Events (11)

Meeting with Bikeplus
Feb 28, 2017

Description	Achille met Antonia Roberts, Director of Bikeplus (http://www.carplus.org.uk/projects/bikeplus/), to discuss possible research collaborations.
People	Achille Fonzone
Research Areas	Smart mobility Transport policy
Themes	Culture and Communities
Research Centres/Groups	Transport Research Innovation Centre

Public transport: from provision to operations
Jan 16, 2017

Location	Glassroom, Merchiston Campus, 10 Colinton Road, Edinburgh, EH10 5DT.
Description	The Transport Research Institute of Edinburgh Napier University is hosting a seminar on public transport, featuring Nigel Wilson- Professor at MIT, George Lowder-CEO of Transport for Edinburgh, and Tom Rye, Jonathan Cowie and Achille Fonzone from Napier. Please find the programme and the topics of the presentations below. The seminar will take place in the Glassroom of Edinburgh Napier University, 10 Colinton Road, EH10 5DT at 3pm on 16 January 2017. Please confirm your participation by registering at the following link: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/public-transport-from-provision-to-operations-tickets-30218187412. Programme 15:00 - 15.05: Iain McIntosh, ENU, Welcome. 15.05 - 15.15: George Lowder, TfE, The importance of enhancing public transport for Edinburgh. 15.15 - 16:00: Nigel Wilson, MIT, Using Automated Data Sources to improve the performance of Public Transport Systems: a framework and applications. 16:00 - 16:25: Tom Rye, ENU, Recent TRI research on public transport. 16:25 - 16:50: Achille Fonzone, ENU, Determining Fare Structures - Evidence and recommendations from a qualitative survey among transport authorities. 16:50 - 17:15: Jonathan Cowie, ENU, Consumer Sovereignty in the British rail industry. 17:15 - 18:00: Drinks and nibbles (Apex above the café)
People	Achille Fonzone Jonathan Cowie
Themes	AI and Technologies Culture and Communities
Research Centres/Groups	Transport Research Innovation Centre

European Metropolitan Transport Authorities
May 12, 2016

Location	Budapest
Description	Dr Achille Fonzone participated in the meeting of the European Metropolitan Transport Authorities (http://emta.com/) in Budapest on 12.5.16.  Prof Jan-Dirk Schmoecker from Kyoto University and Dr Fonzone presented and discussed the first results of their research on public transport fare structure. The survey highlights that public transport authorities are generally concerned with the “fairness” of their fares. However “fair fare” has different meanings in different contexts. The research attracted the interest of the very qualified audience, including representatives of the main transport authorities in Europe and members of the consortium of CIPTEC - Collective Innovation for Public Transport in European Cities (http://ciptec.eu/). Prof Schmoecker and Dr Fonzone are now discussing with EMTA further developments of the work. For more information, please contact Dr Fonzone at a.fonzone@napier.ac.uk.
People	Achille Fonzone
Research Areas	Transport policy
Themes	AI and Technologies
Research Centres/Groups	Transport Research Innovation Centre

Invitation to meeting at Department for Transport’s Science Advisory Council (SAC)
Apr 29, 2016

Description	Dr Achille Fonzone deputised for Prof Tom Rye at a meeting of the Department for Transport’s Science Advisory Council (SAC) on 29 April 2016. The Council, chaired by Professor Lord Mair, provides strategic level scientific advice and challenge to the department. Dr Fonzone was invited to discuss on behalf of Universities Transport Study Group (http://www.utsg.net/web/) how DfT can enhance its collaboration with Universities to generate the evidence needed for sound transport policy.
People	Achille Fonzone
Research Centres/Groups	Transport Research Innovation Centre

beX Learning Week 2019
Feb 18, 2019

Location	Edinburgh, Glasgow, Falkland, Boat of Garten and Alness
Description	The following activities will take place over the course of the learning week: - Visiting CCG(OSM) one of the most advanced offsite construction fabricators in the UK. For those that don’t know CCG they were a delivery partners in the Commonwealth Games Athletes Village and recently constructed the tallest timber building in Scotland from Cross Laminated Timber. CCG invested £12M setting up this state of the art facility and they will provide us with an in-depth insight in to their operations including an access all areas factory and site tour. You’ll get the chance to meet and hear from Calum Murray a director of CCG, the Structural Timber Association and Offsite Solutions Scotland. - Mass Timber Evening Seminar introduction the topic of mass timber construction including a series of case study talks from the Centre for Offsite Construction + Innovative Structures. Case studies will include the American Hardwood Export Council "Multi-Ply" Project, Carbon Dynamic Dyson Project and CCG Yoker Project. - The Falkland Palace (a former Scottish royal palace) and Estate tour with follow on collaborative workshop with the GSD students. Ninian Stewart who is the Hereditary Keeper of Falkland Palace and co-founder of the Falkland Centre for Stewardship and Guy Wat from the Scottish Forest and Timber Technologies Industry Leadership Group will host us for the day. This visit provides a unique opportunity to understand the modern day challenges of running a sustainable estate as well as an in-depth insight into their current project portfolio of investment including the creation of a sustainable community of off-grid ‘tiny houses’ utilising a design for manufacture and assembly and disassembly approach (DfMA+D). - BSW Saw Mill and Carbon Dynamic tours. BSW were founded in 1848 and are the largest saw miller operator in the UK with additional facilities in Eastern Europe. Dave Mills their head of production at Boat of Garten will host and provide an in-depth insight in to how logs are felled, selected, processed and graded for structural applications. Carbon Dynamic is a modular construction start-up, this visit will demonstrate how volumetric construction components are formed and as well as showcase how cutting edge technologies such as Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality are being utilised in the construction sector. - Mutual Placemaking Workshop. This final day collaboration will see Edinburgh Napier University beX and Harvard GSD students collaborate via a design thinking workshop. The knowledge and understanding derived from the week will be combined with an interdisciplinary approach to determine sustainable solutions for an actual vacant site in the centre of Edinburgh. This material will be captured such that it can be showcased at the Holz Forum UK exhibition on the 9th and 10th of May. This workshop is strategic and linked to the Scottish Government backed Task Force for Vacant and Derelict land being led by the Scottish Land Commission and Scottish Environmental Protection Agency.
People	Robert Hairstans Wojciech Plowas Andrew Livingstone
Research Areas	Offsite construction and Innovative Structures
Themes	Culture and Communities
Research Centres/Groups	Institute for Sustainable Construction
URL	www.napier.ac.uk/beX

Innovation Talk
Nov 14, 2022

Location	Smart Connected Vehicles Innovation Centre, The first academic research lab in Canada's largest technology park, and University of Ottawa's Kanata North campus, Ottawa- Canada.
Description	An Invited Talk from University of Ottawa's Kanata North campus, Smart Connected Vehicles Innovation Center. The talk is about Digital Twin Networks in 6G ERA: The Real-Time Connected Intelligence
People	Berk Canberk
Research Areas	Internet of Things Networks
Themes	AI and Technologies
URL	https://www.linkedin.com/posts/smart-connected-vehicles-innovation-centre_scvic-tech-innovation-talk-series-digital-activity-6996198224646545410-_clY?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop

Making Gridshells
Oct 31, 2016

Location	Sheffield, UK
Description	Situated at Sheffield’s Hallam Square, Sheffield, the Magnolia Gridshell, is a design collaboration by Sheffield Hallam University with experts in this field from ETH Zurich and Edinburgh Napier University. This forms part of the trio of events entitled Making Gridshells as part of Sheffield Year of Making 2016.
People	Bernardino D'Amico
Research Areas	Timber engineering
Themes	Culture and Communities
URL	http://www4.shu.ac.uk/mediacentre/magnolia-steals-show-hallam-square

Pianodrome wood ID workshop
Apr 14, 2018

Location	Royal Botanic Gardens Edinburgh
Description	A typical piano contains between 8 and 16 different species of wood - each part is carefully designed to achieve a very specific purpose, with a wood species selected to match. The hammers must be tough, the soundboard should be resonant and the case beautiful. Join Daniel Ridley-Ellis and Stefan Lehneke from the Centre for Wood Technology at Edinburgh Napier University, and Andrew Gibson of the Wood Technology Society, to discover which wood is used for each part of the piano, and how to tell your beech from your birch.
People	Dan Ridley-Ellis Stefan Lehneke
Research Areas	Wood science
Themes	Culture and Communities
Research Centres/Groups	Institute for Sustainable Construction

British Timber Seminar
Nov 29, 2017

Location	IOM3 London 297 Euston Road London, NW1 3AQ United Kingdom
Description	Join this group of true wood enthusiasts for an entertaining and informative programme of short talks for the British forestry and timber community. The event will showcase some of the new products and progress in British timber and wood science, and its relevance to the industry today. There will be opportunity to ask questions, network and discuss with others in the trade, consultants and specialists. Refreshments from 16.30 pm 17.00 Home-grown timber now and in the future Dan Ridley-Ellis, Edinburgh Napier University 17.30 New products from UK timbers Morwenna Spear, Bangor University 18.00 Wood composites – microscopic to macroscopic Martin Ansell, University of Bath The Wood Technology Society is part of The Institute of Materials Minerals and Mining (IOM3). This free event is being held in ‘The Mine’, at the IOM3 headquarters, conveniently situated next to Warren Street tube station. The Wood Technology Society, formerly the Institute of Wood Science (IWSc). Our purpose is to advance and encourage the scientific, technical, practical and general knowledge of timber and wood based materials.
People	Dan Ridley-Ellis
Research Areas	Wood science Timber engineering
Themes	Culture and Communities
Research Centres/Groups	Institute for Sustainable Construction
URL	http://www.iom3.org/wood-technology-society/

SIRT research update
Nov 17, 2017

Location	Construction Scotland Innovation Centre (CSIC) Watt Pl Blantyre Glasgow, G72 0AG United Kingdom
Description	On Friday 17th November we will be holding a seminar to update you on the latest research on timber. The morning session is open to all and will include summaries on two recently completed PhD projects at University of Glasgow (managing twist and other drying distortion, and understanding moisture variation in trees and roundwood). This will be combined with ongoing research from Forest Research and Surrey University (modelling moisture movement in wood, and moisture cracking of trees), and – of course – the very latest research from Edinburgh Napier University on grading settings, and alternative conifer species – both material properties and the results of our recent survey of sawmillers’ experience. We’ll still have time to fit in the latest news on what we are planning to do with NUI Galway (including new machine grading settings for Douglas-fir) and an update from Andrew Gibson on the Modern Apprenticeship Framework in Wood and Timber Industries Level 2.
People	Dan Ridley-Ellis
Research Areas	Timber engineering Wood science
Themes	Culture and Communities
URL	http://blogs.napier.ac.uk/cwst/event/sirt-seminar/