EEF Venues’ Engineers’ House conference venue in Clifton Down, Bristol is to host a conference on 14th June to support a campaign by Wood for Good to showcase how timber construction can help to solve the current housing crisis.

The theme of the conference is ‘The Self/Custom Build Timber House: Addressing the Housing Supply Challenge’ and is one of a series of conferences organised by Wood for Good, the timber industry’s communications organisation.

Researchers at the University of Gloucestershire have secured funding from the UK’s Newton Fund to work with researchers from Egypt and South Africa on understanding water and food security issues. The support comes from a British Council Researcher Links award.

Drs Kenny Lynch and Julie Ingram will lead a workshop in September with colleagues from Stellenbosch University and the American University Cairo to develop understanding of how new methods in ecosystems services can help secure our water and food security.  The workshop will take place at the Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Study.

The WRc Innovation Day is in its fifth year, with the theme of this year's event being "Sharing Knowledge for a Changing World". ALS Environmental are delighted to announce, that for the second consecutive year, we will be one of the exhibitors on site on the day, with demonstrations of our instant and informative confirmation technique for microbiology, MALDI-ToF, portable XRF for metals analysis and our SiteLAB UVF 3100D for rapid OnSite Hydrocarbon testing.

ALS Environmental will be exhibiting at the upcoming 36th Annual International Association of Hydrogeologists (IAH)/ Irish Group Conference in the Tullamore Court Hotel, Co Offaly, on 12-13th April 2016.