Arcadis has been award £50,000 in funding from Innovate UK, as part of funding for business-led innovation in response to global disruption.
Arcadis has been award £50,000 in funding from Innovate UK, as part of funding for business-led innovation in response to global disruption. The project aims to provide advice on how public and private sector entities can safely return to work avoiding transmission of the Coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2).
The focus will be on multiple mitigations to avoid transmission of the SARS-CoV-2 virus including Scientifically Managed Accurate Rapid and Targeted (SMART) disinfection of high touch point surfaces. The project will evaluate transmission routes and a range of mitigation measures for multiple exposure scenarios.
The team includes environmental scientists with microbial molecular biology expertise, risk assessment specialists, two academic virologists from Liverpool and Edinburgh Universities, as well as Arcadis industrial hygiene and disinfectant product stewardship experts.
Arcadis’s expertise in this area comes partly from providing detailed technical support to the United Nations on how to manage coronavirus in developing countries, via the Shelter program.
Dr. Ian Ross, Senior Technical Director, Arcadis said: “This important project will assist with restarting the UK economy and we are proud to have been granted funding from Innovate UK in response to the current global disruption.”
