Alison Birdwell, President and CEO of Aramark Sports and Entertainment, has been selected to Sports Business Journal’s 2021 Class of “Game Changers: Women in Sports Business.” Every year the award, which debuted in 2011, acknowledges the achievements of 50 women who have demonstrating broad, deep, and varied responsibilities and contributed to the sports sector in…
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19.07.2021, 20:28 Merger to Create US $7.5 Billion U.S. Retail REIT Kite Realty Group Trust and Retail Properties of America, Inc., have entered into a definitive merger agreement. Under the terms of the proposed merger, Retail Properties of America (RPAI) which owns and opertes 102 retail properties in the United States representing 19.9 million SF…
Terminix is donating bicycles to A Soldier’s Child (ASC) Foundation which serves the offspring of fallen U.S. servicemen and women by supporting safe cycling. Following initial donations by company branches in Houston in March 2020, Terminix branches across Texas have donated 31 bicycles to 14 families under the on-going program which requires participating brances that…
23.11.2020, 22:23 Coveted ANCC Recognition for Ben Taub Hospital Ben Taub Hospital in Houston has become the second hospital operated by Harris Health System to achieve Magnet designation for nursing excellence from the American Nurses Credentialing Center. In September, the Lyndon B. Johnson Hospital, which is also owned by the State of Texas’ public healthcare…
03.11.2020, 14:55 Most Wired Virtual Healthcare Provider Harris Health has been names as one of the “Most Wired” virtual healthcare in the United States for a ninth time by the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME) for its deployment of IT to improve patient outcmes during Covid-19. In response to the threat presented by…
30.09.2020, 11:32 Aviva Investors Awards Catering Contract Houston & Hawkes have been selected for a hospitality and catering contract at Belmont House, a multi-tenanted office building in Uxbridge, west London, owned by asset manager Aviva Investors. Under the five-year contract, the caterer will provide café, hospitality and free issue services with menu options including made-on-site cakes…
17.08.2020, 10:29 UK Caterers Join Forces to Support Former Employees More than 20 companies and individuals from the food service sector have partnered to launch ‘Food Service Circle’ (FSC) in support of former employees who are suffering under the economic fallout from COVID-19. With reduced building occupancy a major concern for businesses, approximately 20%…
01.07.2020, 08:55 Safeguarding Homeless People with Covid-19 Testing Harris Health System’s “Health Care for the Homeless Program” has received US $1.3 million of federal funding to support SARS-CoV-2 testing and care for up to 1,000 vulnerable individuals I homeless shelter clinics across Harris County in Houston, Texas. The program addresses the needs of a largely underserved…
16.04.2020, 18:04 Meeting the Emergency Need for Facemasks A collaboration between Harris Health System and the University of Houston (UH) is supporting companies that are unable to fulfil emergency requests for medical face shields in hospitals caring for COVID-19 patients Faced with the challenge of ensuring supply of the critical personal protective equipment (PPE) to…
16.10.2019, 12:00 Reverse Engineering Delivers Critical Compressor Sulzer has achieved cost savings of 40 per cent for an industrial company in the Philippines by reverse-engineered a compressor essential to its operations. Modern centrifugal compressors are high-performance machines used in demanding industrial applications, ranging from powering machinery to squeezing industrial gases for storage and transportation. They deliver…
When the design team at Gensler Houston was handed a project for student housing project for Texas A&M university, it knew it needed to create something which would stand out from other residential solutions. Its solution, the Aspire College Station Luxury Student Housing block which boasts 15 storeys and 263 individual units, does that just…