The Bath Business Improvement District (BID) has launched a scheme to celebrate the city’s wildlife by illustrating it on the recently restored public benches near the Abbey. The Biodiversity Bench Project includes 21 images of creatures ranging from butterflies and frogs to birds painted onto the seats in Kingston Parade, the square between Abbey...
A state-of-the-art waste recycling centre has been named as one of the most impressive recent building projects in the South West in a prestigious building awards scheme. Bath & North East Council’s £41.8m Keynsham recycling hub, which was officially opened in February, is among the regional winners in the RICS (Royal Institution of chartered...
A spin-out company from the University of Bath is looking to plug into a new form of sustainable power by creating a battery that recharges itself when placed in soil. Start-up Bactery has developed bacteria-powered batteries – or ‘Bacteries’ – which harvest green energy by taking advantage of natural processes that occur in soil-based microorganisms. As...
Low-cost airline easyJet has launched its largest-ever flight schedule from Bristol Airport after adding another aircraft to its fleet based there. The airline, already the largest operator from Bristol, now has 18 aircraft based permanently at the airport serving 72 routes in 26 countries. Later this month easyJet will launch flights for the first time...
A collaboration to position the West of England as the UK’s leading region for green and ethical-led finance activities has been launched. FinTech West, the organisation representing the burgeoning sector in the region, has teamed up with UWE Bristol’s Sustainable Economies Research Group (SERG) to get the initiative underway. It aims to bring together the...
An exhibition that aims to inspire Bath’s future as a sustainable and climate-resilient city is to be staged at the recently reopened Museum of Bath Architecture. Called ‘Biophilic Bath – The Green City You See’, the exhibition will feature designs by innovative architects, engineers and designers, which show future ‘biophilic’ visions of the city. ...
With the general election now taking place on 4 July, Business West – the region’s largest business organisation – has issued a 10-point plan for the long-term prosperity of the West of England. Through its Quarterly Economic Survey, which acts as a barometer of business sentiment across the region, coupled with its ongoing conversations...
Chemical engineers at the University of Bath have modelled a new way of recycling polystyrene that could become the first viable way of making the hard-to-recycle packaging material reusable. The team, who are working with Worcester Polytechnic Institute in Massachusetts, US, say their technique could be the first to make recycling polystyrene both economically...
Bath-based building design experts, led by architectural practices Mark Wray Architects and Grant Associates, have teamed up to design an innovative new visitor shelter for a living memorial site dedicated to the fallen of the First World War. Langley Vale Wood in Epsom, Surrey, is the largest of The Woodland Trust’s four First World War...
Interaction, the Bath-based workplace design and build company, has won a prestigious award for its innovative work creating a state-of-the-art new office for a law firm in Bristol. Interaction topped the Fit Out of the Year category of the British Council for Offices’ (BCO) South of England and South Wales Awards, which are widely...
