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Opinion

Grey belt is previously developed land, and/or land which doesn’t contribute strongly to green belt purposes
Policy & business

The Grey Belt is a crucial opportunity for expansion

Batteries

Comment: Data can help unlock lithium recycling

Only occupations classified as sufficiently skilled or in designated temporary shortage will be eligible for sponsorship of overseas workers
Skills & careers

Comment: What employers need to know about new immigration rules

Artificial Intelligence

Comment: Engineers must adapt to AI or fall behind

Energy & environment

Comment: Lessons from the Iberian grid outage

Open standards provide a clear path forward by encouraging interoperability between different systems
Skills & careers

Comment: Open automation can close the skills gap

Pivoting commercial strategies to take advantage of slackening legislation will be an important task for OEMs
Automotive

Comment: Putting the spark back into EVs

In today’s high-tech battlefield, the threat is no longer determined by troops on the ground, but by remotely controlled systems overhead
Aerospace

Comment: Anti-drone tech will be crucial to lasting peace in Europe

Challenges facing British manufacturing, especially our SMEs and downstream metal users, have been years in the making
Aerospace

Comment: The UK is closer to deindustrialisation than reindustrialisation

Skills & careers

Comment: Managing conflict in multidisciplinary engineering teams

Prototype models available today are a long way from achieving lofty goals
Electronics

Comment: Why quantum computing must prioritise scalability

A PPA is a contractual arrangement between a power producer and a manufacturer customer
Energy & environment

UK power purchase agreements: Direct, sleeved & synthetic models explained