and easy with any foam board glue, no surface preparation is necessary; panels can be installed with or without gap between the panels. Once installed you can paint decorative wall panels to achieve desired interior colors the same way as you would paint sheetrock wall. The same technique applies to gluing panels to the ceilings. However if you are making drop ceiling with these tiles you should be able to complete the job almost twice faster. The tiles are flexible, can be cut by score and snap method with regular utility knife and are much easier to handle in general then conventional fiberboard tiles.

Check out amazing design possibilities and see how you can use it in your next project!

The nicest part is that IDS Group offers free samples, if you are not familiar with these tiles just give them a call at 303-745-2402 and request a free sample.

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Barbara Sorensen's "Topographies Installation" includes "Foothills Installation" in the foreground and "Boat Installation" in the background. PHOTOS PROVIDED BY POLK MUSEUM OF ART

When viewing installation art, you are not just admiring the details of the piece. You are also getting a feeling from being surrounded by the piece.

It's an experience that can make you feel like you're somewhere else.

When viewing the work of sculpture artists Barbara Sorensen and Dan Gunderson, you will be taken to another environment by one artist while you are taken to another state of mind by the other.

"Site Specifics," featuring the work of Gunderson and Sorensen, is on display at the Polk Museum of Art in Lakeland until June 7.

Installation art pieces are works constructed specifically for where it is being exhibited, often incorporating elements of the site as well.

Gunderson of Deland and Sorensen of Winter Park have spent the last two weeks transforming the main galleries, the lobby and the outdoor gallery to showcase their work.

Sorensen's work features very natural elements and inspiration, while Gunderson's work is comprised of found objects specifically toys often found in fast-food children's meals.

"Installations have always been around, but recently they've kind of seen a renaissance in the art world," said Adam Justice, curator of art at the Polk Museum of Art.

This is also a special exhibition for both artists, as Sorensen is a former art student of Gunderson.

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Emergency repairs at Province House completed ahead of schedule

March 20, 2014- Charlottetown, PE - Parks Canada Agency

Province House National Historic Site is ready to welcome visitors and occupants back following a brief closure to address a plaster ceiling repair in the main stairwell of the heritage building. The building will officially reopen to the public on March 24th in time for the legislature assembly to resume. Parks Canada is pleased with the efficiency demonstrated by the contractor and the project team, who wrapped up the necessary work ahead of schedule.

The Government of Canada recognizes the significance of Province House which is intrinsically tied to the founding of Canada and so is taking important steps to ensure the integrity of the building.

Province House National Historic Site will play a prominent role in 2014 when the Island commemorates the 1864 Charlottetown Conference, which was held in the iconic building 150 years ago. Parks Canada is pleased to collaborate with the province of PEI to ensure the building is open and ready to welcome visitors throughout the celebration year.

Our Government recognizes the significance of Province House which is intrinsically tied to the founding of Canada and is taking important steps to ensure the integrity of the building for Canadians. I am proud of the investments our Government has made to support national parks and Historic Sites in Canada, and we will continue to provide Canadians and visitors the ability to connect with our country's natural heritage.

Province House National Historic Site of Canada (PEI) (www.pc.gc.ca/eng/lhn-nhs/pe/provincehouse/index.aspx)

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Stately home chapel is transform with new lighting

3:48pm Thursday 20th March 2014 in News

A STATELY home chapel has been transformed following the installation of new environmentally friendly lighting to show off its ornate interior.

The family chapel at Castle Howard, near Malton in North Yorkshire, has been untouched for more than 140 years and features painted frescos depicting designs by Charles Eamer Kempe and stained glass windows by Edward Burne Jones.

The space has gilded and fluted columns and under a high, coffered ceiling based on Holbeins design for the Royal Chapel in St James Palace.

The pre-Raphaelite style Anglican chapel was decorated by Morris & Co, commissioned by Edward Howard, the younger brother of the 8th Earl of Carlisle.

The chapel has also featured as the Marchmain family chapel in both film and television adaptations of Brideshead Revisited.

The Hon Simon Howard said: It has long been an ambition of mine to light the chapel, but it had to be done sympathetically to showcase the magnificent decoration.

It was also important that the lighting was environmentally friendly, as well as economic; I am delighted with the results and the success of the project.

The chapel has always featured in the house tour, but it has been unguided. This year for the first time we are guiding the chapel to share with visitors the intricate detail and amazing stories.

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Owen Sound's Hobart Food Equipment plant gave a new commercial dishwasher to Grey Highlands Secondary School over the March Break, school principal Andrea Tang said in a news release Wednesday.

The new dishwasher was installed in the kitchen, which was freshly painted, received new ceiling tiles and a stainless steel backsplash. Staff from Hobart refinished the stainless steel counters and assisted with the technical aspects of the installation, the news release said.

Students in the school's hospitality and tourism program provide food to the school cafeteria and prepare meals for the Grey Highlands Meals on Wheels program.

This hands-on class is a great environment for those students who prefer to learn by doing rather than listening or writing, said Marjorie McIntyre, one of two teachers in the program. It really makes a difference in helping students obtain their diplomas.

Many use this experience to obtain part-time employment and others seek post-secondary training in the food services industry, the release said.

The school approached Hobart about whether it could fix its old Hobart mixer. Staff refurbished the machine and that contact led to the offer of a new machine to replace the washer, which also needed repairs.

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MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) The Soap Factory has been pushing artistic boundaries as an art gallery in the St. Anthony Main neighborhood in Minneapolis for the past 25 years.

True to form, their new exhibit Art(ists) on the Verge 5 is a program that features five Minnesota artists and their non-traditional installations.

Art(ists) on the Verge is interactive. It brings audiences together directly with artists, Soap Factory program manager Lillian Enger said. And it also allows artists to use the Soap Factory space, which is a very large gallery space, and our network and support structure for working with artists.

Emily Stovers installation General Delivery spans the space, and speaks to the way we communicate as a society. Visitors write a postcard to anyone past, present or future, then drop it into a bin that digitizes it. Another part of the installation has visitors dressing in cloaks, looking for scan-able boxes to reveal the messages.

Its about the physical movement of information through space, whether its actually mailing a postcard or an email the new ways we are sending information as we enter the digital era.

Alison Hiltners project Survival Tactics is jellyfish-like tendrils hanging from the ceiling that buzz and move, and even appear to live.

Theyre all sort of dancing with each other and communicating through the vibrations of the boards, which all have a different acoustic capacities, Hiltner said.

Peter Sowinskis Autonomous makes you the artist. People create whatever they want and it will be represented on a screen by, as Sowinski said, videos that Ive shot of actual still lives.

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Usually buzzing with students animated conversations and shuffling feet, the empty halls of Hopkinton Middle/High School fell silent yesterday afternoon. The real activity was taking place in the ceiling above, where workers from Pelmac Industries began weaving the electrical groundwork for a new system of security cameras.

Hopkinton is one of the latest school districts to install the technology, which is often encouraged by state organizations as a way to improve student and teacher safety. In recent years, video cameras have become increasingly common in public schools.

I think every school we have toured in the last three to four years has entrance cameras or is working to get them, said Mark Joyce, executive director of the New Hampshire School Administrators Association.

For Hopkinton, the cameras are seen as a way to protect students from possible intruders and to cut back on bullying or vandalism.

We hope that it is a deterrent to bad behavior and provides teachable moments, said Superintendent Steve Chamberlain. Its more for deterrent than gotcha.

At a price of $21,590, the cost of Hopkintons cameras is split between the district and a grant from the state Division of Homeland Security and Emergency Management.

The agency developed the Emergency Management Performance Grant for Schools Program under the direction of Gov. Maggie Hassan following the shooting at Sandy Hook in Newtown, Conn., said the divisions assistant director, Steven Temperino. In addition to offering money, the division has released a set of core standards to increase school safety that include surveillance, access control and emergency alerts.

Many schools in New Hampshire are very old and were never built with security in mind, Temperino said. We put these suggestions in the budgetary process . . . to develop safer schools.

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Chamberlain said the cameras being installed at the middle/high school are in line with the divisions guidelines.

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The royal commission into the Rudd government's troubled home insulation program that resulted in the deaths of four young men will begin hearing evidence in Brisbane today.

Former Labor prime ministers Kevin Rudd and Julia Gillard have been asked to provide documents to the Royal Commission into the Home Insulation Program and face the prospect of being called to appear in person before Commissioner Ian Hangar QC.

It is believed other senior Labor figures including current Opposition frontbencher Penny Wong have been contacted by the commission.

Read more about the men whose deaths are linked to the scheme, which was set up in 2009 as an economic stimulus measure to help ward off the effects of the global financial crisis.

Matthew Fuller was the first of the four young people who died working under the home insulation program.

He was 25 when he was electrocuted in a roof cavity in outer Brisbane in October 2009. His girlfriend, who was working alongside him, was badly burnt.

The young couple had been saving to move in together.

Matthew's father Kevin Fuller said his son had been laying ceiling insulation for less than a fortnight when he accidentally put a metal staple through aluminium foil and into a live electrical cable lying underneath.

"Matthew was a worker and knew that he could go and earn enough money to set up his future life," he said.

"On the day Matthew got killed, in the car was the application for Monique and Matt to move into a new rental place."

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Industry-First Product Makes Dynamic Curved Designs Possible Without Custom Fabrication

VALLEY FORGE, Pa. CertainTeed Ceilings is bending the rules of ceiling design with the introduction of Gyptone BIG Curve, the industry's only perforated acoustical gypsum panel that can achieve highly curved ceilings without the cost and time associated with custom fabrication. It seamlessly integrates with the company's other revolutionary Gyptone products to create dynamic, sweeping interior surfaces without any breaks or grid.

Bendable by Design At only 6.5 mm thick, Gyptone BIG Curve can be easily dry bent to a 10-foot radius, and can achieve up to a 5-foot radius by wet bending. Such a malleable product radically broadens the universe of design options available to an architect. It's a perfect solution for spaces that require not only breathtaking style, but sound acoustics and indoor comfort, as well.

"Gyptone BIG Curve enables avant-garde architectural design without expensive custom products or time- and labor-intensive installation," said Christine Fonock-Smith, product manager for CertainTeed Ceilings. "It's also highly sound absorptive, so function and occupant comfort never have to be at odds with cutting-edge design."

Uncompromising Acoustics The company's commitment to Environmental Acoustics design means the new product uniquely melds style, acoustical performance and sustainability. Interiors installed with Gyptone BIG Curve are meant to inspire and help people thrive.

The panels are fitted with an acoustical backing tissue and are available in a variety of striking perforation patterns, each with varying degrees of sound absorption and eye-catching beauty. With an NRC up to 0.70 and the ability to fine tune acoustics based on placement and curve radius, Gyptone BIG Curve is ideal for calming healing environments, inspirational learning spaces and engaging workplaces.

Seamless Interplay Between Ceiling and Light Gyptone BIG Curve comes in modular 2400mm x 1200mm panels, which are pre-finished in a bright white to maximize light distribution. However, the panels can be easily painted with a short nap roller to complement any palette or add an attention-grabbing burst of color. This means the entire character of a space can be redefined with just a simple coat of paint, making it extremely flexible for future updates.

Also, Gyptone BIG Curve ceilings are designed for simple integration of lighting elements, creating harmonic interplay where ceiling and light naturally blend into the collective architecture. Light fixtures and ventilation can serve as breaks in the ceiling surface, or can be pulled back into the recesses for a simple backlit design. Again, the only limit is the designer's imagination.

Industry-Leading Product Transparency Made of 85 percent recycled content and certified for low-VOC emissions, Gyptone BIG Curve contributes to sustainable building standards and helps maintain high indoor air quality. It is also covered by CertainTeed's industry-first collection of Health Product Declarations (HPDs) for ceilings solutions. By providing detailed information on the product's makeup, the HPD contributes to important materials and resources credits under the newest version of LEED, which places greater emphasis on product transparency.

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