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£24 million investment will make Glasgow a city of the future
Glasgow was given a boost in January after it was chosen to receive £24 million of government investment to demonstrate how a city of the future will work. Glasgow beat off competition from 30 other UK cities to host the Technology Strategy Board’s ‘Future Cities Demonstrator’.
The city will demonstrate how providing new integrated services across health, transport, energy and public safety can improve the local economy and increase the quality of life of Glasgow’s citizens, and will allow UK businesses to test new solutions that can be exported around the globe.
High flyer
An engineer who devised one of the United Kingdom’s first large scale computer-aided design systems has been made an honorary fellow of Kingston University in south west London.
David Lindsley’s high-flying career began after he studied electrical engineering at Kingston Technical College – which became part of Kingston University in 1992. One of his assignments, at a local power station, so inspired him that it led to a lifelong involvement with large industrial plants, ships and water treatment works.
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The Glasgow Future Cities Demonstrator aims to address some of the city’s most pressing energy and health needs. For example, developing systems to help tackle fuel poverty and to look at long-standing health issues such as low life expectancy.
The demonstrator will also show how innovative use of technology can improve the Council’s service provision, while additional potential benefits include improved crime prevention, a reduction in anti-social behaviour and improvements in travel infrastructure.
The large-scale demonstrator will be made
Now retired, Mr Lindsley, who taught at the university in the 1980s, continues to work with Kingston’s Faculty of science, engineering and computing, helping to promote engineering as an exciting and fulfilling career.
Mr Lindsley spent most of his working life with a subsidiary of industry giant Babcock, Bailey Meters and Controls, . He became director of engineering and introduced a major breakthrough in 1980 when he helped to implement one of the first large scale computer-aided design systems. This helped the company to win valuable export orders because it could offer a rapid and efficient engineering design process.
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up of a series of projects that will improve transport and mobility across the city. It will develop programmes to promote healthy living, deliver advanced street lighting to address community safety and perception of crime, and enhance building energy efficiency to provide affordable warmth. Value will be created by capturing and opening up data, improving the city’s real-time operations with a city dashboard and a management system that views the city as an integrated whole, and a ‘MyGlasgow’ public window on the city to deliver multiple benefits for the people of Glasgow.
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