News from e-Innovation tenants, BuildFifty5.

News from e-Innovation tenants, BuildFifty5.

Director Kieran Danby standing outside one of Buildfifty5 Living’s schemesWhilst the pandemic closed much of the UK economy, for this Shropshire-based business, it presented an opportunity to develop the strategy for its new division and the chance to be involved in the redevelopment of brown field sites that will improve housing and care provision of its home county.

Read more on this article, courtesy of the Shropshire Star newspaper Firm to focus on the redevelopment of Shropshire | Shropshire Star

 

Director of e-IC company applies management skills for United Nations

Dr Gavin Jordan, the Director of Interface-NRM Ltd, a company specialising in quality and environmental management certification, is based at the E-Innovation centre on the Telford campus.

He has taken a secondment from Interface for 6 months, working for the United Nations as their Principal Programme Management Officer for Sustainable Supply Chain Management, based at the United Nations Global Service Centre in Italy.
The role involves developing an approach and methodology to assess, improve and add value to global peace keeping operations, through improvements to supply chains and associated data.

Gavin has said that this is a great opportunity to apply a management systems and data led approach to one of the most demanding supply chain situations globally! The work he is conducting focuses on Mali, the Democratic Republic of Congo, and South Sudan.

NEW Alert Level System In Place

NEW Alert Level System In Place

As part of the continuous review cycle we have decided to adopt a new approach to Covid19 and we will be implementing this with effect from Monday 18th October 2021. From this date we will operate on two alert levels: Medium and High, to ensure that processes are simple and easy to follow. These are briefly described below and comparisons can be seen in the table. Full details of the approach / levels can be found in the guidance HERE. Please ensure you circulate this to your staff on site so they are aware of the impact when the alert level changes.

A warm welcome to Spotless AI Limited

A warm welcome to Spotless AI Limited, manufacturers of innovative consumer electronics who are developing a prototype autonomous cleaning robot

The company has recently relocated to the E-Innovation Centre at the University of Wolverhampton’s Priorslee Innovation Campus in Telford to develop and commercialise their product.

Experts from the SOLVD team at the University of Wolverhampton supports Telford & Wrekin and Shropshire small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) in the adoption of digital technologies to improve productivity and profit has collaborated with Spotless AI to further develop the product towards commercialisation

Through an initial 12 hours of support, SOLVD experts in AI, 5G wireless communication, Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) and cyber security have helped the company review their technology roadmap and strategy development and provided advice on control mechanisms and connectivity

You can find out more about the SOLVD team and how they could help your business at https://www.wlv.ac.uk/business-services/funding-and-support/solvd/

The case study for Spotless AI Limited can be read here