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Type
Lecture

Gravity Smart Campus

Event organised by ICE

Date
27 November 2024
Time
17:00 - 18:30 GMT
Location
University of Exeter
(Harrison Building)
Lecture Theatre 103
North Park Road
Exeter, EX4 4PY
United Kingdom

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Overview

In 2017, Salamanca Group purchased the 616-acre brownfield site and Enterprise Zone now known as Gravity. Since then the group has remediated the site, built an award-winning access road, secured key utility provisions, and enhanced the planning consent through an LDO with Somerset Council. All designed to attract international investment through large-scale advanced manufacturing operators, to transform the local and regional economy.  

Following the announcement of a £4bn investment into the UK, Agratas (Tata Group’s global battery business) is gearing up to build the UK’s largest battery manufacturing facility ‘gigafactory’ at Gravity.

Join the ICE Exeter City Club and the ICE Exeter Early Careers Network for a lecture delivered by Paul Lowndes from This is Gravity. The event will highlight the achievements and milestones of the campus, showcasing how it is transforming the landscape of smart technology and sustainable practices. 

The lecture has been organised by the ICE Exeter City Club. Everyone is welcome.

There will be a Q&A session at the end of the presentation, followed by an opportunity to network with colleagues.

Please use the following What3Words to locate the building: hammer.successes.vest

Speaker

Paul Lowndes

Paul Lowndes

This is Gravity

programme director

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Paul Lowndes

Paul Lowndes is a programme director with more than 40 years of international experience delivering high-value property and infrastructure engineering programmes. Paul and his team take care of every aspect of project delivery from the initial brief, to analysing and advising on risk, helping appoint the project team, issuing procedures and managing development programmes.

Paul has overseen work across all Salamanca Group divisions and is currently playing a key role in the Gravity smart campus development. He was instrumental in the development of a large residential property portfolio and light industrial site in Brazil, the redevelopment of OneOcean Port Vell in Barcelona (a superyacht marina) and in the construction of Bulgaria Mall, one of the largest mixed-use schemes currently being developed in Bulgaria. Before joining Salamanca Group, Paul was a director at First Engineering Holdings Ltd where he oversaw a number of very large rail infrastructure projects.

Prior to this he was general manager at Gammon Construction Ltd responsible for the Philippines and prior to this was a director at WTP overseeing major Real Estate developments in various locations throughout Southeast Asia and Australia. Paul is a Chartered Quantity Surveyor [BSc, ARICS, AAIQS, AHKIS].

For more information please contact:

Yasemin Gurbuz