7.22.10 | New York, NY | Carnegie added Artisan and Hoop to its Xorel Embroider patterns. Used for wallcoverings, panel, and upholstery, Xorel, as the underlying base, maintains the fabric's durability and cleanability.
- Artisan evokes images of everything from ironwork to stained glass to
lace work and features stitch work that is complex and intricate.
- Hoop takes a commonplace element and integrates it into a new pattern. Hoop is
inspired by the pure forms of intersecting circles and curved shapes.
7.22.10 | Los Angeles, CA | Rottet Studio is hosting a contemporary art exhibition, "ELEVATED," showcasing artists and Pritzker Prize-winning architects. The exhibition runs through September 6 at 555 South flower, Suite 700, Los Angeles, CA. The architectural drawings section of the exhibit features work by Jon Jerde, Thom Mayne, Richard
Meier, Mark Rios and Rios Clemente Hale Studios and Lauren Rottet.
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7.21.10 | Oakland, CA | Friant and Associates is celebrating its 20th anniversary as a manufacturer of high-quality, low-cost office furniture. Founded by Paul Friant, the company has since expanded from a one-man
repair and installation service to a global manufacturing company with
international facilities and worldwide dealer representation.
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7.21.10 | Garden City, NY | WAC
Lighting will host an American Lighting Association-accredited LED/OLED
Training Session on August 5. The session will be held at WAC
Lighting's New York Showroom, 625 South Street, Garden City, NY, 9-11 am. A tour and luncheon will follow.
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7.21.10 | New York, NY | Skanska USA
Building Inc. became one of the first U.S. construction firms to have all of its
operations
certified to meet International
Organization for Standardization the Occupation Health and Safety
Assessment Series standards. Skanska achieved OHSAS18001
certification in June.
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7.21.10 | Muscatine, IA | The HON
Company received level certification from Scientific
Certification Systems for more than 60 of its products in five categories
80% of HON’s product volume is now level certified. HON’s products received both level 1 and 2 certifications.
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7.21.10 | Austin, TX | URS Corporation was awarded a contract to provide support services for the Red River Army Depot, New Boston, TX. URS will provide ongoing maintenance, repair, overhaul, modification and upgrade of vehicles, including trucks, tractors and trailers and all-terrain materialhandling equipment.
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7.20.10 | Grand Rapids, MI | True Textiles partnered with People Design to develop a marketing strategy for the company and for the Guildford of Main brand. True engaged People Design to determine the viability of the
brand, a panel fabric for the contract furniture industry and to consider expansion into other markets. Through
empathic research of new audiences, the firm introduced a point of view
with which True was not yet familiar.
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7.20.10 | New York, NY | Christina Cohen joined HBF's New York sales team. Ms. Cohen holds a B.S. Degree in Interior Architecture and has been a practicing designer for eight years. Prior to coming to HBF, she
was a Senior Sales Representative with Coalesse.
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7.20.10 | Holland, MI | Trendway received SCS Indoor Advantage Gold certification for the Pack Collection of desking, filing, and storage. All Trendway standard products are SCS certified, and the Pack
Collection
now shares Gold status with Trendway's Choices
system, Intrinsic Freestanding and TrendWall architectural wall.
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7.19.10 | New York, NY | Humanscale received LEED Gold Certification for Commercial Interiors from the U.S. Green Building Council. In addition to LEED-CI credits in the Energy & Atmosphere,
Materials & Resources, and Indoor Environmental Quality categories,
Humanscale products helped contribute to an Innovation in Design Credit
for an Ergonomics Strategy.
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7.19.10 | New York, NY | KnollTextiles
introduced Screenplay Environmental
Technology, a 100%
Earthtex thermoplastic polyolefin fabric for wallcovering. The two new patterns, Box Office and Genre, can be used as a wallcovering, a wrapped acoustical panel, or outdoor upholstery. Both come in eight colors each and are have been Cradle-to-Cradle silver certified.
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7.19.10 | Shelton, CT | Darrick Jones was named Associate at Leggette, Brashears & Graham, Inc., a professional groundwater and environmental engineering services firm. Mr. Jones will be responsible for managing the environmental needs of LBG's private sector clients. Mr. Jones is a geologist with 15 years of consulting experience in geology, hydrogeology, environmental site assessment and remediation.
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