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Convia Honored for Innovation, Energy Savings at Greenbuild as a BuildingGreen Top Product of the Year

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PHOENIX, AZ – November 12, 2009 – Convia/A Herman Miller Company’s energy management platform has been named by the editors of Environmental Building News and GreenSpec® as a BuildingGreen Top-10 Product for 2009. The company was honored with the award today at the United States Green Building Council’s (USGBC’s) annual Greenbuild International Conference and Expo in Phoenix.

Now in its eighth year, the award competition recognizes the most innovative and exciting green building products added to the GreenSpec® Directory, the leading national directory of green building products, or covered in Environmental Building News in 2009. The Convia platform, which was featured in Environmental Building News’ July issue, was chosen from hundreds of products. Its energy conservation benefits and savings can help organizations qualify for funds from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act [1] and contribute toward LEED certification.

Recently selected as the lighting control provider for pre-built offices as part of the multi-million dollar Empire State Building retrofit project, Convia allows for the integrated control and monitoring of plug load, lighting, HVAC/thermostat set points from a simple and intelligent controls and management platform. With control and monitoring of office plug loads provided through its partnership with Wiremold/Legrand, the “Convia-enabled” technology provides for maximum space flexibility and effective energy management from everything from the building infrastructure to the individual workstation. This whole-building level of control enables a facility to adapt to the ever-changing needs of the people and organizations who occupy it for ongoing performance optimization.

[1] Instated on February 13, 2009 by the American government, The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act will provide a $256 million investment to improve the energy efficiency of the American economy.

About Convia, Inc.

Convia, Inc./A Herman Miller Company, seeks to advance energy management strategies and change the way people design, build, personalize and manage space. Founded in 2006 and headquartered in Buffalo Grove, Illinois, Convia offers an end-to-end level of control that enables a building to adapt to the evolving needs of the people and organizations who occupy it while helping facility managers broaden their energy goals. Through its partnership with Wiremold/Legrand, the leading provider of modular electrical distribution components, Convia Controls are imbedded into Wiremold® ’s flexible electrical wiring systems to provide a control platform that fuels the adoption of flexible, sustainable spaces. Such platforms can ultimately reduce real estate and building operating costs while improving employee productivity. For more information about Convia, visit www.convia.com.