Altrad Babcock attend a nuclear research showcase event in Strathclyde, Scotland

Altrad Babcock’s Vivienne Chan, Simon Cadwallader, Ian Laidlaw and Bert Holt attended the ANRC Showcase Event held at University of Strathclyde on the 21st and 22nd February 2023. Altrad Babcock are tier 1 members of the ANRC, which is an industrial partner led research organisation that was formed to match innovation to an industrial partner’s future business needs through a collaboratively developed ‘research road map’. The showcase event was attended by 120 delegates, with representatives from 25 companies and academics from the University of Strathclyde, University of Glasgow, The Alan Turing Institute and The Universities of Waterloo and Regina from Canada.

The event contained a mix of industrial and academic presentations, including focused tours of key innovations developed (or under development) and state-of-the-art facilities, a stand exhibition area and an evening poster session supported by 40 PhD students. Bert Holt represented Altrad Babcock by making the first conference presentation titled ‘from innovation to implementation’.

The event showcased the need for collaboration, technological innovation, and digitalisation to meet the cost reduction challenges facing nuclear new build and decommissioning in the UK and global nuclear market.