Opinion

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IES are very pleased to launch their 2022-2023 programme!

As reported by BBC News Online today (15 July), the UK technology sector has a talent shortage which could “stifle growth”. There were more than two million UK job vacancies in tech last year – more than any other labour area – yet nearly 12 million workers lack essential digital skills.

UK-based launch services company Orbex is hiring an additional fifty staff members over the next six months. The new team members will support the company's final push to prepare for the first vertical rocket launch from UK soil over the coming months.

Scotland's biggest offshore wind farm has begun generating power.

Seagreen, which is located about 27km (17 miles) off the Angus coast in the North Sea, has been in development for more than a decade.

A wave energy converter that uses squeezed air to generate power will soon be deployed in the ocean following final tests and assembly.

‘Smart’ factories will be the prime target of most future cyberattacks, according to more than half of industrial organisations.

The world faces a broad set of challenges and an unprecedented rate of change to design and manufacture the infrastructure that will deliver net-zero emissions and provide the nutrition, healthcare, security and lifestyle that an increasingly wealthy global population will require.

The team behind a compact dialysis machine with unlikely origins has won a prestigious UK engineering award.

CIBSE is launching a new committee dedicated to retrofit and building services interventions in heritage buildings.

Diversity and inclusion organisation AFBE-UK Scotland has successfully ran its first senior leadership programme to help ethnic minority professionals progress into leadership roles.