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Manchester Metropolitan University’s new Arts and Humanities building integrates an energy efficient smart building system - reinforcing its top spot on the People & Planet League, an environmental ranking of UK universities.

In its continual efforts to enhance customer experience, ABB is investing in Stockholm-based start-up, Mavenoid. The hardware support platform uses innovative artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) to solve customer enquiries with high success rates.

● School of Engineering deploys Schneider Electric’s suite of solutions and services, providing a roadmap for campus-wide innovation
● Proactive facilities management delivered through IoT technologies, cloud-based analytics that can be linked to Computer-Aided Facility Management (CAFM), and Integrated Workplace Management Systems (IWMS)
● Schneider Electric solutions enable the Russell Group university to realise its vision of a fully connected, data-enabled, efficient, and sustainable Smart Campus

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• Investment enables ABB E-mobility to meet increasing market demand for electric vehicle chargers

• Manufacturing operations in Columbia, South Carolina localize the supply chain closer to customers and will create 100+ jobs

• US manufactured charging products will serve public networks, school bus and fleet markets as early as 2023

● The Forge is the UK’s first commercial building designed in line with the UK Green Building Council’s (UKGBC) net zero carbon framework in both construction and operation

● Powered by 100% renewable electricity and 107 PV panel

● Attained a c25% reduction in embodied carbon at the construction phase using innovative platform design for manufacturing and assembly (P-DfMA) techniques

● Optimises operational energy consumption using Schneider Electric’s IoT smart building and energy management solutions to provide full lifecycle energy efficiency and sustainable operations

• Children are playing a key role in accelerating the switch to electric cars, an ABB E-Mobility study for World EV Day has found
• Half of parents reported being educated on environmental issues by their children, with three in five discussing EV purchase plans with them
• UK children are more likely than the global average to want to own an electric vehicle when they’re old enough
• Despite growing desire, more than half of parents said that their employer’s policies did not support the switch to driving electric

ABB E-mobility has today strengthened its position as the world leader in EV charging solutions with the opening of the company’s largest DC fast charger production site to date - the E-mobility Centre of Excellence in Valdarno, Tuscany.

In the new episode of ABB Decoded, Formula E’s Founder and Chairman tells how the sport has exceeded his expectations. Agag discusses the impact the Championship has had on EV adoption and he talks about technological development and shares his views for the future.

As part of ambitious plans to decarbonize its network by 2040, Northern Powergrid, which provides power to 3.9 million homes and businesses in northern England, is piloting ABB’s eco-efficient Medium Voltage (MV) switchgear.

Considering that heating and cooling accounts for 20-40% of energy costs in a typical office environment, continuous monitoring and optimization of HVAC and lighting should be at the heart of every organization’s strategy.

• What if you have multiple tenants with various or even opposing requirements? You know this can be costly.
• What if you need to run analysis across mixed platforms, and you wish to optimize the time spent on day to day BMS management?

ABB Cylon delivers scalable, front-end building automation solutions, open protocol building controls, and cloud-based energy analytic tools to meet the need of today's high-performance, green-conscious commercial facilities.

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Digitalization is changing the world of energy distribution – making it safer, smarter and more sustainable. ABB’s solutions for sub distribution protect, monitor, measure and eventually make any installation smart. 

However, how long does it take to carry out the first system commissioning?
What’s the quickest and easiest way to perform the installation step by step?

Beyond Connected How-To video tutorials will give you the technical answers to:

• Understand key product features
• Get quick first level of support 
• Speed up and simplify installation and commissioning 

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New issue charts some of the most exciting innovations in the ABB Ability^TM portfolio of digital solution. Articles from ABB experts examine key use cases for the industrial Internet of Things (IoT) in enabling better decision-making at scale.

In an effort to tackle challenges like growing population, climate change and energy consumption, national governments across the world are imposing tighter restrictions on building use and emissions.

Smart buildings are increasingly taking a leadership role in the development of smart cities and are widely recognized as essential tools in meeting the many challenges that we face today.

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• ABB collaborates with Ecotricity on new 10 MW grid scale battery project
• Paving the way for the National Grid’s journey to Net Zero by 2050
• Highlighting the potential of BESS to stabilize the grid

ABB and IfM Engage, the knowledge transfer arm of the Institute for Manufacturing, create energy management blueprints for the future. A strategic roadmap outlines a plan to tackle customer challenges of rising energy costs and environmental targets.

The new Panel builder Price List catalogue was created to provide you with the best support, to easily build switchboards and win more customers. Download the new catalogue today for free!

ABB and Samsung Electronics will collaborate in a global partnership to provide jointly developed technologies for energy savings, energy management, and the smart Internet of Things (IoT) connection of both residential and commercial buildings.

Munro Vehicles, the British start-up and builder of all-terrain four-wheel-drive electric vehicles (EVs) has unveiled its prototype Munro Mark 1 all-electric 4x4 at ABB’s cable protection facility in Coleshill, UK.

In such unprecedented times of economic, environmental and societal pressures, the world is transforming at an accelerated rate. Is your organisation transforming to keep pace?

A renewable energy scheme is unveiled as part of upgrades to a Scottish reservoir. Torishima Service Solutions Europe Ltd, using an ABB generator and regenerative drive on their turbine have provided a scheme producing green energy which is returned to the grid.

Calling all distributors. ABB Electrification Course Finder can help you build knowledge and real skills to support your customers. With learning structured by customer need and +1000 short courses, it’s easy-to-use, relevant and practical.   

The £25m project will help stabilise the power grid as renewable energy replaces larger fossil-fuelled rotating power plants.

C-TEC will be showcasing a host of integrated residential and commercial fire alarm solutions on Stand 3a/G50 including EVAC-ALERT, a new BS 8629 evacuation alert system, Hush, a revolutionary BS 5839-6 Grade C domestic fire system, CAST, C-TEC’s powerful own-protocol fire system, and a new Cloud-based fire alarm remote access, service and site management software package.

LEADING life-safety systems manufacturer, C-TEC, has launched a new series of BS 5839-1 fire detection and fire alarm system compliance courses.