Monday, December 21, 2009

North Carolina’s New ‘Green’ McDonald’s Uses QA Graphics’ Educational Touchscreen

The third blooming McDonald’s restaurant in the U.S. opened July 14th in Cary, North Carolina, and is application Quality Automation Graphics’ Energy Efficiency Education Dashboard (EEED) to brainwash the accessible on the restaurant’s bread-and-butter and ecology benefits. This McDonald’s is endemic and operated by Ric Richards of Richards Advantage, Inc., a 20-year-old McDonald’s authorization alignment with assorted restaurants in North Carolina.

The Energy Efficiency Education Dashboard was apparent at the restaurant’s admirable opening, July 14, and is displayed in the antechamber as a blooming apprenticeship apparatus to appearance the accessible added about the restaurant’s blooming features. An EEED is a graphical user interface (GUI) that can affectation non-live abstracts or abide data, such as a building’s ability use. A aggregate of photo-realistic cartoon and non-live abstracts is acclimated on this dashboard.

The EEED is displayed on an alternate LCD blow screen, area users can browse through a Web-site like affairs to apprentice about the blooming appearance acclimated throughout the building, how they advice the ambiance and why it’s amount effective. An alternate 360-degree agenda bout of the architecture shows admirers the acceptable appearance used, including the LED (Light Emitting Diode) Lights, Solatubes that accommodate natrural light, electric car allegation stations, recycled countertops, flooring, décor and more. Local busline routes and acquaintance advice for buses, bike and banal paths are aswell provided. After acquirements about the blooming features, users can analysis their ability with a ‘green’ quiz. All of the advice is arresting in both English and Spanish.

“It’s advantageous to see the accessible collaborate with the EEED and appearance such action about a building’s blooming initiatives,” said Dan McCarty, admiral and architect of Quality Automation Graphics. “At the admirable opening, anybody was aflame to collaborate with the activity dashboard, from a 5-year-old, to the customers, the accepted public, even Ronald McDonald.”
Richards chose the EEED band-aid to brainwash the accessible on the restaurant’s sustainability practices. “Everyone’s all-embracing acknowledgment to the dashboard has absolutely brought the WOW agency to a new level,” said Richards. “The blow awning hits barter appropriate in the face if they airing in the restaurant. It’s so different and different; humans are walking appropriate up and affecting the dashboard appropriate away.”

The new architecture is registered with the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) for Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design® (LEED) as allotment of the LEED for Retail Pilot program. Details from this architecture activity and over 80 added pilot activity teams will be acclimated to actualize two new LEED for Retail appraisement systems to be launched after this year.

A audience of the EEED can be beheld at: http://www.qagraphics.com/mcdonalds/#.

About Quality Automation Graphics
Quality Automation Graphics is an avant-garde computer clear development aggregation specializing in the architecture automation architecture industry. The aggregation is an industry baton in the architecture of graphical user interfaces (GUI) and activity ability education, alms custom clear architecture solutions including clear outsourcing, 3D design/animation, alternate agreeable and full-service Web website development. Please appointment www.qagraphics.com to apprentice more.

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