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16/11/2023

How AI is helping to track the Antarctic Slope Current

When Alan Clark, one of our developers, began studying for his environmental Masters degree, little did he realise just how useful his knowledge around programming would be.

His dissertation focused on the westbound Antarctic Slope Current that circulates the continental shelf and plays a key role in regulating cross shelf flows from the Southern Ocean to the coastline, influencing the rate of ice melt.

Using his experience around AI and machine learning his research analysed the variability of sea surface heights coupled with surface geostrophic velocities and atmospheric wind forcing over a 16-year timeframe between July-2002 and October-2018.

His findings found there was a trend increase in sea surface height and indicated a coupling with climate systems such as El Nino, Interdecadal Pacific Oscillation, and Southern Annular Mode. This rise in sea surface heights also suggests additional increases of cross shelf exchanges and ice melt, that may be linked to climate change.

The subpolar Southern Ocean around Antarctica connects the Pacific, Indian and Atlantic oceans and is integral to the overall oceanic global processes to drive heat exchange across the globe.

The Antarctic Slope Current acts as a barrier to poleward cross slope and cross shelf flows heading towards the Antarctic coast. However, increased reduction in its strength allows warmer water exchanges more readily, thus warming the waters under ice shelfs and surrounding Antarctic margins resulting in iced melt.

Alan used his analytical skills to interrogate data from satellites around sea surface heights, open source data from the Euro Space Agency and European Medium Weather Forecast for zonal and meridian wind speed. He used Python for the geospatial data around graphs and charts and integrated this into Microsoft Power BI for outputs.

Having successfully completed his dissertation, this experience will now be applied to our ongoing carbon projects to identify patterns of variation in core data sets.

10/11/2023

Taking the high seas to success
Congratulations to Alan Clark for completing his environmental Masters Degree. Prōject EU is involved in a number of carbon monitoring and net zero projects that utilise our experience in business analytics and reporting.

Alan’s understanding of the complex carbon calculations has been key to helping us work on leading edge carbon projects such as CINT. Remarkably he has managed to combine studying at the University of Southampton for his degree in Masters of Research in Ocean Science while continuing to work with the team.

As a keen sailor, he has had an ongoing interest in the environment and finding ways to track changes and predict impacts, deciding to do a natural science degree that would cover the ocean and costal aspects such as sea levels and sea-life (such as turtle hatching and survival).

Well done Alan!

09/11/2023

It was a pleasure to join the team from the University of Dundee at this year's Courier Awards

07/11/2023

We've been awarded a KTP

Construction projects of the future could be significantly greener as part of our major new Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP) project, being undertaken at the University of Dundee.

Experts from the University’s School of Science and Engineering are to help develop new software capable of calculating and managing carbon levels produced throughout the design, building and refurbishment of any project.
Working with us, and supported with funding from Innovate UK, the Dundee team will develop a carbon analysis tool allowing the sector to utilise data that will allow them to effectively calculate emissions generated throughout the lifetime of any construction project.

Read more here:...https://buff.ly/3smi1Ql

28/09/2023

Are you battling with:
- A system which lacks real-time capabilities
- A model that has become convoluted and challenging-to-sustain

If you are then the solution could be relatively straight-forward.

Explore the solution we crafted for a client that facilitates near real-time analytics and how we designed a dedicated data warehouse to maximise the performance and accommodate intricate business logic:
https://buff.ly/45WgPl3

25/09/2023

!!We are a ISTAS23 Winner!!

Project has been working closely with the University of Hertfordshire and St Albans City and District Council on the CINT project.

Dr Sivio Carta presented the paper we submitted on City - Net Zero looking at the urban impacts of carbon footprints to the IEEE International Symposium on Technology and Society (ISTAS23) Technology and Analytics for Global Development 13th – 15th September 2023 Swansea University, Swansea, Wales.

There was immense interest on the topic and we were awarded "The best conference paper" award. Congratulations to the whole CINT team.

21/09/2023

Taming the beast – what to do when your system becomes unmanageable.

Many of our clients have complex legacy systems that don’t provide the agility or flexibility required by evolving business requirements.

The team are well versed in working with client teams to create a solution that delivers the business outcomes without having to change systems. One of our latest projects was to develop a near real-time Oracle Business Intelligence solution intended to supplant the customer's existing Oracle BI Applications setup.

Find out how the team addressed how the lack of real-time capabilities in the existing system and requirement for more data than the BI Applications could provide here: https://buff.ly/45WgPl3

24/08/2023

We are delighted to be part of a KTP team, including the University of Dundee, seeking an Associate to work on an exciting new carbon reporting project. This is a fascinating project - definitely worth a look for someone who is interested in carbon analysis within the construction industry.

The full details are available:

We are delighted to be part of a KTP team, including the University of Dundee, seeking an Associate to work on an exciting new carbon reporting project. This…

29/06/2023

The recent announcement that The Scottish Government has published new rules about all new buildings in Scotland being fitted with climate-friendly heating systems is definitely encouraging. The new regulations before Parliament will go live in April 2024 if passed and directly meet a commitment in the “Bute House” Shared Policy Programme between the Scottish Government and the Scottish Green Party.

It is particularly apt as we are just starting an R&D project around benchmarking carbon within the construction industry.

See the full article here: https://buff.ly/442NEMj

28/06/2023

Celebrating our collaboration with University of Dundee

Since beginning discussions on potential joint R&D projects with University of Dundee, we have created a successful collaboration with the Computing and Civil Engineering school.

Our latest collaboration, looking at carbon reporting within the construction industry, is about to begin – allowing us to bring together our big data and development skills, with Mike Crabbe’s computing expertise and Moray Newland’s civil engineering knowledge.

Donna Butchart joined the team to share her thoughts on why the collaboration is such a success – find out how the team have benefited from coming together on the project:

This video was created in partnership with | Hear from our industry collaborators about how working with the University of Dundee has benefitted ...

01/06/2023

The team attended the opening of the new Strathallan Business Centre, as Mike Penning MP declared the facilities officially open.

Having been based there, it was interesting to see how the property has been developed to provide hot desking, presentation rooms, client meeting spaces and a dedicated media centre for members. It will, no doubt, provide us additional meeting space for the team as they hold training sessions and client events.

MP Sir Mike Penn opened the new Strathallan Business Centre in Hemel and congratulated working mum Donna Butchart – the brains behind the venture – and her team for the initiative that had gone into the concept.

16/05/2023

As an official Partner for the innovative Strathallan Business Centre, the team from Prōject EU will be attending the opening on Wednesday, when Rt Hon Sir Mike Penning MP will be cutting the ribbon to open the new business facilities.

The event has made the headlines, with Hemel Today publishing an article about the opening. https://www.hemeltoday.co.uk/business/mp-sir-mike-penning-to-officially-open-unique-new-business-centre-in-hemel-hempstead-4142875

The team will be making use of the presentation rooms and media centre for client meetings and training sessions.

It was the brain child of working mum Donna Butchart