UK FIRES: Locating Resource Efficiency at the heart of Future Industrial Strategy in the UK
Lead Research Organisation:
University of Cambridge
Department Name: Engineering
Abstract
Resource Efficiency is essential for reducing the environmental impact of manufacturing. Progress in achieving it has been slow, but a rapidly changing international context, including Brexit, is giving new emphasis to Industrial Strategy in the UK which creates a unique window of opportunity. This transformational Programme aims to locate resource efficiency at the heart of a visionary industrial strategy; it will create new world-leading competitive advantage for UK manufacturing by addressing four fundamental barriers to progress:
- to break out of lock-in to resource inefficiency, novel methods and tools will be developed to enumerate and characterise all today's options to design and manufacture material goods;
- to create clarity about the environmental impact of new manufacturing strategies, a ground-breaking Physical Resources Observatory will be developed to access and interpret more and better global resource data;
- to target manufacturing innovations for Resource Efficiency and accelerate their implementation, the features of an effective Innovation Pipeline will be characterised, tested and deployed with a portfolio of promising emerging manufacturing technologies;
- to give new priority to Resource Efficiency in Industrial Strategy, new metrics and decision-framing will be developed and tested in the Living Lab of the Programme's industrial consortium.
The Programme brings together nine internationally-leading academic groups and a consortium of subscribing industrial partners. The management strategy, designed for flexibility, aims to integrate existing methods from diverse disciplines to address the application of Resource Efficiency while stimulating exploration of new methodological opportunities where existing approaches are inadequate. The value of the investment in the Programme will be maximised through an International Advisory Panel to support connections and awareness, a consortium executive committee to determine priorities for strategic analysis, and a supervisory board to ensure financial and legal compliance. The programme will deliver impact via quarterly strategic analysis reports on resource issues, a programme of policy influence led by an experienced Policy Champion, technological innovations, an annual UK Forum on Resource Efficiency, commercial and open-access software tools, researcher training and multi-channel communications.
- to break out of lock-in to resource inefficiency, novel methods and tools will be developed to enumerate and characterise all today's options to design and manufacture material goods;
- to create clarity about the environmental impact of new manufacturing strategies, a ground-breaking Physical Resources Observatory will be developed to access and interpret more and better global resource data;
- to target manufacturing innovations for Resource Efficiency and accelerate their implementation, the features of an effective Innovation Pipeline will be characterised, tested and deployed with a portfolio of promising emerging manufacturing technologies;
- to give new priority to Resource Efficiency in Industrial Strategy, new metrics and decision-framing will be developed and tested in the Living Lab of the Programme's industrial consortium.
The Programme brings together nine internationally-leading academic groups and a consortium of subscribing industrial partners. The management strategy, designed for flexibility, aims to integrate existing methods from diverse disciplines to address the application of Resource Efficiency while stimulating exploration of new methodological opportunities where existing approaches are inadequate. The value of the investment in the Programme will be maximised through an International Advisory Panel to support connections and awareness, a consortium executive committee to determine priorities for strategic analysis, and a supervisory board to ensure financial and legal compliance. The programme will deliver impact via quarterly strategic analysis reports on resource issues, a programme of policy influence led by an experienced Policy Champion, technological innovations, an annual UK Forum on Resource Efficiency, commercial and open-access software tools, researcher training and multi-channel communications.
Planned Impact
The key scientific drive of this proposal is the delivery of impact. The academic research programme has been designed around a Living Lab comprising a consortium of subscribing industrial partners, the research team and other relevant stakeholders. The Living Lab will create an evolving dialogue between the methods and applications of the Programme to give clear direction research needs and to maximise the impact of the work. In order to deliver impact in practice:
- The Programme team will deliver professionally written and designed quarterly strategic reports on current priority topics identified by consortium partners, for their use in addressing immediate strategic decisions and to gain feedback on priorities for research development
- Consortium subscriptions will be used entirely to fund project PhD students to apply methods developed in the research to specific contexts, to validate the methods and drive new developments.
- An annual one-day UK Forum on Resource Efficiency will be organised to engage the full stakeholder community in Resource Efficiency across the UK in order to foster new connections, share emerging research ideas, and create new connections.
- A highly qualified "Policy Champion" employed by the Programme will design and lead delivery of focused policy workshops based on Programme outputs to carefully targeted Resource-related audiences across Whitehall and Westminster.
- Publications designed for industrial audiences, deriving from the Programme's academic output, will be disseminated through networks activated by consortium partners to influence future research and development agendas.
- Software implementing a Physical Resources Observatory, the core activity of Challenge 2, will be developed and released as open-access code and data to allow a broad community of resource analysts to experience, apply and enhance the outputs of the Programme directly.
- Software to support enumeration of the performance of existing design, processing and supply chain options will be developed and released through commercial or open-access channels as appropriate.
- The PI and members of the programme team will undertake "road-trips" (including delivering plenary talks, leading workshops and speaking at industry events) to share key outputs of the Programme and to stimulate UK leadership in innovation and the adoption of Research Efficiency in practice.
- The Programme team will deliver professionally written and designed quarterly strategic reports on current priority topics identified by consortium partners, for their use in addressing immediate strategic decisions and to gain feedback on priorities for research development
- Consortium subscriptions will be used entirely to fund project PhD students to apply methods developed in the research to specific contexts, to validate the methods and drive new developments.
- An annual one-day UK Forum on Resource Efficiency will be organised to engage the full stakeholder community in Resource Efficiency across the UK in order to foster new connections, share emerging research ideas, and create new connections.
- A highly qualified "Policy Champion" employed by the Programme will design and lead delivery of focused policy workshops based on Programme outputs to carefully targeted Resource-related audiences across Whitehall and Westminster.
- Publications designed for industrial audiences, deriving from the Programme's academic output, will be disseminated through networks activated by consortium partners to influence future research and development agendas.
- Software implementing a Physical Resources Observatory, the core activity of Challenge 2, will be developed and released as open-access code and data to allow a broad community of resource analysts to experience, apply and enhance the outputs of the Programme directly.
- Software to support enumeration of the performance of existing design, processing and supply chain options will be developed and released through commercial or open-access channels as appropriate.
- The PI and members of the programme team will undertake "road-trips" (including delivering plenary talks, leading workshops and speaking at industry events) to share key outputs of the Programme and to stimulate UK leadership in innovation and the adoption of Research Efficiency in practice.
Organisations
- University of Cambridge, United Kingdom (Lead Research Organisation)
- ESRC, United Kingdom (Co-funder)
- RWTH Aachen University, Germany (Collaboration)
- Samsung (Collaboration)
- University of Strathclyde, United Kingdom (Collaboration)
- Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg (Collaboration)
- Siemens AG, Germany (Collaboration)
- Atkins Global (Project Partner)
- Jaguar Cars Ltd, United Kingdom (Project Partner)
- Liberty House Group (Project Partner)
- Arup Group Ltd, United Kingdom (Project Partner)
- Laing O'Rourke plc, United Kingdom (Project Partner)
- Anglo American plc, United Kingdom (Project Partner)
- High Value Manufacturing (HVM) Catapult (Project Partner)
- Tata Steel UK, United Kingdom (Project Partner)
- Primetals Technologies (Project Partner)
- Materials Processing Institute (MPI) (Project Partner)
Publications

Allwood J
(2019)
Folding-shearing: Shrinking and stretching sheet metal with no thickness change
in CIRP Annals

Cleaver C
(2019)
Curvature development in ring rolling
in Journal of Materials Processing Technology

Flint IP
(2020)
Material Flow Analysis with Multiple Material Characteristics to Assess the Potential for Flat Steel Prompt Scrap Prevention and Diversion without Remelting.
in Environmental science & technology

Hawkins W
(2020)
A design methodology to reduce the embodied carbon of concrete buildings using thin-shell floors
in Engineering Structures

Horton P
(2020)
An experimental analysis of the relationship between the corner, die and punch radii in forming isolated flanged shrink corners from Al 5251
in Journal of Materials Processing Technology

Lyu F
(2019)
An investigation of creep age forming of AA7B04 stiffened plates: Experiment and FE modelling
in Journal of Manufacturing Processes

Russo I
(2020)
The influence of part asymmetry on the achievable forming height in multi-pass spinning
in Journal of Materials Processing Technology

Walega P
(2020)
Subject-oriented spatial logic
in Information and Computation

Zheng K
(2019)
An experimental investigation on the deformation and post-formed strength of heat-treatable aluminium alloys using different elevated temperature forming processes
in Journal of Materials Processing Technology
Description | This award began in April 2019, and in June 2019 outgoing Prime Minister Theresa May initiated a change in the Climate Change Act, in response to social protests, mandating that the UK should cut its emissions by 100% by 2050. This is scientifically and socially absolutely right, and passed unanimously through both Houses of Parliament - but possibly without anyone really understanding its consequences. As a result, at a first technical retreat of the UK FIRES academic team, we decided to develop a major public-facing report at the end of November 2019 exploring the reality of this zero emissions target. The report "Absolute Zero" has had widespread impact, in policy and the media and on 6th February 2020 was the subject of a full debate in the House of Lords. The report explored the realities of delivering zero emissions largely with today's technologies, as a pragmatic to over-optimism about new technologies which currently dominates discussion of climate policy. It has led to extensive media and public discussion, both positive and negative, and an enormous number of speaker invitations which Professor Allwood and other members of the team are trying to fulfil. The report was discussed by the CEOs and CTOs of the UK's Catapult network, who have asked UK FIRES to follow-up the main report with sectorally focused reports on the innovation opportunity for UK businesses revealed by the strict target. These reports will be the focus of our first Annual Forum on 30th March 2020 and we aim to release them in summer 2020. |
Exploitation Route | Absolute Zero is of fundamental importance to the UK's approach to designing its plans for climate mitigation, and as the promises of breakthrough technologies fail to deliver, is likely to be seen as a pioneering manual for pragmatic change. We anticipate issuing an expanded update of the report later in 2020, ahead of COP26 in Glasgow, and hope that it will influence policy planning at both industrial and governmental levels, as well as informing an increasing concerned and engaged public. The report has also given a sharp focus to our research agenda: relative reductions in emissions are no longer relevant when within thirty years we are obliged to be operating with zero emissions. This is strongly directing the choices we make about our research priorities. |
Sectors | Construction,Energy,Environment,Government, Democracy and Justice,Manufacturing, including Industrial Biotechology,Security and Diplomacy,Transport |
URL | https://ukfires.org |
Description | Because UK FIRES aims at delivering an industrial strategy compatible with the UK's recently revised Climate Change Act, it is virtually impossible to separate its academic and non-academic impacts - so pease see the summary of findings which address this question as much as the academic one. |
First Year Of Impact | 2020 |
Sector | Construction,Energy,Government, Democracy and Justice,Manufacturing, including Industrial Biotechology |
Impact Types | Societal |
Description | DEFRA Circular Economy working group |
Geographic Reach | National |
Policy Influence Type | Membership of a guideline committee |
Description | EPSRC DTA |
Amount | £69,342 (GBP) |
Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
Sector | Public |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 10/2020 |
End | 09/2023 |
Description | Impact Acceleration Account: data visualisation based on Absolute Zero report |
Amount | £1,000 (GBP) |
Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
Sector | Public |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 01/2020 |
End | 12/2020 |
Description | OASIS: Ontology Reasoning over Frequently-changing and Streaming Data |
Amount | £961,132 (GBP) |
Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
Sector | Public |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 10/2019 |
End | 10/2022 |
Title | Model for plastic collapse in ring rolling |
Description | An analytical model to predict the constraining roll force when plastic collapse occurs in constrained ring rolling |
Type Of Material | Computer model/algorithm |
Year Produced | 2020 |
Provided To Others? | No |
Impact | N/A |
Title | Model for plastic collapse in spinning |
Description | An analytical model to predict the maximum allowable force before wrinkling occurs in metal spinning |
Type Of Material | Computer model/algorithm |
Year Produced | 2020 |
Provided To Others? | Yes |
Impact | N/A |
Description | Limits to shaping without ring growth |
Organisation | RWTH Aachen University |
Country | Germany |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | I initiated the collaboration, and proposed the topic / approach that we would investigate. Experiments were carried out on the Uni. of Cambridge machine |
Collaborator Contribution | Advanced Forming Research Centre carried out damage investigations using ultrasonic testing, including sample preparation. Researcher at IBF is carrying out thermally coupled finite element modelling of the process |
Impact | Journal article is to be submitted |
Start Year | 2018 |
Description | Limits to shaping without ring growth |
Organisation | University of Strathclyde |
Department | Advanced Forming Research Centre |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | I initiated the collaboration, and proposed the topic / approach that we would investigate. Experiments were carried out on the Uni. of Cambridge machine |
Collaborator Contribution | Advanced Forming Research Centre carried out damage investigations using ultrasonic testing, including sample preparation. Researcher at IBF is carrying out thermally coupled finite element modelling of the process |
Impact | Journal article is to be submitted |
Start Year | 2018 |
Description | Samsung Research UK (SRUK) |
Organisation | Samsung |
Country | Korea, Republic of |
Sector | Private |
PI Contribution | Samsung Research UK (SRUK) - funding for a PDRA and one PhD student |
Collaborator Contribution | Samsung Research UK (SRUK) - funding for a PDRA and one PhD student |
Impact | no outputs yet |
Start Year | 2019 |
Description | Siemens PhD studentship funding |
Organisation | Siemens AG |
Country | Germany |
Sector | Private |
PI Contribution | PhD Studentship funding |
Collaborator Contribution | PhD Studentship funding |
Impact | no outputs yet |
Start Year | 2019 |
Description | Stefan Pauliuk |
Organisation | Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg |
Country | Germany |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | Working to integrate tools for data visualisation and open data sharing being developed at University of Freiburg and University of Bath |
Collaborator Contribution | Working to integrate tools for data visualisation and open data sharing being developed at University of Freiburg and University of Bath |
Impact | In progress |
Start Year | 2019 |
Title | working of sheet metal |
Description | Process for forming sheet metal components with reduced scrap |
IP Reference | GB1814069.9 |
Protection | Patent application published |
Year Protection Granted | |
Licensed | No |
Impact | N/A |
Title | Machine for Folding shearing |
Description | A machine has been designed and built to enable the experimental investigation of a novel sheet metal forming process |
Type Of Technology | New/Improved Technique/Technology |
Year Produced | 2020 |
Impact | N/A |
Description | Attended CIRP Winter meeting in Paris |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Attended the CIRP Winter meeting in Paris. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
Description | Contributed to CSaP round table discussion on zero emissions. |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Round table discussions with CSaP on zero emissions. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
Description | Debate in the House of Lords |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | Our report "Absolute Zero" was presented by Lord Browne of Ladyton in the House of Lords on the 6th February 2020. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
URL | https://hansard.parliament.uk/lords/2020-02-06/debates/22BE288A-6BCF-4D5A-BE0E-F3EFAB702D4A/ClimateC... |
Description | EPSRC Manufacturing the Future Critical Mass meeting 19 Nov 2019 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | EPSRC Manufacturing the Future Critical Mass meeting 19 Nov 2019 |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
Description | Ely Cathedral Business Group's Climate Change event |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Local |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | presentation given at Ely Cathedral Business Group's Climate Change event |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
Description | Energy Systems Catapult |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Workshop on industrial decarbonisation Advice given was used to produce the latest version of the energy systems model from the Energy Systems Catapult advice was given on strategies of industrial decarbonisation Keynote/Invited Speaker to share information |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
Description | Gave presentation to the Government Council of Science & Technology |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | Was invited to give a presentation to the Government Council on Science & Technology on Absolute Zero. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
Description | Gave talk at Kelham Island |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Gave talk at Kelham Island. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
Description | Gave talk at UKRI Ciruclar Economy event |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | Gave talk at the UKRI Circular Economy event |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
Description | Give talk to Peter Schmitz' group at Anglo American plc re absolute zero |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | Gave talk to Anglo American re Absolute Zero report. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
Description | ICE Climate Emergency Conference (Coventry) |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Local |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Talk given to stimulate thinking. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
Description | ISIE2020 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Conference of the International Society for Industrial Ecology Paper Presentation We presented our approach on scenario analysis of the English building stock, which was then used by peers in their own research work |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
URL | http://isie2019.env.tsinghua.edu.cn |
Description | Interview with Barbara Lewis, Reuters on steel. |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Interview with Barbara Lewis, Reuters, re steel |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
Description | Interview with Francesca Washtell, Daily Mail on Steel Arising & Absolute Zero |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Interview with Francesca Washtell, Daily Mail on Steel Arising & Absolute Zero |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
Description | JBM Board Workshop |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Local |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Talk given to assist in making decisions. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
Description | John Ray Society tallk: Absolute Zero: meeting the UK's legal commitment to zero emissions in 30 years time. |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Local |
Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
Results and Impact | Gave talk to the St Catharine's College John Ray Society on "Absolute Zero: meeting the UK's legal commitment to zero emissions in 30 years time." |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
Description | Launch of Absolute Zero report at the Royal Geographical Society's COP |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Launch of Absolute Zero report at the Royal Geographical Society's COP |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
Description | Launch of structuralengineersdeclare.com (London) |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Talk given to stimulate thinking. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
Description | Living Lab consortium of industry partners meeting |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | 1st meeting of the Living Lab industry consortium members for UK FIRES. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
Description | Living Lab meeting |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | Living Lab meeting of the UK FIRES industry consortium |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
Description | Living Lab meeting (conf call) for the UK FIRES Industry consortium |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | discussion of next steps, and mapping of sector reports |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
Description | Living Lab meeting of the UK FIRES Industry Consortium |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | Living Lab meeting of the UK FIRES industry consortium. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
Description | Meeting of the Energy Research Partnership |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Meeting of the ERP for energy planning plenary event |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
Description | Meeting with Ben Nash @DEFRA re Remanufacturing |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | Briefing/presentation to Ben Nash re Remanufacturing of steel in the UK. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
Description | Meeting with Gates Ventures |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | Exploratory meeting with Gates Ventures for future funding to enable collaboration. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
Description | Meeting with Jo Wall, Strategic Director (Climate response), Local Partnerships |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Meeting to explore the following: Ways to engage with local government, particularly because of the planning process: the average new-build commercial building in the UK is being overbuilt by a factor of up to two and demolished and replaced in about 50 years. Given the enormous impact of steel and cement in driving emissions, there is a really important opportunity for local governments to act differently - but we don't know how to communicate with them. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
Description | Meeting with Karsten Neuhoff, DIW Berlin |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Progress meeting and possible future collaboration discussion. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
Description | Meeting with Markus Bambach @Cottbus |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Progress meeting and discussion of possible collaboration. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
Description | Meeting with Mike Cook at Buro Happold, London |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Gave an update to Mike Cook @ Buro Happold re Absolute Zero |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
Description | Meeting with Primetals |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | Exploratory meeting with Primetals on potential further funding for project related to powder metal. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
Description | National Engineering Policy Centre event |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Invited to speak at the National Engineering policy centre event, held at the RA Eng in London |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
Description | Participation at the Jon Bolton Bessmer Lecture with Liberty Steel |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | High-level networking event. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
Description | Peter Schmitz, Anglo-American Plc |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | Gave presentation to audience at Anglo American |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
Description | Presentation at Buro Happold (Bath) |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Local |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | To stimulate thinking |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
Description | Presentation at Buro Happold (London) |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Local |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | to stimulate thinking |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
Description | Presentation at Integral Engineering (Bath) |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Local |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | to stimulate thinking |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
Description | Presentation at Liverpool University |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Local |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Talk given to stimulate thinking. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
Description | Presentation at Skanska (London) |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Local |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Talk given to stimulate thinking |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
Description | Presentation at Skanska (London) |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Local |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Talk given to stimulate thinking |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
Description | Presentation at the Welsh Senate (Cardiff Senedd) on our Steel Arising report |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | Presentation to members of the Welsh Senate of our Steel Arising report and project related work. Further individual meetings with Welsh MPs. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
Description | Presentation of Absoulte Zero to Energy Research Partnership plenary |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Presentation of Absoulte Zero to Energy Research Partnership plenary |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
Description | Presented Absolute Zero and discussion with Tracey Hanlon, EPSRC |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | Absolute Zero presentation and meeting with Tracey Hanlon |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
Description | Progress meeting with Siemens in Berlin |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | As part of a general progress meeting for one of our PhD students, the Absolute Zero report was presented and discussed. Further possibilities for future collaboration was also discussed. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
Description | Rob Wakely re Sue Hayman, Shadow Environment Secretary |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | Briefed Rob Wakely re Absolute Zero to disseminate to Sue Hayman, Labour Environment Secretary. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
Description | Seminar at University of Bath, Public seminar within the Architecture and Civil Engineering Department, research presentation. |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Local |
Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
Results and Impact | Presentation given to share information. Questions and discussion, with follow-up conversations and email correspondance |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
Description | Speak at the London Climate Change Festival |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Speaking at the London Climate Change festival on three occasions. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
URL | https://londonclimatechangefestival.com/ |
Description | Submitted a response to BEIS on hydrogen |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | REsponse to BEIS submitted on hydrogen. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
Description | Workshop at Heyne Tillet Steel (London) |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Local |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | New interest in attending upcoming UK FIRES Strategy Workshop |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
Description | meeting with Dell, Rebecca Walsh |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | Networking meeting with Dell, Rebecca Walsh |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
Description | presenting Steel Arising to the Welsh Cross Party Group for Steel |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | presenting Steel Arising to the Welsh Cross Party Group for Steel |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |