A director of Bath-headquartered international landscape architecture practice Grant Associates been selected to sit on the technical panel for a major new award scheme championing the world’s greenest cities. Peter Chmiel, pictured, is among 23 multi-disciplinary experts from across the globe to be chosen to assess and score the entries received for the inaugural...
The University of Bath is to become a national centre of excellence for research into hydrogen and alternative low carbon fuels. The university, already one of the UK’s leading research institutions across a wide range of disciplines, this month began hosting an important new research project into how the UK could increase its use...
Business leaders, academics and students will come together next week at a special event staged by the University of Bath to showcase its enterprise strategy and boost collaboration with the corporate world. The first Enterprise Day on Wednesday, 27 April, will include panel discussions on how business can create green and resilient futures, how...
Specialist transport engineering firm SEA has been awarded a major contract for its traffic safety and enforcement system by Bristol City Council as it prepares to launch its Clean Air Zone in September. SEA, which has its headquarters at Beckington, near Frome, is to install 49 of its ROADflow Fusion cameras at key locations...
A scheme set up to donate unwanted and refurbished laptops to schools, charities and individuals who do not have access to technology has been awarded £135,000 to help take it to the next stage of development. The money from The National Lottery Community Fund will be used by Wiltshire Digital Drive to recruit a...
Second Mountain Comms, the Bath-based specialist PR consultancy that works with purpose-driven companies and charities, is in the running for second major award. Having been named last month as a finalist in the UK public relations industry’s most prestigious award scheme, Second Mountain Comms has now been shortlisted for a national social enterprise award. ...
A successful Skills Bootcamp programme for the unemployed and those seeking to change their career is to be extended following the allocation of £3.3m in new government funding. The money, which will enable a further 1,200 learners to take part in the scheme across the West of England, was secured by Metro Mayor Dan...
The founder of a Bath-based specialist communications consultancy launched during the first Covid lockdown has been named as a finalist in the UK public relations industry’s most prestigious award scheme. Ben Veal, pictured, opened Second Mountain Communications for business in summer 2000 with a mission to help good people to do good by sharing their values and...
Aequus, Bath & North East Somerset Council’s housing company, has returned a total of £7.9m to the council in capital receipts and revenue since its launch five years, new figures show. It has also delivered more than 140 new homes over that period, including 95 apartments at Riverside View in Keynsham, pictured below –...
A novel feature has been added to the innovative project masterminded by Bath landscape architecture practice Grant Associates that will turn the Tower of London’s moat into a vibrant sea of flowers this summer – a giant slide. Visitors will be able to make a dramatic entrance to the Superbloom attraction via the 21ft...
