The strategic consultancy of DEGW opens new Office in Poland Munich DEGW, February 17 -, worldwide one of the leading consulting firms in the area of workplace and corporate is expanding its presence in Europe real estate strategy. With the establishment of the new DEGW, in particular the commitment in Eastern Europe should further offices at the site of Warsaw, which was opened in early February, more, opened up new fields of business, as well as existing local customers are successfully supported. DEGW operates global strategies now almost 40 years of experience in the individual development of real estate and has offices in the most important European core markets like England, Benelux, Spain, France and Italy. The location Germany out is DEGW active for years in Eastern Europe and serves many local international companies. Claudia Hamm Bastow, head of DEGW global, prides itself on sustainable growth and is pleased about the opening of the new site: DEGW is the presence in Poland right step: with our office in Warsaw we establish ourselves permanently as a fixed size for customers in Eastern Europe. Already now, we advise many of the big players in the financial and technology industries, as well as in pharmaceuticals, and consumer goods in the development of promising workplace concepts and implement them across national borders across at a variety of locations. With a permanent presence we can serve in the future even more intensively our international customers in the region.” The expansion into the Polish market is part of a long-term growth plan.
Just in terms of the merger carried out by end of 2011 with AECOM, it was an important goal, to take advantage of existing infrastructure and expertise of the two companies and to expand its service portfolio. This allows challenges global and local customer business is continually changing an optimum adaptation and makes the strong partner for end-to-end DEGW consulting in Europe as a whole. Bogusz Parzyszek, founder of the Polish magazine OFFICE and Director added the new Office in Warsaw: straight in the Eastern European countries back more and more in people’s awareness of the issues surrounding the sustainable development of future-oriented workplace concepts. “So there is no better time to strengthen our commitment in Poland and our expertise to bring experience and creative diversity there at the market”. Evidence of a significant increase in demand with regard to expert advice around the theme of modern working and learning environments is the continuous growth of DEGW and the steady expansion of European business. In many economic and political bodies often critically discussed, rethinking the use of office buildings especially against the background of demographic change, sustainability and cost pressures is essential. Real estate and particularly work environments make the right and tailor-made concept the strategic asset, a clear competitive advantage. And this not only in terms of cost optimization, but especially to the increase of innovativeness, creativity and Productivity. A modern expectant needs work environment promotes corporate identity, employee motivation, and thus contributes to the success of sustainable and crisis-resistant.
Christiaan Neethling Barnard Dr C. Barnard Christiaan Neethling Barnard (November 8, 1922 – September 2, 2001) was a South African surgeon descendant of Baliol and Barnard Scottish families. He studied and received his doctorate at the University of Cape Town. He studied medicine at the University of “Cape”, where he graduated in 1953. He began his career as a general surgeon at Groote Schuur Hospital, Cape Town, where his older brother Marius was head of the transplant team. In 1955 he won a scholarship to join the U.S. University of Minnesota, where in 1958 he obtained a doctor specializing in cardiology. There was pupil of the prestigious Dr. Owen H. Wangesteen, who introduced him in cardiovascular science, while Dr. Shumway was familiar with the technique of heart transplants in animals, so that, upon his return from the United States, began to practice for several years with dogs.In 1962 he was appointed chief of thoracic surgery Groote Schuur hospital, where he had worked before his doctorate. I had experienced for several years with animal heart transplants following the first successful kidney transplant in 1954. Barnard performed the first kidney transplant in South Africa in 1959. Organ transplants were not a novelty at that time. The first kidney transplant was done by Dr. Varony in 1936. In 1953, Hardy performed the first lung transplant to a patient suffering from cancer, and in 1954 succeeded Murray successfully transplanted kidneys from identical twins in 1967 by a triple kidney transplant, pancreas and duodenum. In 1964, the said Hardy transplanted a chimpanzee heart of a man who died an hour after the lower volume of the organ of monkeypox. Initially working at Groote Schurr Hospital in Cape Town and then moved to U.S. where he specializes in cardiovascular surgery.He was a professor at the University of Cape Town since 1963 and known for making world on 3 December 1967 the first heart transplant in the history of surgery. The December 3, 1967, a news ticker that collected all stunned the world: a South African doctor had performed the first heart transplant a human being. The donor, Denise Darvall, a young clerk of twenty-five with his mother run over by a car. The operation, conducted by a team of twenty surgeons led by Barnard, lasted six hours. Upon awakening, Washkansky stated that he felt much better with the new heart.Doctor and patient out catapulted to fame, though eighteen days later, the morning of Dec. 21, the patient died of pneumonia induced by immunosuppressive treatment to take. On January 2, 1968 performed the second transplant. This time the recipient was Dr. Philip Blaiberg, and the donor, the mulatto Clive Haupt. The black heart of a beat for 563 days in the body of a white. From that moment, amid a controversy that kept on bioethics of such interventions (is dead who is not breathing but his heart beats ), Patients were gaining life expectancy, thanks to the immunosuppressive drug cyclosporine. In 1970 he divorced his first wife, Louwtjie, who had given him two children: Andre, who committed suicide in 1984 because of the separation of their parents (according to his psychiatrist’s diagnosis and assessment of one’s parent), and Deirdre.That same year he married the heiress Barbara Zoellner, nineteen years old, daughter of Frederick German billionaire Zoellner, based in Johannesburg, known as the “king of steel”. In 1974 conducted for the first time ever double heart transplant, which was to add a healthier heart to another patient to help fulfill the functions they already had. But his experiments in surgery would end sooner or later, in failure. In 1975, when his fame began to wane, he visited Spain to present his book, Stress, and his new wife (who had borne him two sons, Frederick and Christian), with the aim of not losing a bit of popularity in the Merranean basin, where it was most flattered. Continued to perform heart transplants. In 1979, however, refused to participate in an operation to transplant a human head to find the idea impractical, and “probably immoral. This statement will save their honor.