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Gravity congratulates Taunton-based Lendology CIC on its win at the Somerset Business Awards 2024 

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Somerset Business Awards 2024 

In a vibrant celebration of innovation and business excellence, the Somerset Business Awards 2024, organised by the Somerset Chamber of Commerce, showcased the remarkable achievements of local enterprises. With almost two decades of history, the awards have become a cornerstone event, recognising the resilience, creativity, and sustainable practices that define Somerset’s business landscape. This is Gravity’s Programme Director, Paul Lowndes, was in attendance, underscoring the event’s importance in fostering a thriving business community in Somerset

At the grand final Lendology CIC scooped the Gravity sponsored ‘Environmental and Sustainability Award’.

View the full list of winners on the night here.

This is Gravity’s Programme Director, Paul Lowndes, commented: “Across Gravity’s four years of sponsorship we have noticed a ratcheting up of the submission standards, with this award clearly inspiring the efforts of Somerset’s environmentally conscious businesses. Lendology CIC were awarded the Environmental & Sustainability Award for their demonstrable commitment to environmental stewardship and sustainable finance. I have huge respect for Cookswood Development – Lomax Design and Build and Zebra EM, both worthy finalists and most unfortunate to come up against Lendology CIC.

Lendology CIC commented: “This recognition means the world to us at Lendology CIC, as it underscores our commitment to supporting homeowners to invest in their properties to become greener and more sustainable through our partnerships with local councils.”

Somerset Chamber Chief Executive, Emma Rawlings, said: “We know many have faced some extremely challenging trading conditions again this last 12 months, so it was encouraging to hear about the successes of our finalists and winners and to be able to help them celebrate through the awards.”

Learn more about Lendology CIC by visiting their website.

About Gravity

Gravity is the UK’s first strategic commercial smart campus and a blueprint for a ‘cleaner’, smarter future. Anchored by the 40Gwh Agratas Gigafactory, the campus is now the catalyst for economic transformation across the South West. Delivering the Gravity campus will support the wider efforts towards transport decarbonisation as well as the UK’s acceleration progress on electrification.

Our site is at the heart of an ideal ecosystem and is the platform of choice to stimulate home-grown advanced battery manufacturing, it offers unrivalled connectivity, planning flexibility and access to world-class assets and talent pool with expertise in innovation and clean growth. Underpinning the ability to serve a multitude of customers across sectors in the transition to a net zero economy.

Gravity sponsors ‘Environmental & Sustainability Award’ at Somerset Business Awards 2024

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Gravity, the UK’s first commercial smart campus, is pleased to announce its continued sponsorship of the ‘Environmental and Sustainability Award’ at the Somerset Business Awards. This marks the fourth consecutive year of their support.

Organised by the Somerset Chamber of Commerce, the Somerset Business Awards celebrate the remarkable achievements of local individuals and businesses. They commend the significant impact these entities have on environmental protection as the world progresses towards a net-zero future.

Following the impressive entries and the eventual winner of 2023, ‘PVA Hygiene Limited’, Gravity’s Programme Director and award judge, Paul Lowndes, eagerly anticipates well-rounded and evidence-based submissions of Somerset companies this year.

This year’s award entries opened on September 12th and will conclude on November 24th. The ceremony is scheduled for March 22, 2024. Participation in the awards is free, and businesses are not required to be members of the Somerset Chamber to participate. This year, the awards have introduced two new categories: the Manufacturing and Engineering Award, and the Business Resilience and Growth Award.

Click here for more information on the Environmental & Sustainability Award.

Click here for entry information.

About Gravity

Gravity will be the UK’s first commercial smart campus and a blueprint for a ‘cleaner’, smarter future. It aims to attract the world’s most innovative companies working in the ‘clean growth’ sectors.

Expected to create up to 7,500 jobs, the 616-acre Enterprise Zone will be designed to shape connections between people and the places they work, supporting a culture of innovation and wellbeing. It will include diverse, flexible workspaces and resilient technologies along with enhanced transport links to, and within, the surrounding area.

Gravity awards Feritech Limited with FSB South West 2023 Sustainability Award

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Gravity Programme Director, Paul Lowndes, was in attendance at the Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) South West Awards 2023, hosted on March 1st in Western-Super-Mare.

The awards recognise and celebrate the best and brightest businesses within the region, for the second year running Gravity Smart Campus has sponsored, judged, and awarded the region’s FSB ‘Sustainability Award’.

Paul Lowndes was tasked with judging for the ‘Sustainability Award’, this year he decided to award it to ‘Feritech Limited, a Cornwall-based engineering and technology company for their holistic approach to the development of their £3m purpose-built Innovation Center.

Paul Lowdnes, Gravity Progarmme Director comments:

The entries received for the FSB Sustainability Award were all of a high standard. However, the Feritech entry was the most comprehensive. They have taken a radical approach to environmental sustainability in their new £3m purpose-built facility including rainwater harvesting, solar roof and battery storage, air source heat pumps, tree planting and many other initiatives.

They have also started to create a woodland area for their local community. In addition, they have seen significant business growth and expanded their team, including an apprentice scheme to “grow their own” engineers. Also, their commitment to sharing .25% of turnover to help fund local community and school projects is exemplary.

Feritech will proceed to represent the South West in the national final of these awards.

Click here for more information on the Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) and their awards

Thought leaders invited to ‘Green Recovery’ roundtable

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London, January 6, 2020 – Gravity is pleased to announce that it will be hosting a forward-thinking and catalyzing round table discussion ‘Powering the UK’s Green Recovery’. The event will focus on how the UK can practically implement the government’s ambitious commitments to achieve Net-zero by 2050.

Chaired by Gravity Director, Lord David Triesman and supported by Blackstock Consultancy the discussion will bring together industry-leading ideas from public and private sectors on some of the most pressing issues surrounding the ‘Green Recovery’, including;

  • What will the delivery of a Green Recovery look like?
  • How do we transform vision and rhetoric into concrete action?
  • How will a net-zero focused stimulus work in practice?

Highlights of the roundtable will be freely available after the event.

Details
Wednesday 20th January 2020

Watch Gravity’s ‘Delivering Clean Growth’ ICE’s SW webinar

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Gravity with our link road contractor, Alun Griffiths recently delivered a presentation to the Institute of Civil Engineering. The presentation highlighted how our partnership has enabled Gravity to deliver more sustainable growth while promoting innovation.

Programme Director, Paul Lowndes gave an overview of progress to date and outlined how 145,000 tonnes of site won material has been recycled and used to construct the link road.

Watch the webinar below

Gravity presents at ICE’s SW webinar

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Gravity and Alun Griffiths to present to the Institue of Civil Engineering

Gravity is proud to join our link road contractor, Alun Griffiths in a unique presentation to the Institute of Civil Engineering. The presentation will highlight how our partnership with Alun Griffiths enables Gravity to deliver more sustainable growth while promoting innovation.

Programme Director, Paul Lowndes will give an overview of progress to date and outline how some 145,000 tonnes of site won material has been recycled and used to construct the link road.

The webinar is free to watch, click here to book your spot.

Webainar Details

Wednesday 21st October

1pm-2pm

About Gravity

Gravity drives sustainability on-site with a high performing material management strategy

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London, September 8, 2020 – Gravity’s Programme Director, Paul Lowndes interviewed Chris Marshall, Director of Ashfield Solutions about the successful implementation of our bespoke material management strategy.

“Our partnership with Ashfield Solutions ensures that Gravity has and continues to recover, reuse, recycle and repurpose all suitable on-site materials. This has significantly reduced disruption in surrounding communities and reduced our carbon footprint.

We hope this strategy and its environmental considerations will guide more low-carbon developments across the UK”. Gravity’s Programme Director, Paul Lowndes

Watch the full interview below.

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About Gravity

Gravity, the UK’s first commercial smart campus, is the blueprint for a smarter, cleaner future – faster. It will deliver a new era of possibility by supporting companies making a difference socially, economically and environmentally, driving the UK’s shift to growing through a cleaner economy.

With direct access to the M5 and accessible by rail, air and sea, the site offers over 616 acres for the creation of millions of sq ft of scalable, flexible and shared working space.

Multinationals and start-ups will benefit from the excellent connectivity and speed of build out Gravity offers. By attracting today’s giants and tomorrow’s unicorns, there will be significant opportunities for collaboration.

With its on-site water provision, renewable and low carbon energy infrastructure and building energy management, dark fibre, excellent transport links, accessible talent pool and knowledge economy including four top-tier universities close by, Gravity provides occupiers with the ability to build, expand, and develop faster and efficiently.

Gravity to sponsor RTPI South West Dinner 2020

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London, February 2020 – Gravity, the UK’s first commercial smart campus, is delighted to announce that it will be sponsoring and attending the upcoming RTPI South West Dinner 2020.

Gravity is thrilled to support an event that celebrates projects and people that have contributed to the development of exceptional places. While highlighting the importance of planning in creating a more sustainable future.

If you are attending the event and would like to arrange a meeting with the Gravity team, please email info@thisisgravity.co.uk

 

About Gravity

Gravity, the UK’s first commercial smart campus, is the blueprint for a smarter, cleaner future – faster. It will deliver a new era of possibility by supporting companies making a difference socially, economically and environmentally, driving the UK’s shift to growing through a cleaner economy.

 

With direct access to the M5 and accessible by rail, air and sea, the site offers over 635 acres for the creation of millions of sq ft of scalable, flexible and shared working space.

 

Multinationals and start-ups will benefit from the excellent connectivity and speed of build out Gravity offers. By attracting today’s giants and tomorrow’s unicorns, there will be significant opportunities for collaboration.

 

With its on-site water provision, renewable and low carbon energy infrastructure and building energy management, dark fibre, excellent transport links, accessible talent pool and knowledge economy including four top-tier universities close by, Gravity provides occupiers with the ability to build, expand, and develop faster and efficiently.

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