8.12.10 | Los Angeles, CA | Designer-turned-mediator Leslie Kushner provides an overview of mediation, arbitration, and information about how the insertion of a clause in your contract may help you avoid litigation. No professional interior designer should be working without this safety net. This ASID lecture is not CEU accredited.
Thursday, August 19, 11:00 AM; Pacific Design Center, West Hollywood, LA, Blue Conference Center, Suite B259. RSVP: 310.360.6442
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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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7.14.10 | Washington, DC | Chia-Hui Wang received the 2010 AAHID /
Nurture Graduate Research Fellowship from the American
Academy of Healthcare Interior Designers and Nurture by Steelcase The fellowship assists new investigators in the
research aspect of their education by providing seed money for new areas of
research. Ms. Chia-Hui Wang is a
doctoral student in the School of Architecture, University of Illinois
at Urbana-Champaign. Ms. Wang’s research will focus on finding the best practice of designing
nursing stations.
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7.7.10 | Concord, CA | JAIN MALKIN INC., has joined the growing list of Advocate Firms for The Center for Health Design'sEvidence-Based Design Accreditation and Certification (EDAC) program. The firm's CEO and founder Jain Malkin sits on Board of Directors for The Center for Health Design.
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7.7.10. | The Owner's Dilemma by Barbara White Bryson and Canan Yetmen (Greenway Communications LLC 2010) explores the inefficiencies in the building industry and how best to use the power of the owner and how that power can recreate the building industry
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6.30.10 | Concord, CA | Czopek & Erdenberger is next in line to become an Advocate Firm for the Evidence-Based Design Accreditation and Certification(EDAC) program from The Center for Health Design By having 25% of its healthcare team EDAC accredited, C&E will become the ninth Advocate Firm aside one Educational Partner, and six Champion Firms.
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6.25.10 | Minneapolis, MN | InformeDesign
released new research summaries.
- Risk Factors for Dissatisfaction with the Indoor
Environment in Open-plan Offices: An Analysis of COPE Field Study Data
This study investigated the relationships between
physical variables and indoor
environment satisfaction among office workers and
compared the findings to existing office environment
recommendations.
- Survival of
Amoebae on Building Materials
This experiment investigated amoebae’s ability to survive on different
building materials samples.
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