FEATURE TRAINING
Taylor Centre opens at Royal Academy of Engineering
T
he Royal Academy of Engineering has opened the Taylor Centre, a new
space that will underpin the growth of an increasingly vibrant and influential entrepreneurial community, created by the Academy’s Enterprise Hub. It will help transform the UK’s best and brightest engineering technology entrepreneurs into the business leaders of tomorrow by providing a brand new place to work, network and develop their skills. Flexible meeting and workspaces such as the Taylor Centre are proving crucial to the growth of technology companies. Such open and varied settings stimulate collaborative discussions and foster serendipitous encounters that can lead to business relationships. With powerful connectivity and state-of-the-art AV across eight versatile rooms, and ‘touch down’ work spaces, the Taylor Centre will provide a professional space for entrepreneurs to develop their ideas, meet investors and potential customers, and take their work to the next stage. The Academy’s Enterprise Hub provides
funding, mentoring and PR support to entrepreneurs turning their engineering innovations into viable businesses. The Taylor Centre is the next piece of this package, bringing excellence, creativity and innovation together under one roof. The Enterprise Hub offers one-on-one mentoring with Academy fellows, who have a wealth of engineering and business experience. Since its inception in 2013, the Hub has helped 61 members get their businesses off the ground, generating 150 jobs in the process, and its members have raised over £30m in follow-on funding and investment for their technologies. Building the Taylor Centre is part of the
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Royal Academy of Engineering’s wider ambition to create a national centre of excellence for engineering. Ana Avaliani, head of enterprise, Royal Academy of Engineering, says: “The UK is one of the best countries in the world at innovative research and technological development. Through the Taylor Centre and our wider community, we are helping to turn such innovation into viable engineering technology businesses, supporting UK entrepreneurship in uncertain times. As a place for networking and sharing ideas with fellow innovators and the UK’s leading engineers, the new space will mark a step-change in the support we are able to offer, in the results our members will achieve, and therefore the country’s capacity for engineering innovation. This is the start of something really special.” Jack Hooper, Hub member and co- founder of doppel, a company that is showcasing their newly launched smart wearable at the Taylor Centre opening, adds: “The mentoring we have been able
to access because of the Enterprise Hub has been an enormous support to us, helping us to make the decisions and connections so important to getting our technology to market. The opening of the Taylor Centre will add another level to the Hub’s support, giving us and many other entrepreneurs access to incredible expertise and facilities that will help us grow our businesses.” The Taylor Centre was made possible by a generous donation from distinguished inventor and entrepreneur Dr John C. Taylor OBE FREng, the support of the late Geoffrey Argent FREng and the Wolfson Foundation, as well as and the kind donation of equipment from Toshiba UK. Thanks to these supporters and their invaluable contribution, the Royal Academy of Engineering has created a home for the best of engineering entrepreneurship. The Taylor Centre was opened on 10 February.
Royal Academy of Engineering T: 0207 766 0625
www.raeng.org.uk
BEST PRACTICE PROGRAMME AND VIDEOS
PROMOTING ELECTRICAL SAFETY Hylec-APL has launched a programme to encourage and support electrical wiring safety best practice in the industry. The Hylec HALO programme (Hylec Academy Learning Organisation) offers videos and other training aids to the UK’s colleges that run electrical apprenticeships. This includes product samples and Q&A sessions with Hylec staff, provided to lecturers training the next generation of commercial electricians. The first video featured the UK’s first 100 per cent tool-free inline connection/junction box, Debox 2 SL, a registered design that includes a 4-pole screw-less push wire terminal block and 100 per cent tool-less assembly. As well as being IP-20 protected and flame retardant to UL94 V0, Debox SL boasts a number of safety features, including cable clamps incorporated into the box, a snap shut lid held with a supplied locking clip, and rip-off mounting ears that can be used to securely mount the box. Steve Robbins, sales director, Hylec-APL, comments: “We realised that we wanted to be more
involved in raising awareness of safety. Hylec-designed products incorporate features that make them easy for electricians to use in practice, and very often they have a higher than usual specification, which means they are safer as well. We decided that if apprentices are given the opportunity to see real-life installations and hear from people in the industry who have a lifetime’s experience, plus others who design the products they will be using in their professional life, this could add an extra dimension to their training and enhance learning.” The HALO programme launched in December 2016.
Hylec-APL
www.hylec-apl.com
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