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Five buildings, including proposals for the city’s tallest at 213 metres, make up the next phase of the developer’s skyline-transforming Great Jackson Street masterplan. Renaker has today unveiled…
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JAPANESE industrial company Daikin has signed a deal with Manchester to deploy heat pumps in some of its public buildings and act as a test bed for the technology, the company told Reuters…
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Greater Manchester, as part of a collaborative across the North-West, will receive funding from NHS England to begin the development of a sub-national Secure Data Environment for Research &…
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The UK’s green economy contributed $71bn in Gross Value Added (GVA) last year according to a major new report from think-tank the Energy and Climate Intelligence Unit (ECIU). Greater Manchester has…
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The University of Manchester’s Graphene Engineering Innovation Centre (GEIC) has signed a Tier 1 agreement with Nationwide Engineering Research & Development (NERD). The agreement will extend the…
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New facilities will provide a great airport experience and attract new routes to the UK’s global gateway in the North Investment will unlock billions in economic value for the North, supporting…
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From 16 th to 19 th January, Greater Manchester welcomed a delegation of city officials, academic and business leaders to the city-region to build on opportunities for partnership on the road to Net…
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Applications for Spring cohorts of the Empowering Women to Lead, Cyber Security programme now open! An innovative cross-sector initiative, designed to tackle the long standing lack of gender diversity…
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An insurance company is launching a technology and data hub in Manchester city centre. Canopius Group (Canopius), a global specialty (re)insurer, is set to open the Canopius Tech & Data Hub at WeWork…
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His Excellency Vikram Doraiswami, the High Commissioner of India to the United Kingdom, has recently visited Stockport constituency in the first ever visit of an Indian High Commissioner to Stockport…
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