Northstone (Ni) Limited

To develop a novel lightweight roof tile product by increasing the material efficiency and realising production efficiency savings. The work will develop new Eco series tiles, establish its carbon and performance credentials in line with Northstone's sustainability strategy.

There is an urgent need for high-value recycling routes for Glass Reinforced Polymer composites (GRP). At present almost all of the ~80 kt \[1\] of thermoset GRP scrap generated in UK and around 530 kt \[2\] in Europe goes to landfill or energy from waste annually. GRP scrap will increase with End-of-Life (EoL) wind turbine blades likely to reach over 20,...

The unfortunate Grenfell fire disaster, where 72 lives were lost, has gone down as one of the UK's worst disaster of modern time. As a way of preventing future occurrence of such tragedy, one of the key recommendations of government's commissioned report (Hackett,2018) suggests the need for intelligent systems of regulation and enforcement to facilitate c...

To create an engineering knowledge base for an innovative range of modular lightweight glass reinforced plastic sealed chambers to compete against heavy concrete equivalent sealed chambers