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Smart Plumbing Solutions: How to Make the Best Use of Your Commercial SpaceMarch 27, 2025

Smart Plumbing Solutions: How to Make the Best Use of Your Commercial Space

With vacuum plumbing, building owners can create a more inclusive, supportive, and appealing environment for their tenants without costly and disruptive renovations. Learn how to transform underutilized spaces into valuable amenities.

  • Grocery & Retail
  • Vacuum Toilets
  • Commercial Plumbing
  • Commercial Remodeling
  • Vac Benefits
  • Schools & Universities
  • Hospitals & Medical Facilities
  • Vacuum Centers
  • Architects & Contractors
Accelerating Store Renovation with AcornVac’s Efficient Vacuum Plumbing SystemJanuary 30, 2025

Accelerating Store Renovation with AcornVac’s Efficient Vacuum Plumbing System

Discover how AcornVac’s vacuum plumbing system revolutionizes grocery store renovations by eliminating floor trenching, reducing downtime, and cutting costs—Perfect for modern retail spaces.

  • Grocery & Retail
  • Grocery Store Renovation
  • Health And Safety
  • Commercial Remodeling
  • Challenging Site Conditions
Is Your Commercial Remodeling on Hold Due to Site Restrictions & Structural Concerns?February 8, 2023

Is Your Commercial Remodeling on Hold Due to Site Restrictions & Structural Concerns?

Engineers who prefer gravity waste systems cite its lower costs. But due to the structural issues and restrictive site conditions typically encountered during commercial remodeling, vacuum toilet systems are often the more cost-effective solution.

  • Continuing Education
  • Case Studies
  • Grocery & Retail
  • Polyclinic
  • Free LEED-Specific CE Hours
  • Post-Tension Slab
  • Commercial Remodeling
  • Vac Benefits
  • Schools & Universities
  • OSHA
  • Hospitals & Medical Facilities
  • CEU
  • Prisons
  • Architects & Contractors
Research Reveals the Speed & Trajectory of Toilet PlumesJanuary 26, 2023

Research Reveals the Speed & Trajectory of Toilet Plumes

Researchers from the UC Boulder environmental engineering program have found that airborne particles released by a traditional gravity toilet’s flush plume travel at speeds of 6.6 feet per second and can reach as high as 5 feet within 8 seconds.

  • University Of Colorado Boulder
  • Vacuum Toilets
  • Vacuum Health Benefits
  • Infection Control & Prevention
  • Toilet Plume
  • Hospitals & Medical Facilities
  • NSF International
  • HAIs
Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Prison ToiletsFebruary 28, 2022

Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Prison Toilets

Inmates have a seemingly endless list of creative uses for the comby—a stainless steel combination toilet and sink—found within their cells. Some—like passing contraband—can be problematic, but a vacuum plumbing system can solve that.

  • Vacuum Toilets
  • Prison Toilet
  • Uncloggable Toilet
  • Prison Design
  • Water Saving
  • Prisons
  • Stainless Steel
  • Vacuum Centers
The Sanitary Flush: Vacuum Toilet Systems & Infection PreventionFebruary 22, 2021

The Sanitary Flush: Vacuum Toilet Systems & Infection Prevention

Most people don’t think about the act of flushing the toilet, but that flush results in an aerosolized plume of bacteria—a disturbing enough thought on its own. When you factor in the prevalence of lidless toilets in public bathrooms, the potential for spreading germs and contamination becomes staggering. Vacuum toilets provide a sanitary alternative!

  • LEED Points
  • Vacuum Health Benefits
  • Vac Benefits
  • Infection Control & Prevention
  • Toilet Plume
  • Water Saving
  • Hospitals & Medical Facilities
  • Architects & Contractors
Vacuum Plumbing for Healthcare FacilitiesJuly 20, 2020

Vacuum Plumbing for Healthcare Facilities

Vacuum toilet systems reduce airborne bacteria, promoting a safer, more sanitary environment. Compared to traditional gravity systems, vacuum offers greater water efficiency and provides unique renovation benefits, making it an ideal solution for hospitals, laboratories, and other medical facilities.

  • Case Studies
  • Vacuum Health Benefits
  • Infection Control & Prevention
  • Toilet Plume
  • Water Saving
  • Hospitals & Medical Facilities
  • NSF International
  • Covid-19
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