New Pathway Helps Streamline and Scale Health and Wellness Upgrades across Portfolios
NEW YORK, Sept 26 (Bernama-BUSINESS WIRE) -- The International WELL Building Institute™ (IWBI™) announced today the first participants in WELL Portfolio™, a new streamlined pathway for WELL Certification™ for multiple new or existing buildings and tenant spaces in a single portfolio. Being released as part of the WELL v2™ pilot, the latest iteration of the WELL Building Standard™ (WELL™), it is part of a suite of enhancements to WELL that addresses growing demand across the building industry for a program that helps owners, developers and tenants streamline and scale health and wellness upgrades to their real estate assets. The announcement quickly follows the launch of WELL v2, the second iteration of IWBI’s pioneering WELL Building Standard. The addition of an early phase review process enabling projects to seek the WELL D&O™ designation, introduced in WELL v2, allows portfolio projects to move through the certification process in a more streamlined and systematic fashion across their asset base, with a specific focus on policies, programs and procurement guidelines. The WELL Portfolio Pathway will encourage owners to treat achieving WELL as a journey and not a destination, and to make incremental improvements across their portfolios over time, tracking their progress along the way. Tenants, developers and investors from Europe, North America, Australia and Asia have all expressed interest in pursuing the WELL Portfolio Pathway. Many have already used WELL for individual buildings and are now looking to bring the same value and evidence-based performance to their portfolios – exemplifying their commitment to improve the health and wellness of people at scale. Following roundtables, expert-led discussions and stakeholder engagement, organizations from across the globe have committed to piloting a sample portfolio of qualifying buildings. Their hands-on participation in the development of this pathway through the pilot process assures a program that will deliver immediate and measureable benefits to both these early adopters and those who come after. These organizations include, among others: Barclays Brandywine Realty Trust CBRE Global Investors and CBRE Charter Hall Forest City Realty Trust Gro Investa JLL Asia Pacific The Lendlease managed Australian Prime Property Fund (APPF) Commercial Miron Construction Co., Inc. Prologis, Inc. Shaw Industries SL Green Realty Corp “The excitement around the WELL Portfolio Pathway among the world’s real estate leaders speaks volumes about the need to use our buildings as part of the toolkit to improve our health and enhance our well-being,” says IWBI CEO and Chairman Rick Fedrizzi. “Organizations know that effective change is delivered at scale, and that is the driving force behind this initiative.” mrem.bernama.com/viewsm.php?idm=32797
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SINGAPORE, Sept 25 (Bernama-BUSINESS WIRE) -- Global market research company Euromonitor International shared insights on how companies can tap into the Indonesian market at its first conference for Indonesia at Pullman Jakarta Central on September 25th.
According to Euromonitor, Indonesia has the largest number of middle-class households amongst ASEAN countries, representing 30 percent of the households in 2018. Big cities in Sumatra will have the highest penetration of middle class households by 2030. “This fact offers a sizeable market potential for companies to tap into Indonesia,” says Adhitya Nugroho, research manager at Euromonitor. “Medan, Bandar Lampung and Padang will be the top three big cities in Indonesia, with almost 50 percent of its population enjoying annual incomes between USD10,000 to USD25,000,” he added. Travel is set to be one of the fastest growing category in the country, increasing by 49.2 percent by 2023. Led by the millennials that are more inclined to spend on travel than other demographics, the will of spending on convenience and experience is marking an unprecedented growth in travel in Indonesia. Furthermore, the smartphone penetration that reached 142 percent of households in 2017, is supporting the young generation to spend more on holidays planning. Celebrating its 20 years in South East Asia, Euromonitor is looking forward to sharing market insights to maximise business opportunities in a trendsetting region and country. To receive the presentations on Trends & Opportunities in Indonesia and the wider ASEAN region, please visit: https://bit.ly/2xk5HQU mrem.bernama.com/viewsm.php?idm=32785 KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 24 (Bernama) -- Malaysia’s leading communications solutions provider, TIME dotCom Bhd (TIME), has used Juniper Networks’ vSRX in rolling out its latest suite of virtual managed services for Malaysian enterprises.
TIME Managed Virtual Router and TIME Managed Virtual Firewall are designed to provide end users with on-demand provisioning. Juniper Networks, in a statement, said these services optimise network scalability and mobility, while reducing the high costs of physical infrastructure. Through TIME’s new virtual managed cloud services, Malaysian enterprises and their customers are able to implement cost-effective network scalability, while retaining robust security protection. “We are delighted to continue our strong partnership with Juniper Networks, which has allowed us to offer the Malaysian market these new Virtual Managed Services,” said chief technology officer of TIME, Ang Thing Jiun. “Our customers no longer need to purchase or maintain costly, physical hardware infrastructure – without having to sacrifice high-performing networking capabilities,” added Ang. For years, TIME has closely partnered with the US-based company to deliver broadband connectivity to end users across Malaysia. As businesses increasingly move workloads into the cloud however, TIME recognised a need to give Malaysian companies greater flexibility to easily add, drop or change services seamlessly through a simple online portal. --BERNAMA KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 25 (Bernama) -- Toshiba Electronic Devices & Storage Corporation’s new four-channel power amplifier for car audio, the TCB503HQ, delivers strong resistance to power surges.
Higher reliability is able to be achieved because of Toshiba’s proven development capabilities in ICs for car audio. The product supports 6V operations suitable for vehicles equipped with idling reduction systems and helps suppress the popping sounds that occur when power voltage fluctuates. Other features include a built-in filter to improve resistance to extraneous high-frequency noise and to prevent the generation of abnormal noise even when there is high-frequency noise from mobile phone radio waves and adjustment of door mirrors. Sample shipments start today, said a statement, with mass production scheduled to begin in the first quarter of 2019. For more information, visit https://toshiba.semicon-storage.com -- BERNAMA KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 26 (Bernama) – Eastspring Investments Bhd has declared a gross income distribution of 0.0446 sen per unit for its Shariah-compliant unit trust fund, Eastspring Investments Dana Dinamik.
In a statement here today, it said all unitholders who have maintained their unit holdings in the fund as at Sept 25, 2017 will be entitled to the income distribution. “At Eastspring Investments, we have a positive outlook on the Malaysian economy for the year driven by improved trade flows, domestic private consumption and rising capital expenditure. “Overall, we think that the country's economic health is in good shape and market valuations are also inexpensive. We believe that there are still opportunities out there and good stock selection is the key to outperformance.” said Chief Investment Officer, Rudie Chan. Eastspring Investments is one of the leading asset management companies in Malaysia in both institutional and retail, with over RM40 billion in assets under management in the country as at June 30, 2017. -- BERNAMA KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 28 (Bernama) -- Shandong - a coastal province in eastern China - is welcoming overseas-educated Chinese students home to start their own businesses.
Governor of Shandong, Gong Zheng in his invitation said Shandong - with 145 universities and colleges -- firmly believes that while development is the top priority, talents are the most important resources and innovation is the premier driving force. To attract more overseas-educated scholars to Shandong, the 10th China Shandong Domestic and Overseas High-end Talents Exchange Fair is slated on 29 to 31 October in Weihai, Shandong.The fair has been held for 9 sessions in a row, a statement said. With themed "Gathering global talents, promoting quality development", the fair is expected to be a diversified, specialized and well-targeted international event that encompasses factors including talents, ideas, projects, technologies and financial capital. “We work unremittingly to improve the policies for recruitment, training and use of talents, and upgrade the relevant mechanism and institution so that Shandong can become a fertile ground for talents,” he said in the invitation. As a platform connecting Shandong with domestic and overseas high-caliber professionals and projects, the event offers an important opportunity for talents across the world to get to know, come and participate in the development of the province. Shandong is also expected to set an example for rural revitalization, give higher priority to marine industry, and serve as a powerhouse for opening up. Acting upon the important instructions of Chinese General Secretary Xi, Shandong is implementing the major program to foster new drivers of growth and build a modernized economic system with focus on high quality development and supply-side structural reform. Shandong accounts for nearly 1/10 of the GDP, 1/8 of the industrial output and 1/4 of the agricultural export of China. In 2017, the GDP of Shandong reached 7.27 trillion yuan; general budget revenue topped 600 billion yuan; foreign trade was nearly 1 trillion yuan; the number of market entities exceeded 8 million. (1 yuan = RM0.60) --BERNAMA KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 28 (Bernama) -- PureCircle, the world’s leading producer and innovator of stevia sweeteners and its North Carolina farmer partners will soon harvest its first commercial-scale crop of Starleaf™ stevia grown in the US.
Stevia is a naturally sweet plant native to South America. Today, it is grown around the world, especially in Kenya, China and the US. The sweet-tasting parts of the stevia leaf are up to 400 times sweeter than sugar. PureCircle’s proprietary Starleaf stevia contains more of the best-tasting stevia sweeteners, such as Reb M, than other stevia plant variants, a statement said. Following successful Starleaf stevia plot trials in North Carolina in 2017, PureCircle and a number of farmers in the state increased the amount of acreage dedicated to stevia by tenfold this year. The quality and yield of that Starleaf stevia met PureCircle’s standards and the company plans to increase significantly the acreage used to grow stevia in the US over the next two to three years. The North Carolina program is enabling PureCircle to broaden and diversify its supply chain by increasing the amount of Starleaf stevia grown in different areas around the globe throughout the year. This gives food and beverage companies further confidence to launch global brands with PureCircle’s best-tasting stevia leaf sweeteners like Reb M. PureCircle chief executive officer, Maga Malsagov said: “Our partnerships in North Carolina will significantly increase our supply of Starleaf stevia plants grown in North America and thereby geographically diversify our stevia plant supply. “We currently have three strong farming partnerships in North Carolina, and we expect to bring many more farmers into our program. We could not be more pleased with this year’s results,” Malsagov added. Fortunately, the North Carolina farms growing the Starleaf stevia plants were not damaged by Hurricane Florence which tragically ravaged some areas of the Carolinas. Stevia leaf extract is a natural, zero calorie, high-intensity sweetener, used by global food and beverage companies as a great-tasting zero-calorie alternative to sugar and artificial sweeteners. More details on www.purecircle.com --BERNAMA KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 27 (Bernama) -- Tinubu Square has added three sales experts to consolidate its international market presence in Europe, North America and Asia-Pacific region.
The three vice presidents of sales are Ronan Cloarec, VP Receivables Finance Sales Europe; Daniel Fitzgerald, CPCU, VP Insurance Sales North America and Puneet Mehta, VP Receivables Finance Sales APAC. The leading provider of credit insurance, surety and trade finance solutions said the objective is to enhance communication with its existing customers and to roll-out its integrated enterprise solution platform in SaaS mode alongside major accounts in targeted markets. “We are planning to work with talented collaborators, renowned within the sector for their experience, skills and networks of influence during this new growth phase. We are convinced that they will actively contribute to the future success of Tinubu Square,” said Deputy Chief Executive Officer of Tinubu Square, Olivier Placca. According to the company’s statement, Ronan Cloarec will be responsible to develop and manage major bank accounts in Europe, drawing from his experience in the digital transformation of financial institutions. Daniel Fitzgerald will develop sales in the credit insurance and surety market in North America with 30 years’ experience working within the property and casualty industry plus 20 years’ experience with technology sales focused on improving insurance company operations. Puneet Mehta will also develop sales in the financial institution markets in the Asia-Pacific region with more than 15 years of experience in selling software solutions to major international accounts. Tinubu Square has built an ecosystem of customers in over 20 countries worldwide and has a global presence with offices in Paris, London, New York, Montreal and Singapore. More details on www.tinubu.com --BERNAMA KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 24 (Bernama) -- Behavox, a pioneering artificial intelligence data analytics firm, will host an event focusing on the benefits of cloud adoption and its related compliance issues for the financial services industry on Sept 26 in Singapore.
The panellists for the discussion on these benefits to enable financial services organisations transform the way data can be used across an organisation, comprise representatives from Behavox and Standard Chartered’s cloud engineering team. Behavox is winning important contracts with leading financial institutions, including government-affiliated entities, across the Asia-Pacific region, a statement said. Its machine learning software enables firms to search and generate immediate insights from enormous amounts of employee-generated data, including emails, text messages, trade data and voice calls, all tracked in real-time. Behavox has built the first behavioural operating system with an eventual focus extending beyond compliance into areas such as productivity, culture and revenue generation. Among those who have confirmed to attend the event are financial industry leaders, regulatory figures and other senior representatives from the world of finance in Singapore, comprising senior management, legal, compliance and technology experts from the industry. Attendance at the event is limited to the extensive network of professionals that are part of the Behavox Compliance Community. More details at www.behavox.com. -- BERNAMA KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 26 (Bernama) -- Recent findings from Europe’s largest running lung cancer screening trial, the NELSON study, demonstrated that the use of computed tomography (CT) screening with a unique nodule management protocol led to a 26 per cent reduction in deaths among lung cancer patients at eight years of study follow-up.
The findings was presented by Harry J. De Koning, M.D., Ph.D., professor of Public Health & Screening Evaluation, Erasmus Medical Centre, Rotterdam, Netherlands, at the International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer’s (IASLC’s) 19th World Conference on Lung Cancer (WCLC). The study was made to assess the effect of CT screening, in combination with increasing screening intervals, on lung cancer mortality, a statement said. “These findings show that CT screenings are an effective way to assess and manage nodule volume in lung cancer patients, often leading to detection of suspicious nodules and subsequent surgical intervention, and can positively impact survival rates,” said Dr. De Koning. Meanwhile, recent findings from the PACIFIC trial found that durvalumab demonstrates statistically significant and clinically meaningful improvement in overall survival (OS) compared with placebo for patients with Stage III, unresectable non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) who have not progressed after chemoradiotherapy (CRT). “Results of PACIFIC provide compelling evidence for the unprecedented benefit of durvalumab treatment as the standard of care in this patient population,” said Scott J. Antonia, M.D., Ph.D., department chair of the Thoracic Oncology Department at the H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute in Tampa and Professor of Oncologic Sciences at the University of South Florida College of Medicine. “Durvalumab offers the first major advance in this disease setting in many years, offering new hope to patients with Stage III, unresectable NSCLC without progression after CRT,” added Dr. Antonia. Today’s press conference at the IASLC’s 19th WCLC featured some of the year’s most innovative research in both small cell and non-small cell lung cancer, as well as groundbreaking data which demonstrated an advancement in disease treatment not seen for many years. More details available at www.iaslc.org and https://wclc2018.iaslc.org. -- BERNAMA |
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