Trade Show Exhibitor Seeks To Reduce Carbon Footprint, Start Trend

Jun 24, 2008 2:46 PM

Security provider AlliedBarton Security Services seeks to inspire other companies to take their lead on the trade show sustainability path. The company will attempt to reduce its carbon footprint while supporting important charities by exhibiting in Denver at the BOMA show but leaving its tradeshow booth in Pittsburgh.

Instead of the usual corporate display, AlliedBarton is buying furniture to create seating areas within its booth space at the BOMA 2008 Office Building Show at the Colorado Convention Center in Denver held this week. At the close of the show today (June 24), AlliedBarton will donate the new, stylish furniture to the Denver Children’s Advocacy Center (DCAC), which serves children who have been sexually abused, neglected or traumatized by witnessing violence. The multi-use furniture will create a comfortable and welcoming environment for DCAC’s at-risk children and youth.

“We are reducing our carbon footprint and supporting a very worthy organization by purchasing furniture for our trade show exhibition space in place of our traditional trade show booth,” says Bill Whitmore, CEO of AlliedBarton Security Services. “The trucks needed to transport a large tradeshow booth take a toll on our environment. This new approach allows us to be sustainable and also creates an opportunity to support a local charitable organization.”

The donated furniture, which includes sofas, chairs, a coffee table, end tables, a buffet, tables and chairs, two refrigerators and carpeting, will be used by the Denver Children’s Advocacy Center which works in the best interests of the children, providing an immediate response and ongoing support to help families recover from the trauma of abuse or violence.

“By making this donation of furniture, AlliedBarton is helping us meet our mission of hope and healing," says Gizane Indart, executive director of the Denver Children’s Advocacy Center. AlliedBarton’s sustainable trade show efforts extend beyond the elimination of a traditional trade show booth and donation to the Denver Children’s Advocacy Center. The contract security services firm is supporting BOMA’s paperless show by taking little to no literature to the convention and emailing electronic versions of the marketing pieces to show attendees visiting the booth. AlliedBarton is also providing tradeshow bags to attendees that are made of recycled materials and can be reused.

“Making a commitment to being sustainable often means being creative,” Whitmore says. “Leaving our traditional tradeshow booth at home is a little out-of-the-box, very sustainable and responsible and a different way to do something right.”

Want to use this article? Click here for options!
© 2012 Penton Media Inc.

This month in Access Control

• Targeting The Customer
• Electronic Pedigrees
• One Hero Among Many
• Who? What? When? Where? Why?
• More from September's issue