Cambridge MD becomes a Fellow of the Institute of Sales Management
Cambs Fine Management is delighted to announce that following a Grading Committee meeting at the Institute of Sales Management headquarters, its Managing Director, Mr Nikos Kalavas (MA, BA, FInstSMM) was awarded the highest possible membership grading, of a Fellow via the evaluation of his experience, qualifications and knowledge process.
Cambridge Design and Construction Award 2013 Winners Announced
Three developments have been awarded top honours as part of Cambridge City Council’s annual design and construction awards. The announcement was made at the annual dinner of the Cambridge Forum for the Construction Industry (CFCI) on Friday 21st March. The awards are co-sponsored by the CFCI and Cambridge News.
Winners announced in national programming challenge
Schoolchildren and undergraduates gathered this week at London’s Science Museum for the final of PA Consulting Group’s second Raspberry Pi programming competition. Thirteen groups of finalists presented their inventions – which would ‘help the environment’ – to a high-profile judging panel.
Fortescue Metals choose Sepura for their railway TETRA network
Sepura TETRA radios have been selected to operate on the first long haul railway radio network owned by the major Australian mining organisation Fortescue Metals Group (FMG).
Fran May Photography - commissioned to produce the photography for the Emmanuel Review 2014
Fran May has been creating images for the University College publications since 1982.
A new computer screen sharing app from RealVNC is now available for iPad and iPhone
RealVNC launches deskhop on the App Store - its computer screen sharing app for Facebook friends.
New talent joins Somersault
Somersault has added two new faces to its production ranks, with Stefan Georgiou joining as a Producer/Editor and Chris Stylianou as a Production Assistant.
Lord Baker officially tops out new UTC Cambridge
Cambridge’s visionary new University Technical College marked a key moment when former Education Secretary Lord Baker performed a topping out ceremony – and predicted it would be a “great success”.
Raspberry Pi launches £1 million education fund
The Raspberry Pi Foundation - originator of the low cost, credit-card sized computer that is taking the world by storm - has today launched a £1 million education fund.
Cambridge Biomedical Campus wins award
The Cambridge Biomedical Campus last night (Thursday) won the Place Making Award in Property Week's Property Awards 2014.
Pothole funding a positive step, say engineers
Each year the Asphalt Industry Alliance (AIA) commissions a survey of highways departments in all local authorities in England and Wales.
Adaptation to climate change should be good for everyone
The latest IPCC report takes a much more positive view of adaptation, says The Scientific Alliance.
Sepura appoints Talking Headsets as DMR channel partner in the UK
Sepura partners with Talking Headsets Limited for the supply of Digital Mobile Radio (DMR) products and solutions to end user organisations in the UK.
Downing College supports local wildlife initiatives
Downing College Cambridge has recently become a corporate member of the Cambridgeshire Wildlife Trust as part of its mission to strengthen its links with nature organisations in the community and increase its environmental credentials.
Cambridge hosts national event focusing on conference ambassador programmes
Conference Cambridge, the free venue-finding service for the University, Colleges, hotels and other unique properties in and around Cambridge, has just hosted this year’s meeting of the prestigious Great Ambassador Networking Group (GANG2014).
How niffy nappies could help develop new weapons in fight against bacteria
Bacteria 'plan ahead' by tightening their belts to help them survive looming lean periods, researchers at Cambridge have discovered.
Six critical themes that will make a real difference in your next staff survey
A well thought out and executed staff survey can be gold dust to your organisation’s development plan, but how do you go about it?
IAG holds its first full Assembly of the year in Salzburg
Birketts was represented by Daden Hunt, current IAG Secretary, Nick Burnett, former Chairman, and first time attendee Clare Hedges. They joined 70 other delegates including representatives from two prospective members - Aaron & Partners, an English law firm based in Chester and the North West of England, and Serafim Sotiriadis & Associates, a Greek law firm based in Athens.
JELD-WEN employs Domino to boost wooden door production line
JELD-WEN, one of the world’s leading suppliers of quality doors, windows, and stairs, has recently upgraded its coding and marking solutions with the installation of Domino’s coding automation software, QuickDesign Unite, and G220i thermal ink jet printer.
Business and leisure connections expand at Stansted with 9 new routes
Stansted’s extensive route network now serves over 160 direct scheduled flight connections to Europe, thanks to the launch of the first nine new routes this week, firmly positioning it as ‘London’s Airport for Europe’.
VirtualStudio.TV issues video newsletter for March 2014
This month,VirtualStudio.TV hosted a housewarming party in its new studio, filmed on location with the NHS in Essex and spent two days at the NEC for Siemens. The team also received four RAR Award Nominations and flew out to Germany to do some filming with Thermo Fisher Scientific.
EMBL Ventures invests in Crescendo Biologics
EMBL Ventures invests £2M ($3.3M) in a second close of Crescendo Biologics’ Series A Financing
College buildings win awards
Three Cambridge College buildings have been singled out in the 2013 Cambridge Design and Construction Awards announced last week.
Association of Project Management guest blog by David Willcock
In this guest blog David Willcock explains how project teams can avoid silo working and increase the chances of successful programme delivery.
Cycle infrastructure consultation, Hills Road and Huntingdon Road - have your say
Changes are coming to Hills Road and Huntingdon Road! Cambridgeshire County Council wants to improve conditions for cyclists, pedestrians and bus users. But the public consultation for both schemes ends next Monday (7 April 2014) so do fill out the online questionnaire.