Guardian Service Industries, Inc.

Guardian Security Services is among the top-rated security services companies in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut. We provide highly trained   security guards   and   patrol officers   to a wide array of industries and in many different settings.  Our security guards frequently work in commercial buildings, residential communities and high rise buildings, hospitals, transportation hubs, and government agencies. If you feel your current security program needs improvement, please allow us the opportunity to conduct a security assessment to provide you with an expert analysis of your property's safety and security program.  Our experienced professionals will evaluate your current program and provide recommendations. Furthermore if you are in need of a new program, we can develop an integrated plan to cover your needs. Our focus is to provide you with recommendations that fit within your budget.   Remember, at Guardian, you get a "...

Staten Island Revitalization  Guardian was very honored to take part in celebrating the 87th anniversary of the St. George Theater which honored David Barry, President of Hoboken, NJ, based Ironstate Development Company and the Chief Executive Officer of Urby as well as Frank Siller the founding member, Chairman & CEO of the Stephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation.  About the Red Carpet Gala The annual Red Carpet Gala serves as the principal fundraiser for St. George Theatre Restoration Inc. and features a pre-show cocktail reception, Georgie Award presentation to honorees  The   Stephen Siller / Tunnel to Towers Foundation  and  David Barry  of URBY, and an after- party in the grand and mezzanine lobbies with open bar, hors d’oeuvres, and dance music. Since the theatre’s reopening as a non-profit organization in 2004, past gala performers have included Tony Bennett, Smokey Robinson, Gladys Knight, Jay Leno, Pink Martini,...

Guardian Security Service is among the top-rated security services companies throughout the tristate providing highly trained  security guards  and  patrol officers  to a wide array of industries and in many different settings.  We provide highly trained security guards and patrol officers to a wide array of industries and in many different settings and our security guards frequently work in commercial buildings, residential communities, hospitals, transportation hubs, and government agencies. Depending upon the security services you require, guards can be put on patrol to supervise the front door for large organizations, oversee transportation security, or protect cash or valuables. We can also assist you with security services for neighborhood patrols, shopping malls, religious institutions, universities, gated communities, parking lots, apartment buildings, art galleries, and many more important venues. If you feel that your current security program ne...

By  EILENE ZIMMERMAN On a Thursday night in October 2013, Simon Brooks packed his belongings and drove west toward Silicon Valley, thinking he was on his way to creating the next Scrabble app, a word game he called Gadzookery. He had little to lose. Mr. Brooks owed more on his house in Louisville, Ky., than it was worth. His marriage was over and he had been working in restaurants and bars for two years, ever since the financial crisis forced him to leave his job as a mortgage broker. “I put my dogs and my bags in the car and drove to the Dojo,” Mr. Brooks said. He was referring to  Hacker Dojo  in Silicon Valley, a community space for technology start-ups whose members (fees generally start at $125 a month) have round-the-clock access. The hacker space proved to be the key to his new enterprise — just not in the way he had imagined. Mr. Brooks arrived with $12,000 and a rough version of his educational word game. He hoped to assemble a team at the Dojo to help...

ENERActive Solutions, an Edison Energy company, today announced that it has been chosen by the New York City Department of Citywide Administrative Services (DCAS) to conduct audits and retro-commissioning projects on municipal buildings throughout New York City. ENERActive’s consultation will ensure that DCAS complies with New York City’s Local Law 87 (LL87), which requires buildings over 50,000 gross square feet to undergo periodic energy audit and retro-commissioning measures to help building owners and managers measure and develop an action plan to save energy. “It is an honor to partner with DCAS on this very exciting and important project in the initial phase of audits and recommendations,” said Dan Weeden, president and CEO, ENERActive Solutions. “Our mission is to offer solutions that will ensure compliance with LL87 and provide forward-looking plans that will allow these important facilities – such as schools, public transportation depots and hospitals – to utilize ene...

LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) is an internationally recognized green building certification system,  providing third-party verification that a building or community was designed and built using strategies aimed at improving performance across all the metrics that matter most: energy savings, water efficiency, CO 2  emissions reduction, improved indoor environmental quality, and stewardship of resources and sensitivity to their impacts. Developed by the  U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) , LEED provides building owners and operators a concise framework for identifying and implementing practical and measurable green building design, construction, operations and maintenance solutions. LEED is flexible enough to apply to all building types – commercial as well as residential. It works throughout the building lifecycle – design and construction, operations and maintenance, tenant fitout, a...

Patricia Kirk Energy-efficient buildings have lower operating costs , but also tend to command higher rents and enjoy higher occupancy and tenant retention levels than traditional buildings. A recent  Energy Efficiency Survey , developed by the Institute of Real Estate Management (IREM) in collaboration with the Institute for Market Transformation, looked at what motivates office building owners to improve energy performance. The survey focused on how financial methods used to evaluate capital expenditures impact decisions to invest in improving energy efficiency. IREM and the Building Owners and Managers Association (BOMA) distributed the survey to their members and received 307 responses, which represented 1.7 percent of the total survey distribution. The survey found that most respondents use simple payback calculations to evaluate energy efficiency projects, usually basing decisions on recovering the investment in one to two years. The study revealed that this simple...