Morris+Company and AJ 40 under 40 star picked for Old Kent Road job
A team led by Morris+Company and featuring AJ 40 Under 40 practice West Port has been picked to design hundreds of homes in south-east London
The practices, working on the joint bid with Weston Williamson + Partners, were chosen by Southwark Council to transform the Currys PC World site in Old Kent Road.
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The scheme
– part of the council’s ambitious programme to build 11,000 new council homes across the borough by 2042
– will deliver about 500 new homes, half of which will be for social rent, together with 5,000m² of new commercial space.
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Project Heart is looking to pioneer zero-emission regional air services
A project to trial zero-carbon plane flights that includes architect Weston Williamson among its core team members has secured a £1.8m government grant to help services launch in four years’ time.
The practice is one of 10 organisations in the Project Heart consortium that is looking to trial zero-carbon, zero-emission hydrogen-electric flights between remote Scottish islands.
It said Project Heart, which stands for hydrogen-electric automated regional transport, would construct and operate the world’s first zero-emission 19-seater commercial aircraft route. The project, which will also include dedicated green hydrogen infrastructure, is targeting a start to services in 2025.
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Protium Green Solutions, the green hydrogen energy services company, has secured a significant grant for Project HEART from the UK Government as part of the latest Future Flight Challenge in partnership with Blue Bear Systems and ZeroAvia. Blue Bear Systems is the leading supplier of innovation and products in unmanned systems, and ZeroAvia is a US-based innovator and leader of decarbonising commercial aviation. Other consortium members include Britten-Norman, LoganAir, Inmarsat, Highlands & Islands Airport, Weston Williamson + Partners, Fleetondemand and Edinburgh Napier University.
The grant has been awarded as part of the UK Government’s Future Flight programme, funded by UK Research and Innovation as part of the Government’s modern industrial strategy, which invites businesses and innovators to take part in or source partners for revolutionising aviation as part of a £125 million challenge. The project commenced in December 2020 and will take 1