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SUMMARY:Public Policy Seminar: A Strategy for the UK Steel Industry - Prof
 essor Julian Allwood\, Faculty of Engineering
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CONTACT:Dr Charlotte Sausman
DESCRIPTION:Julian Allwood is Professor of Engineering and the Environment
  at the University of Cambridge. He worked for 10 years for Alcoa\, prior 
 to developing an academic career\, initially at Imperial College\, and fro
 m 2000 in Cambridge. In parallel with developing new manufacturing technol
 ogies for metals\, he has built up a research group looking at environment
 al systems and production. From 2009-13 he held an EPSRC Leadership Fellow
 ship\, to explore ‘material efficiency’ as a climate mitigation strate
 gy – delivering material services with less new material. This led to pu
 blication in 2012 of the book “Sustainable Materials: with both eyes ope
 n” which can be read online "here":www.withbotheyesopen.com\, listed by 
 Bill Gates as one of his top six reads of 2015. A revised edition "Sustain
 able Materials: without the hot air" has now been released. \n\nProfessor 
 Allwood has produced the following report\, which can be read as backgroun
 d to the seminar: "A Bright Future for UK Steel":https://www.cam.ac.uk/sys
 tem/files/a_bright_future_for_uk_steel_2.pdf.\n
LOCATION:Room 119\, Alison Richard Building\, 7 West Road
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