Using NLG to Manage Information in Medical Emergencies

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Designing a Mobile Device for Pre-hospital Care

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ALUSID 100% recycled ceramics products

ALUSID is based in Preston, Lancashire, where it manufactures SilicaStone® - an eco-architectural material made from 100% recycled glass and vitrified ceramic that would otherwise end up in landfill. Its unique, patent pending, process allows for materials to be created without the use of resin, cement or other binders, making it fire and heat resistant as well as making it recyclable at the end of its life

Prototype examples of kiln cast recycled ceramic and glass waste. Featured in exhibition: 'Object Factory' - The Art of Industrial Ceramics. The Gardiner Museum, Toronto, Canada

Object Factory: The Art of Industrial Ceramics is the first major U.S. museum exhibition to survey contemporary innovation in industrial ceramic production and the renaissance of ceramics in art and design today. The exhibition explores how artists and designers are reviving interest in ceramics through collaborations with industry that enhance and sometimes subvert the industrial process. Object Factory presents works created for leading manufacturers as well as artworks by independent artists and designers. Both non-functional and functional works are highlighted, as are important technological advances in ceramic material that allow for its use in electronic appliances, cutting implements, and other surprising products. The exhibition was curated by acclaimed ceramic artist and designer Marek Cecula and is accompanied by a 120-page, fully illustrated catalogue published and distributed by the Gardiner Museum, Toronto

Brick: The Book

The Brick project was a major research project investigating and re-inventing the brick as a building material. with 16 international participants and a major exhibition as part of Rotterdam Year of Architecture. the book documents the work and experiments of the 2 year project

The 'Brick' project

The Brick project was an initiated by the EKWC (European Work Centre - SG ‘s-Hertogenbosch, The Netherlands), in conjunction with Wienerberger Brick Co. The project involved an invited group of international architects, designers and visual artists developing innovative new ceramic building products - new types of brick or new uses for existing bricks. The project culminated with book highlighting the outcomes 12 month project and an a major exhibition at the Groot Handelsgebouw exhibition centre in Rotterdam, as part of 2007 European City of Architecture

Provision of dietary education in UK-based cardiac rehabilitation: a cross-sectional survey conducted in conjunction with the British Association for Cardiovascular Prevention and Rehabilitation.

Dietary education is a core component of cardiac rehabilitation (CR). It is unknown how or what dietary education is delivered across the United Kingdom (UK). We aimed to characterise practitioners who deliver dietary education in UK CR and determine the format and content of the education sessions. A 54-item survey was approved by the British Association for Cardiovascular Prevention and Rehabilitation (BACPR) committee and circulated between July and October 2021 via two emails to the BACPR mailing list and on social media. Practitioners providing dietary education within CR programmes were eligible to respond. Survey questions encompassed: practitioner job title and qualifications, resources, and the format, content and individual tailoring of diet education. Forty-nine different centres responded. Nurses (65.1%) and dietitians (55.3%) frequently provided dietary education. Practitioners had no nutrition-related qualifications in 46.9% of services. Most services used credible resources to support their education, and 24.5% used BACPR core competencies. CR programmes were mostly community-based (40.8%), lasting 8-weeks (range: 2-25) and included 2 (range: 1-7) diet sessions. Dietary history was assessed at the start (79.6%) and followed-up (83.7%) by most centres; barriers to completing assessment were insufficient time, staffing, or other priorities. Services mainly focused on the Mediterranean diet whilst topics such as malnutrition and protein intake were lower priority topics. Service improvement should focus on increasing qualifications of practitioners, standardisation of dietary assessment, and improvement in protein and malnutrition screening and assessment

Ceramics and Architecture

The Second publication to come from the EKWC Brick Project. The book was produced to coincide with a major exhibition at Dutch Design Week in Eindhoven , The Netherlands. The book documents research conducted through the EKWC 'Brick' project and represents state of the art thinking on the future development of bricks and their use in architecture. A section of the book discusses research and prototypes developed in the Silicate Research Unit by Alasdair Bremner and David Binns