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Mapei opens a new facility in the UK

Ceramics of Italy

The Halesowen site also hosts the Mapei Academy, which offers free training events aimed at boosting the skills of professionals and businesses. Mapei UK employs 360 people in the UK and has three warehouses in the West Midlands that supply distributors throughout the UK and Ireland.

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SkillBuild Success Story

Diary of a Tile Addict

So many, many congratulations from Tile Addict to Odhran Connelly from Southern Regional College in Northern Ireland for his recent victory at the SkillBuild 2018 National Finals in Wall and Floor Tiling. At these events high level trade skills can be recognised, rewarded, and celebrated.

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New Training Academy for Construction Professionals

The A to Z of Building

SITECH UK & Ireland, the leading distributor of Trimble® machine control technology for the heavy and civil construction industry, has launched a new training Academy to support operators.

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Ep 149: Moonlighting

Life of an Architect

This practice has become to be known as “moonlighting” and depending on your age and where you are at in your career, it is either the light at the end of the tunnel or an oncoming train. Did you know there was a phrase called “sunlighting” which is in obvious contrast to the word “moonlighting?

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Kathy Young named WFCA Luminary Award winner

Floor Covering News

Starting in a vocational office training position, she diligently worked through various administrative roles, including reception, inventory control, project planner and customer service representative. Young, the former vice president of marketing services at Shaw Industries, embarked on her professional journey in 1975 during high school.

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Reshoring Initiative gains steam, more needs to be done

Floor Covering News

These manufacturing-job-killing policies include: prioritizing degrees over skills training; allowing the U.S. These include Germany, Ireland, Netherlands, Italy, South Korea, Australia, Singapore, Switzerland and Belgium, Moser noted. In contrast to the U.S., many of the top developed countries have trade surpluses.

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Letters from a traveling Architecture Student | Life of an Architect

Life of an Architect

I also briefly told my parents of some trouble I ran into on the train – it was much worse than I let on in these postcards. of Texas part was UK, Ireland and Scotland for 4 weeks, then on to France for a few weeks then we met up with the VaTech folks. But there was a train strike so we missed our connection on the border.