British built-environment design and engineering company Arup is looking to partner with start-ups to design ideas that can make cities healthier, thriving places to live. The firm’s new Innovation Challenge forms part of its Venture activities, which are designed to forge what it calls ‘innovative ecosystems’ across the private and public sector to create and implement … [Read more...] about Arup invites start-ups to collaborate to create healthier cities
ECITB launches new skills strategy to support engineering construction industry growth
The Engineering Construction Industry Training Board (ECITB) has launched a new strategy to support growth in the engineering construction industry, pledging more than £87million to support workforce training and tackle labour shortages and skills gaps over the next three years. The strategy sets out a three-year plan – from 2023 to 2025 – to help bring talented new entrants … [Read more...] about ECITB launches new skills strategy to support engineering construction industry growth
Harvard University launches initiative to help commercialise science and engineering research
Harvard University has launched a new initiative designed to help speed up the translation of innovations from its labs into start-ups that bring to market products and services that address climate change, alternative energy, sustainability and a range of other global challenges. Housed in the university’s Science and Engineering Complex (SEC; pictured above) in Allston and … [Read more...] about Harvard University launches initiative to help commercialise science and engineering research
New 3D-printing process offers novel energy-storage design options
A team of engineers at the University of New South Wales has developed a process to print solid-state polymer electrolytes into any shape desired for use in energy storage. According to the research team, the 3D-printing process of such material could be particularly useful in the development of medical devices that would benefit from small, intricately designed energy … [Read more...] about New 3D-printing process offers novel energy-storage design options
New process uses cheap brines to extract silver from old PV cells
Scientists from the University of Leicester have developed an alternative process for recovering high-purity silver and aluminium from end-of-life photovoltaic (PV) cells, the functioning units of solar panels, that uses cheap solvents and is environmentally friendlier than the most common process used at present The process, developed by Guillaume Zante and his team in the … [Read more...] about New process uses cheap brines to extract silver from old PV cells