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This is Milk hosts its inaugural Meet Up event
Douglas Millican, Chief Executive, Scottish Water with Lewis Bennett, in front of the
two sections of the Tunnel Boring Machine which arrived in Glasgow recently
TBM sections arrive T
he front sections of a giant, state-of-the-art Tunnel Boring Machine (TBM) have arrived in
Glasgow ahead of the construction phase of Scotish Water’s £100million project to build the biggest waste water tunnel in Scotland. Te 360 tonnes front sections
of the TBM, built in Germany, were transported by sea to Rosyth and were brought by lorries under police escort along
Recognition
SECC named best large event space
The Scottish Exhibition and Conference Centre (SECC) has been recognised by Exhibition News magazine for its high-quality events space, being named ‘Best Venue over 8,000 sqm’ at a major industry ceremony held in London. The Glasgow-based venue beat
off stiff competition from other UK finalists including ExCeL London, the NEC in Birmingham and Olympia London. The Exhibition News award win
comes shortly after the SECC became
the first venue in the world to be officially accredited under the World Obesity Federation’s Healthy Venue Awards programme for its focus in delivering healthier options for delegates. Initiatives implemented
The Scottish Exhibition and
Conference Centre (SECC) has been named ‘Best Venue over 8,000 sqm’
have included creating a healthy venue task force, partnering with Nextbike to provide free bikes to conference delegates and offering low fat, low sugar and low alcohol menu options across the venue.
the M8 in central Glasgow to the project site at Craigton in the south west of the city. Te TBM will start the
construction of the Shieldhall Tunnel in the summer and will weigh 1000 tonnes and be 180 metres long. Te tunnel will follow a 3.1 mile-long route between Craigton and Queen’s Park. It is a key part of Scotish Water’s £250m, five-year programme of work, launched in 2013, to improve river water
State-of-the-art machine arrives for Scotland’s biggest waste water tunnel
quality and the natural environment and tackle flooding – the biggest investment in the Greater Glasgow area’s waste water infrastructure in more than a century. Following the arrival of the
front sections of the TBM, Craigton Primary schoolboy Lewis Bennet, who named the TBM – Daisy the Driller – in a competition, visited the project site and met Scotish Water Chief Executive Douglas Millican.
This is Milk’s inaugural event
This is Milk recently hosted the inaugural Milk Bar Meet Up event, bringing together bright, forward thinking minds in the Scottish business scene to discuss the topic of Methods of Innovation. The event was hosted
at the Orkney Enterprise Centre and included speakers from Lloyd’s Banking Group, Xdesign and Add Jam, who shared their experiences and insights about how to bring about innovation through methods such as Scrum and user-centred design. The event was the
first face-to-face meet up of the Milk Bar virtual community, which aims to connect like-minded people in the Scottish business scene to collaborate on business improvement and discuss future trends. Future Meet Up events will focus on a range of different topics to encourage fresh thinking and offer up new networking and collaboration opportunities.
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