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Aluminium glazing systems by manufacturer Kawneer have been designed to optimise natural light, ventilation in a series of new healthcare buildings.

Kawneer offers aluminium facade systems that are designed to minimise environmental impact, helping buildings to achieve sustainable certification.

View Comments This is a reporter’s notebook column by breaking news reporter Micaela Watts, who has spent the last year covering the COVID-19 pandemic in Memphis from her home office, until a phone call sent her into one of the area COVID-19 wards. The nurse began preparing me as we wound our way through the labyrinth of the still-new Shorb Tower at Methodist University hospital. I had been told one family member could visit a day, for one hour a day while she was in palliative care. But her...

Breaking news reporter Micaela Watts covered COVID-19 from her home for more than 13 months until her family matriarch became a pandemic casualty.

Tennessee reporter tracked months of COVID-19 deaths. Then counted her grandmother among them Micaela A Watts, Memphis Commercial Appeal These vaccine fairies are helping people in need get their COVID-19 shots Replay Video MEMPHIS, Tenn. — This is a reporter’s notebook column by breaking news reporter Micaela Watts, who has spent the past year covering the COVID-19 pandemic in Memphis from her home office until a phone call sent her into one of the area COVID-19 wards. The ...

I asked the nurse leading me, Brett, a young man with a wife and a child at home, “Have you been in the COVID unit for the entirety of the pandemic?”  Yes, he said. He had worked in COVID-19 units within the region’s two largest hospital systems, Methodist LeBonheur Healthcare and Baptist Memorial Health Care. He had managed to avoid contracting the virus in this time. It had been a long year of worrying he would infect his family. The doors of the COVID-19 unit on the sixth floor resemb...