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Engine Shed to shut after 13 years
Engine Shed will be closing its doors in December with the team behind the “innovation hub” set to run the Bristol Innovations Zone at the new Temple Quarter Enterprise Campus.
It will mean moving out of the historic building that was designed by Brunel and which during the 1990s was the Exploratory science centre.
Engine Shed has used the building next to Temple Meads as workspaces, meeting rooms and an event space, as well as the home of the SETsquared Bristol incubator.
Engine Shed was founded in 2013 as an “innovation hub” – photo: Engine Shed
Engine Shed founder, Nick Sturge, said: “The ecosystem, and therefore the number and strength of the actors within it, has grown significantly since 2013 and I’m super proud that Engine Shed, and the team behind and within it, has played a part in that growth and the collaborative spirit that has created the right environment for the next stage of Engine Shed’s journey.
“While part of that will rest in the sidings for a while, I am so pleased that Bristol Innovations Zone, in the new TQEC building, will pick up the momentum that Engine Shed helped create.”
The current Engine Shed team will be moving to the new Enterprise Campus the other side of Temple Meads – photo: Martin Booth
Former Engine Shed director, Marty Reid, now director of innovation, research & enterprise at the University of Bristol, added: “Leading Engine Shed showed me just how deeply it resonates across Bristol’s business and civic communities…
“The new academic building will allow the growth, innovation and inclusion initiatives started at Engine Shed to expand, strengthen and become even more integrated with the university’s wider activities.”
Main photo: Martin Booth
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