Gavin Welcomes News for Tyseley Energy Park and Plans for Landmark Building

Gavin welcomed news of success for the Birmingham Energy Institute and Tyseley Energy Park, praising the work of David Horsfall and the project team at the University of Birmingham under the leadership of Prof Martin Freer. He said it had been a privilege to be involved from the concept for a diagram of the project, in the launches of Energy Capital and the UoB–Fraunhofer Joint Research Platform, and in other work planned on site with the Birmingham Centre for Strategic Elements and Critical Materials.

In October 2019 he described collaboration meetings on a landmark new building, a placeholder for which he had drawn on the first Tyseley Energy Park infographic, and consultations with researchers and future users. The Birmingham Centre for Strategic Elements and Critical Materials was to have an area in the building, including space for the Faraday Institution's ReLiB project, where robotic disassembly of electric vehicle battery packs was being scaled up.