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Manchester Airport City plan reinvented as £ 1 billion science and tech hub

Workplace Insight

The project, now known as MIX Manchester, aims to create one of the largest science and innovation campuses in the UK, spanning an impressive 2 million square feet of advanced manufacturing and science space. Instead of focusing on out-of-town offices, the rebranded MIX Manchester will specialise in science, innovation, and manufacturing.

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Biophilic Design Is Part Of The New Normal (And We’re Not Just Talking Office Plants)

All Work

People spend most of their time in manufactured spaces that are not always designed with wellbeing in mind. Biophilic design incorporates natural elements into nearly all aspects of these manufactured environments. “The construction industry accounts for around 40 percent of the UK’s entire carbon footprint.

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Lockers: The New Unexpected Star Of Workspace Design

All Work

The construction industry accounts for 38% of all CO2 emissions. 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.

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Ultrafabrics celebrates 25th anniversary with new and improved bio-based Volar Bio collection

Workplace Insight

Volar Bio’s evolution in backcloth construction not only includes certified REPREVE recycled polyester and ECOVERO viscose in the backcloth, but introduces Susterra propanediol bio-based resin. Susterra 1,3 propanediol is a pure, petroleum-free, raw material made from regeneratively farmed U.S. Here are some market highlights.

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Landlords and occupiers don’t see eye to eye on the decarbonisation of European real estate

Workplace Insight

With many occupiers often more focused on emissions from other aspects of their businesses, such as manufacturing or supply chains, the contribution that buildings make to the aggregate 37 percent global emissions from real estate can be underestimated.

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We’ve been getting job training all wrong

Work Life

For example, manufacturing, wholesale and retail trade, education, and health services have a labor shortage. Conversely, in the construction industry, there is a labor surplus. Chamber of Commerce shows that not all industries are experiencing a shortage.

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Equity of Opportunity Fuels Business Success at the Best Workplaces

Great Place to Work

It’s why manufacturing workers at great workplaces have higher levels of satisfaction in pay and promotions than their technology peers at average companies. Or why health care workers at great companies experience better well-being compared to construction workers at typical companies. More to the point, leaders at those companies do.

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