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Tarkett collaborates with Clean Hospitals

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Led by professor Didier Pittet, World Health Organization expert from the faculty of medicine of Geneva University Hospitals (Switzerland), Clean Hospitals is a not-for profit association that brings together the industry, members of academia, hospitals, governmental bodies and key stakeholders from various countries.

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Reshoring Initiative gains steam, more needs to be done

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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. i only stayed 1 semester, but traveled during the weekends and breaks, and afterward took the train along the coast for 3 weeks. But there was a train strike so we missed our connection on the border.

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Exclusive: Boen and Somerset—A dynamic duo

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A few months ago Bauwerk Group, a Switzerland-based manufacturer of hardwood flooring that also owns the Boen brand, purchased the prefinished side of Somerset Hardwood Flooring , the company founded by Steve Merrick in 1990 as a supplier of unfinished goods. The prototypes we saw when I was in Switzerland last week were beautiful.

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The Bauhaus and Me

Life of an Architect

One of the main differences between then and now is that I’ll be sleeping in a hotel rather than on a train, but the other difference, and probably the more important one, is that I have been preparing for this trip by reading a bunch of books and doing a lot of preparatory research.

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The Bee Hole of an Architect | Life of an Architect

Life of an Architect

Architects get our training starting in studios in college where a group of college aged kids spend way too much time together in very small quarters. Let’s just say that some of the things said here in our office in Switzerland, make your stories seem very clean.