After several years of investments in design and construction of the most recent extension phase housing its new Bio-Circle facility, Walter Surface Technologies says its entire 92,000-sf campus on the original Montreal (Pointe-Claire, ...
Tags: Consumer Electronics
Plans are underway to unveil a bike sharing system in Philadelphia in the fall of 2014. Mayor Michael Nutter has committed $3 million of the city's capital budget toward bringing the system to life, and a request for proposals is ...
Tags: Transportation, bike
The PPG Industries Foundation donated $5,000 to the [Women in Engineering (WiE) Program at The Ohio State University to support the WiE CHEER (CHEmical Engineering Rocks!) summer day camp for girls about to enter ninth grade. For a third ...
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In a bid to plug a "major skills gap" in the datacentre industry, the professional association Data Centre Alliance (DCA) has launched a bootcamp to lure unemployed graduates to work in the industry. The DCA claims that the data centre ...
Tags: Computer Products, software, Data
Furnitureland South is opening a 17,000-square-foot Design Center in existing space on it main campus here with high-tech tools and "high end-style, spa-inspired services," the retailer said. The Top 100 company said the design center ...
Tags: Furniture, Furnishing, desing center
US-based fulfillment services provider OctoChem has expanded its Midwest specialty distribution plant in Vandalia as a result of various industries addressing a growing need to handle the packaging and distribution of product samples ...
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Stouch Lighting, a lighting distributor specializing in LED lighting and energy efficient lighting products, two days ago announced the completion of Campus LED lighting retrofit project for Neumann University, which was finished in less ...
From recessed troffers to circular pendants to suspended lighting fixtures, GE's Lumination™ LED Luminaires, a product of GE ecomaginationSM, continue to push the boundaries of indoor LED lighting systems. Ultra-thin and elegant, ...
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Researchers at the Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey (ITESM) Puebla Campus in Mexico, have filed a patent to the Mexican Institute of Industrial Property (IMPI) for the collection of volcanic ash to use it ...
Tags: Textiles, volcanic ash
The American Institute of Architects (AIA) Committee on Architecture for Education (CAE) has selected five educational and cultural facilities for this year's CAE Educational Facility Design Awards. The CAE Design Excellence Award honors ...
Atlas Tire Wholesale Inc. has opened a second distribution center (DC) in western Canada and expanded an existing warehouse in eastern Canada. The new DC is in Edmonton, Alberta. Atlas also operates a DC in Richmond, British Columbia. ...
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The Massachusetts Institute of Technology never sought a federal prosecution of Aaron Swartz, the programming prodigy who was charged with stealing millions of academic papers from an online archive at MIT, according to a report by the ...
Tags: software, Computer Products
FoxFury Lighting Solutions will display its portable, rechargeable Nomad LED area lights at the College and University Police and Investigators Conference (CUPIC) from August 6-8 in Fairfax, VA. The Nomad area lights and spotlights assist ...
A collection of eye-catching stained glass installations by a Toronto artist is generating solar power in three provinces, and one of them is in the process of being hooked up to the Saskatchewan grid. "Lux Gloria" by Sarah Hall, at the ...
Healthcare providers in the United States have preconceived notions about electronic health records-namely, that EHR systems haven't lived up to their promise of transforming healthcare by improving efficiency and cutting costs. The ...