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AirLabs
With 92% of the world’s population exposed to unsafe levels of air pollution (WHO), we’ve made it our mission to deliver clean air where it is needed most. We clean the polluted air in Cities, Buildings and Transport, using advanced airflow engineering and proprietary filtration technologies. Our revolutionary technology removes harmful gases and particulates to make it safe for healthy breathing.
Alphasense
Alphasense supplies high-quality gas and particulate sensors to many of the world’s leading industrial OEMs. With over 25 years’ experience in the design and manufacture of high-accuracy sensors, the Alphasense brand is synonymous with quality and innovation, particularly in the fields of gas detection, industrial gas analysis and environmental monitoring.
Commonplace
Great places are created by understanding and responding to the needs of the community. Commonplace is the UK and Ireland’s most advanced solution for community engagement and co-design. We have created an inclusive and flexible platform designed to gather geolocated localised sentiment data around places and spaces. Commonplace not only enables broader community conversations – it turns those conversations into a rich, data-led understanding.
Connected Places Catapult
Connected Places Catapult is the UK’s innovation accelerator for cities, transport, and places.
Newcastle Helix
Newcastle Helix exists to help us all live better lives. Easier, healthier, smarter and longer. Our focus is on data science, urban science and life science. Together, we’re transforming the quality of life for families, communities and cities around the world.
Project Centre, part of Marston Holdings
Project Centre, part of Marston Holdings, is a multidisciplinary infrastructure and place consultancy shaping sustainable spaces across the UK. They work with local authorities and private developers to deliver civil infrastructure, support sustainable communities, and create vibrant, well-designed places. Project Centre's expertise spans highways and infrastructure design, kerbside and parking management, sustainable transport, and award-winning public realm projects including flood and water management, lighting and community engagement.
Scotscape
Cities occupy only 3% of our landmass but over 56% (and rising) of our population live here. Scotscape are an innovation led company that combine nature and technology to encourage biodiversity back into the built environment. Their product eco-system includes patented Living Walls and Living Pillars systems, Micro-Forests, LivingArt, and industry leading landscape maintenance – positioning Scotscape at the forefront of urban greening, to breathe life into cities around the world.
Signify
Signify is the world leader in lighting for professionals, consumers and lighting for the Internet of Things. Our energy efficient lighting products, systems and services enable our customers to enjoy a superior quality of light, and make people’s lives safer and more comfortable, businesses more productive and cities more liveable.
Tvilight Smart City Lighting
TVILIGHT is a European market leader in smart city lighting control solutions, specialising in sensors, connected lighting controls, and management software. Their open platform, powered by Open API, enables Smart City and IoT integration. Over 1000 cities across 35+ countries benefit from TVILIGHT solutions, including major municipalities across the Netherlands and Germany, and growing deployments in Luxembourg, Hungary, Greece, the UK, Morocco, the Middle East, India, Korea, Australia, and New Zealand.
Broadway Malyan
Broadway Malyan is a global architecture, urbanism and design practice dedicated to creating cities, buildings and places that will provide a lasting legacy. Through a shared design ethos, we work together to create places with a strong sense of identity where people and communities want to live, learn, shop, work and relax. Our collaborative approach to integrated sustainable design has enabled us to deliver award-winning projects at all scales across the world. Every project, from a strategic city plan to the craftmanship of a balustrade, reflects our passion for quality design and place-making.
Cambridge Centre for Housing and Planning Research (CCHPR)
CCHPR’s team of researchers are dedicated to carrying out innovative research that is relevant for policy and practice, and to providing an evidence base for making positive change with a view to reducing inequality, and improving housing supply and affordability.
LSE Cities
LSE Cities is an award winning international centre at the London School of Economics and Political Science that carries out research, graduate and executive education and outreach activities in London and abroad. It studies how people and cities interact in a rapidly urbanising world, focusing on how the physical form and design of cities impacts on society, culture and the environment.
VU.CITY
VU.CITY is a game-changing, digital twin software which addresses the fundamental questions: if we build here; what will it look like; who will it affect; and how will it affect them? Combining the power of data with the largest, most accurate 3D digital city models, VU.CITY helps us to understand the implications of change in the built environment. VU.CITY covers the whole of London and 25 major UK and international cities.
Brunel University London
Founded in 1966, Brunel is a leading technology university renowned for its education and research and its spirit of innovation and entrepreneurship.
Centre for London
Centre for London is the capital’s dedicated think tank. Our mission is to develop new solutions to London’s critical challenges and advocate for a fair and prosperous global city.
SYSTRA
SYSTRA is one of the world’s leading engineering and consulting groups, specialising in infrastructure and mobility solutions. In the UK & Ireland, SYSTRA has been creating, improving and modernising infrastructure for more than 50 years across the transport, energy, environmental and built-environment sectors. Their work creates inspirational places and systems that connect people seamlessly, enhance well-being, stimulate economies, and provide a sustainable legacy for future generations.
The Bartlett
The Bartlett is UCL's Faculty of the Built Environment. We explore human spaces, the physical structures like homes, office blocks and cities, as well as the invisible systems that govern them: our laws and political systems, our family groupings and social norms.
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