Shaping Cloud captures carbon centre deal
MANCHESTER-based cloud computing expert Shaping Cloud has landed a contract from the Centre for Low Carbon Futures to design and build a new software system that will help businesses to reduce their carbon emissions.
The centre, which is part of the University of Sheffield, will allow businesses to follow best practice case studies curated by a Low Carbon Supply Chain research project.
For instance, a brewer could input the location of their barley and wheat sources and how it is transported, then add in details of the processes undertaken to turn the raw materials into beer.
Once the data is completed, the software would then calculate the carbon footprint for each stage of the process, identifying hotspots and then point the business to examples from case studies as to how they can cut their own emissions.
The University of Sheffield’s Professor Lenny Koh said: “We’re pleased to be working with Shaping Cloud to develop what we hope will be a truly useful tool for businesses, helping them to reduce their carbon footprint.”
Shaping Cloud’s Carlos Oliveira said: “We are very excited to be working with the team at the University of Sheffield to develop the new software tool.”
He added that the use of cloud-based technology meant that as future developments are added it will be updated automatically.
Oliveira set up Shaping Cloud in summer 2010. Current clients include Cottons Financial Planners, Alpha Kinetic, Joshua Brookes, Ramparts, Active Data Tools and TalentFeed.
