ambitions direct issue No. 8
ambitions-direct - Issue No. 8 - 2012
From providing special customized solutions for building envelopes up to enabling students unique learning experiences during their internships - Sika finds a way!
Extraordinary
A walkway amongst the trees leads up to the hotel – a cube with a glass façade mirroring the trees and the sky, enabling it to blend seamlessly into the forest. The unique Treehotel is located in Harads, 60 km from the Arctic Circle.
The Mirrorcube
Competition
Key Project Management Competition highlights: innovative Sika solutions, contribution to landmark construction, and competence in dealing with the technical demands of complicated construction projects.
Sika promotes outstanding performance in solutions and services
Smart
Botanical gardens are mostly run by universities or other scientific research organizations and have associated herbaria and research programs in plant taxonomy or some other aspect of botanical science.
Urban nature
Sika Academy
Developing a sustainable project and promoting rehabilitation schemes for different private social solidarity institutions – this was the remit of the Ist Sika Academy Contest promoted by Sika Portugal.
Students go for social responsibility
Employees
His interdisciplinary global network has sustainable targets and is responsible for Sika’s sustainability concept and methodology for assessing and communicating product sustainability performance.
Interview with Mark Schneider
Sustainability
If you were working in Mexico City between skyscrapers and a sea of densely populated stone, how would you like it if the nearest park where you could enjoy lunch in green surroundings was just 5 floors up from your office?
Green on top
Careers
How do our youngest employees feel when they explore Sika for the first time? What are their motivations? What experiences do they take with them? We spoke to our intern Montserrat Morales about her impressions.
Successful start-up
Innovation
Sika now presents its latest innovation in structural waterproofing: SikaProof® A
Waterproofing of excellence
Customized Solution
Sika USA announces the launch of SikaSmartTM, a smarter approach to providing a single resource for integrated, compatible products and systems that produce superior protection for the building envelope.
Smart envelope
Refurbishment
Built in the 1920s, the former Head Post Office of Gothenburg, which lies in the western part of Sweden, is an impressive design masterpiece and a cultural monument from 1925 which was originally designed by the architect Ernst Torulf.
The historic and the modern go hand in hand
Company News
Sika AG recently acquired concrete admixture and cement grinding aids producer Axim, which used to be part of Italcementi Group. Based in the Northern Italian town of Bergamo, Axim generated sales of around EUR 61 million in 2010.
Attaining new heights in the concrete business