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EU approves major funding increase for new circular economy and clean energy projects

Workplace Insight

They aim to support biodiversity, nature restoration and a circular economy while contributing to the clean energy transition across the continent. On the clean energy transition, seven projects will set up 16 new one-stop shops facilitating energy renovation for thousands of homeowners across five EU countries. Clean energy.

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Where’s Your Visitor?

The Receptionist

In your manufacturing facility, you likely have areas—such as receiving, production, and shipping—that are off-limits for certain personnel and visitors. Depending on what you produce, you may also have clean rooms, climate-controlled areas, or storage for hazardous materials.

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Fewer Americans filed for unemployment benefits last week than expected

Work Life

The number of Americans filing new applications for unemployment benefits dropped more than expected last week, but volatility around this time of the year as automobile manufacturers idle plants for retooling makes it harder to get a clean read on the labor market.

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Going In Circles? Good!

All Work

We want our spaces to stand out, so we highlight recently developed and technically superior products that last longer, clean easier and provide flexibility. Designers encourage product manufacturers to include recycled content, lower VOCs, streamline manufacturing processes and track embodied carbon.

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Lockers: The New Unexpected Star Of Workspace Design

All Work

It’s important for product designers and retailers to understand their embodied carbon emissions , which relate to the manufacturing, processing, transportation, assembly, maintenance, replacement, and deconstruction and disposal of goods. 80% of Teknion’s component parts are manufactured in-house, they add. “For

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SAP Labs Offices – Porto Alegre

Office Snapshots

This is reflected both in the Environmental Certification – LEED Gold – and in the industrialization of the vast majority of the solutions in the project, which aimed to have most elements manufactured offsite and only assembled onsite – allowing for a fast, 13-month clean construction process.

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This Is What Real Leaders Do

Tanveer Naseer

It’s a fundamental truth of successful leadership that Billy Ray Taylor keenly understood when he took over the role of plant manager for the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company’s manufacturing plant in Fayetteville, North Carolina. And he achieved this in some rather surprising and unexpected ways.