Articles & Blogs

Researcher Luis Torres-Retamal is exploring how procurement can be used as a lever for public organisations to adopt sustainable principles in construction and transport, and how a shift in company behaviours may help develop the circular economy.

Tier ones and innovators gather to focus on National Highways’ innovation priorities across decarbonisation and customers’ experience.

Ensuring safe electric charging and hydrogen refuelling could represent barriers to the transition of road freight towards net zero. Essential competencies are needed to develop best practices.

Katherine Sugar champions efforts to spend more on energy infrastructure projects that promise a fairer transition to net zero in cities.

Connected Places Catapult’s Affiliate explains why the automotive sector needs to share learnings and opportunities with colleagues in rail, maritime and aviation to help with the transition towards net zero and sustainable transport.

Serial inventor Kristen Tapping is developing an air filtration device for heavy vehicles to help clean polluted air on city streets, and is supported by Connected Places Catapult in her quest to bring a useful product to market.

Italian structural engineer Enrico Tubaldi’s experience of a strong earthquake in his hometown as a student led him to set about improving the resilience of structures to tremors. Now based in the UK, he’s turned his attention to protecting historic bridges from the effects of flooding.

Promising start-up companies looking to secure investment for their innovations gathered at the Shard in London last February to pitch their business propositions. One year on, we speak to event participant Gregor Hoefter of energy saving platform GridDuck about his firm’s journey.