The U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) announced today that its membership has voted to adopt LEED v4, the next update to the world's premier green building rating system. The final overall vote was 86 percent in favor of adopting LEED v4. ...
Tags: Green Building, Construction, Decoration
Once again Suez Cement is the main sponsor of the 20th INTERBUILD exhibition that will be held on 20-24 of June at the Cairo International Conference Center in Nasr City. Held under the patronage of H.E. Hisham Qandil, INTERBUILD ...
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The U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) announced it will once again join Enterprise Community Partners (Enterprise) and the Institute for Professional and Executive Development (IPED), an affiliate of Nixon Peabody LLP, to co-host the ...
Tags: Construction, Decoration
AATCC in collaboration with Bangalore-India based TecniTex Nonwovens Pvt Ltd., is organizing a major international conference in Mumbai October 1-2, 2013. This conference is unique in that it not only provides a platform for cutting- edge ...
Ethical Fashion Initiative (EFI), a programme of the International Trade Center (ITC), highlighted the role of fashion as a catalyst for economic growth in Africa at the 5th Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD V) ...
Tags: Textile, Responsible Fashion
The U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) announced recently that nearly 100 building projects across the globe are already using LEED v4, the next version of the LEED green building program, by participating in the LEED v4 beta. The beta ...
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Hanley Wood LLC and the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) announced recently a strategic partnership whereby Hanley Wood has acquired the Greenbuild International Conference and Expo. USGBC will continue to produce Greenbuild’s ...
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LayTec is happy to announce to have signed a strategic OEM agreement with Evatec Ltd. (Switzerland, www.evatecnet.com) – a leading supplier of thin film deposition systems to semiconductor and optics. LayTec will equip Evatec with ...
Tags: LayTec Evatec, Lights, Lighting
Japanese consumer electronics giant Panasonic Corp. announced Monday its technical team developed a solar lantern with high powered LED lights that also operate as a charger for small electronic appliances, which are especially carried by ...
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According to Egypt State Information Service, Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi has called for the expediting of the Suez Canal Corridor Development project given its positive effect in supporting the Egyptian economy, attracting investment ...
Tags: Canal Corridor Project, Mineral
Epiwafer foundry and substrate maker IQE plc of Cardiff, Wales, UK has launched the new division IQE Wireless, which will provide a complete ‘one-stop shop’ for radio frequency (RF) wireless epitaxial wafer materials. The new ...
Tags: IQE, Dedicated Wireless Products
May 2, 2013 - The IEEE International Conference on Smart Grid Communications (SmartGridComm) has extended the Call for Papers deadline to May 19, 2013, for its 4th annual event be held October 21-24 in Vancouver, B.C. The transformation ...
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The two-day international conference on low-carbon solutions for the textile industry in Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) economies held in Taipei, Taiwan, saw several consensus being reached by the APEC members for green solutions ...
Tags: Textile Sector, Textile
Tokyo-based Hitachi Cable Ltd says that it has developed new mass-production technology for gallium nitride (GaN) templates (see Figure 1), in which a high-quality gallium nitride (GaN) single-crystal thin film is grown on a sapphire ...
Tags: Hitachi Cable, GaN substrate, Electronics
Oil-linked prices for liquefied natural gas are not rational given the diverse sources of supplies coming from North America and Australia or via pipeline from Russia, the chief executive of Japan's largest utility, Tokyo Gas, said ...
Tags: Oil-Linked LNG Price, Chemicals