Nicola Moriarty

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When you bring knowledgeable and thoughtful people together to address a problem there is a strongly perceived risk.That is the risk of just further discussion, just more circular arguments, just more vacillation and no action.

How valuable will it be?After all there were people in the room that in their own fields were already working very hard on these issues and had deep insight into it..Forming new connections across a broad sweep of the whole ecosystems of solvent use in Pharmaceutical and Agrochemical manufacture seemed to create some new insights, clarity and catalyse future collaborations.. What is the solvent dilemma?.

Solvents are used in large quantities in chemistry-based processing, their release to the atmosphere is climatically impactful, their waste streams are environmentally toxic, they represent a significant cost and risk in terms of treatment and regulation.There is a significant problem and no clear single path to addressing it.

Some progress can be made intra-company, other parts require innovation in the supply and waste chains.

Technological solutions need regulatory change, and other parts will need cross-sector collaboration.. To address the problem requires significant investment in capital and resources.The aim would be to extract only the relevant pieces of information, out of the hundreds of thousands of bits of information in a BIM, leading to the question of how to present it for successful interpretation.

This is where his second project, Back-office Planning Service (BoPS), comes in.BoPS would take the information and present it to the case officer.

Ricketts says that although it all works in theory, in reality, we’re not even at the proof of concept stage yet.At the moment, there are conversations happening with partners and stakeholders about how best to achieve the goal..