MENOMONEE FALLS, Wis.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan 14, 2025--
The Elvari ® Washroom Accessories Collection by Bradley Company, innovator of commercial restroom products for more than 100 years, has received the prominent 2024 GOOD DESIGN® Award. The internationally recognized award is presented by The Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture and Design in cooperation with the European Centre for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies. The Elvari Accessories Collection earned a winning designation in GOOD DESIGN’s Bath/Accessories category.
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Elvari Washroom Accessories elevate the look of today’s commercial washrooms by creating an elegant and unified aesthetic while maximizing user functionality. Offering the widest selection of washroom accessories available, such as soap and paper towel dispensers, grab bars, mirrors and more, Elvari accessories feature a common euro style pill-shaped design with smooth curves and soft edges. When specified throughout a washroom, the Elvari collection delivers the perfect blend of symmetry and harmony to integrate spaces.
GOOD DESIGN is renowned as the world's most prestigious and oldest product design award program. Founded in 1950 by architects Eero Saarinen, Charles and Ray Eames, and Edgar Kaufmann Jr., GOOD DESIGN recognizes outstanding product design, innovation and sustainability among new consumer products designed and manufactured in Europe, Asia, Africa, and North and South America.
“Bradley is thrilled to have won the prestigious 2024 GOOD DESIGN Award for Elvari Washroom Accessories,” said Jon Dommisse, vice president, business development & strategy, Bradley Company. “Two hallmarks of good restroom design are high aesthetic appeal and functionality. The cohesive collection of Elvari accessories scores high on both counts.”
“Elvari’s minimalist and harmonious design will enhance any commercial setting, such as boutique hotels, high-end retail stores, upscale restaurants or corporate offices. Designers no longer have to settle for industrial and institutional looking washroom accessories.”
Design features enhance maintenance and usability
To expand designers’ visions for restroom design and increase flexibility, Elvari accessories are available in multiple brushed finishes, including Black, Nickel, Stainless, Brass, Bronze and Satin Stainless. These resilient finishes are easy to clean and fingerprint- and corrosion-resistant for long-lasting beauty.
Additional maintenance enhancing technology, such as reliable touch-free operation, refill indicators, and anti-jam features keep Elvari accessories running smoothly and ensure they are well-stocked for continuous usage. Models are available in many sizes, capacities and mounting styles to fit the needs of any restroom.
In addition to GOOD DESIGN, the Elvari Collection has been recognized with seven other product design awards.
For more information, visit https://www.bradleycorp.com/elvari-washroom-accessories and https://www.chi-athenaeum.org/.
For more than 100 years, Bradley has been known as the leader in advanced commercial washrooms and comprehensive emergency safety solutions that make public environments hygienic and safe. Bradley introduced the WashBar, the industry’s first and most specified multi-function touchless handwashing and drying fixture. Washroom accessories, partitions, HDPE and phenolic lockers, as well as emergency safety fixtures and electric tankless heaters round out its product range. Based in Menomonee Falls, WI, Bradley Company, a subsidiary of Watts Water Technologies, serves commercial, institutional and industrial building markets worldwide. www.bradleycorp.com.
Bradley's Elvari® Washroom Collection, winner of the prestigious 2024 Good Design Award, includes a wide selection of accessories with a sleek and curvilinear shape in a variety of beautiful finishes that resist fingerprints. From dispensers to grab bars to mirrors, Elvari helps designers create an elevated, stunning and unified aesthetic in bathroom spaces, while enhancing user functionality. (Photo: Business Wire)
WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge Thursday cleared the way for a New York offshore wind project to resume construction, a victory for the developer who said a Trump administration order to pause it would likely kill the project in a matter of days.
District Judge Carl J. Nichols, an appointee of President Donald Trump, ruled construction on the Empire Wind project could go forward while he considers the merits of the government’s order to suspend the project. He faulted the government for not responding to key points in Empire Wind’s court filings, including the contention that the administration violated proper procedure.
Norwegian company Equinor owns Empire Wind. Spokesperson David Schoetz said they welcome the court's decision and will continue to work in collaboration with authorities. It’s the second developer to prevail in court against the administration this week.
The Trump administration froze five big offshore wind projects on the East Coast days before Christmas, citing national security concerns. Trump has targeted offshore wind from his first days back in the White House, most recently calling wind farms “losers” that lose money, destroy the landscape and kill birds.
Developers and states sued seeking to block the order. Large, ocean-based wind farms are the linchpin of plans to shift to renewable energy in East Coast states that have limited land for onshore wind turbines or solar arrays.
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul applauded the court decision, telling reporters the projects had been “stopped under the bogus pretense of national security.”
“When I heard this I said one thing: I’m the governor of New York, if there is a national security threat off the coast of New York, you need to tell me what it is. I want a briefing right now. Well, lo and behold, they had no answer,” she said.
On Monday, a judge ruled that the Danish energy company Orsted could resume its project to serve Rhode Island and Connecticut. Senior Judge Royce Lamberth said the government did not sufficiently explain the need for a complete stop to construction. That wind farm, called Revolution Wind, is nearly complete. It’s expected to meet roughly 20% of the electricity needs in Rhode Island, the smallest state, and about 5% of Connecticut’s electricity needs.
Orsted is also suing over the pause of its Sunrise Wind project for New York, with a hearing still to be set. Dominion Energy Virginia, which is developing Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind, plans to ask a judge Friday to block the administration’s order so it can resume construction, too.
Trump has also dismissed offshore wind developments as ugly, but the Empire project is about 14 miles (22.5 kilometers) offshore and the Sunrise project is about 30 miles (48 kilometers) offshore.
The fifth paused project is Vineyard Wind, under construction in Massachusetts. Vineyard Wind LLC, a joint venture between Avangrid and Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners, joined the rest of the developers in challenging the administration on Thursday. They filed a complaint in District Court in Boston.
In contrast to the halted action in the U.S., the global offshore wind market is growing, with China leading the world in new installations. Nearly all of the new electricity added to the grid in 2024 was renewable. The British government said Wednesday it secured a record 8.4 gigawatts of offshore wind in Europe’s largest offshore wind auction, enough clean electricity to power more than 12 million homes.
Robin Shaffer, president of Protect Our Coast New Jersey, said the Trump administration was right to stop construction on national security grounds. He urged officials to immediately appeal the adverse rulings and seek to halt all work pending appellate review. Opponents of offshore wind projects are particularly vocal and well-organized in New Jersey.
Empire Wind is 60% complete and designed to power more than 500,000 homes. Equinor said the project was in jeopardy due to the limited availability of specialized vessels, as well as heavy financial losses.
During a hearing Wednesday, Judge Nichols said the government’s main security concern seemed to be over operation of the wind turbines, not construction, although the government pushed back on that contention.
In presenting the government’s case, Associate Attorney General Stanley Woodward, Jr. was skeptical of the perfect storm of horrible events that Empire Wind said would derail their entire project if construction didn’t resume. He disagreed with the contention that the government’s main concern was over operation.
“I don’t see how you can make this distinction,” Woodward said. He likened it to a nuclear project being built that presented a national security risk. The government would oppose it being built, and it turning on.
Molly Morris, Equinor’s senior vice president overseeing Empire Wind, said in an interview that the company wants to build this project and deliver a major, essential new source of power for New York.
McDermott reported from Providence, Rhode Island. Associated Press writer Anthony Izaguirre contributed to this report from Albany, New York.
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FILE - Wind turbines operate at Vineyard Wind 1 offshore wind farm off the coast of Massachusetts, July 19, 2025. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)
FILE - Wind turbine bases, generators and blades sit along with support ships at The Portsmouth Marine terminal that is the staging area for Dominion Energy Virginia, which is developing Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind, Dec. 22, 2025, in Portsmouth, Va. (AP Photo/Steve Helber, File)
FILE - A sign for the company Equinor is displayed on Oct. 28, 2020, in Fornebu, Norway. (Håkon Mosvold Larsen/NTB Scanpix via AP, File)
Blades and turbine bases for offshore wind sit at a staging area at New London State Pier, Wednesday, Jan. 14, 2026, in New London, Conn. (AP Photo/Matt O'Brien)
