QUB Knowledge Transfer Partnerships - KTP

🏆 Vote for Queen’s | The Art of Successful Collaboration | KTP Golden Awards

For nearly four decades, collaboration has been at the heart of Queen's University Belfast, shaping innovation, driving growth, and changing lives.

Through KTP, we have embedded our world-leading academic expertise directly into local companies, helping businesses discover new ways to innovate, solve real-world challenges, grow their capabilities, and create jobs.

Together with our partners, academics and associates, we’ve:
🔹 Helped 400+ organisations turn bold ideas into lasting impact
🔹 Supported over 500 KTP Associates on transformative career journeys
🔹 Driven more than £300M in economic impact in Northern Ireland
🔹 Embedded innovation in sectors from life sciences to digital technologies and creative industries across the UK

From the red London bus to advanced medical technologies, aerospace interiors to the guitars of world-famous musicians, the fingerprints of our Knowledge Transfer Partnerships are everywhere.

Queen’s is shortlisted for the ‘Art of Successful Collaboration’ Award at the national Golden Awards, celebrating 50 years of UK innovation.

Every Associate, academic, and partner company has played a role in this story and your vote can ensure their impact receives the recognition it deserves.

🗳️ Vote before 5pm, Friday 17 October 2025:
👉 https://grantplatform.ktp-uk.org/auth/login

🏆 Vote for Queen’s | Driving Innovation for the Future | KTP Golden Awards

From rural Toomebridge to global recognition, this is innovation built on solid foundations.

Through two decades of visionary collaboration with , has redefined what’s possible for civil engineering infrastructure and revolutionised bridge design with the award-winning FlexiArch system.

By combining advanced research with real-world application to deliver sustainable, resilient infrastructure.

At the heart of much of this success is Abhey Gupta, the first KTP Associate in 2004 and now Operations/Commercial Director of Macrete.

Through it's partnerships with Queen's, Macrete has achieved:
🔹 Launch of the FlexiArch bridge system, now licensed internationally
🔹 Development of low-energy, sustainable concretes reducing CO2 by 50%
🔹 100% staff retention, reflecting a culture of excellence and innovation
🔹 A staggering increase in gross profit from 0.6% to 21.5%
🔹 55% revenue growth from £14.75M to £22.80M (2017–2023)
🔹 A £12M contract with HS2 and in part due to the high quality and low carbon concrete solutions offered

This partnership is now shortlisted for the ‘Driving Innovation for the Future’ Award at the national KTP Golden Awards, celebrating 50 years of UK-wide innovation.

It’s a story of vision, leadership and long-term impact and your vote could help Abhey Gupta, Professor Su Taylor, and all the academics and Associates that are part of this incredible story, to get the recognition they deserve.

🗳️ Vote before 5pm, Friday 17 October 2025:
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We’re delighted to welcome Soniya Jadhav to at . 👏

Soniya is leading a Knowledge Transfer Partnership with .contracts, based in Omagh.

Production of construction materials is a high carbon activity, cement and concrete alone account for roughly 8% of global CO₂ emissions, with embodied carbon making up about 11–28% of a building’s total lifecycle footprint.

Soniya, a MSc graduate in Construction Project Management from Queen’s, is working with Fox Contracts and academics from the to develop innovative methods to accurately track and report whole life carbon emissions across all of the company’s operations and projects, create a more carbon-efficient supply chain and strengthen their sustainability practices.

“I’m excited to collaborate with local suppliers and subcontractors to map high carbon materials, identify low carbon and circular alternatives, and embed tracking systems throughout the supply chain to help deliver genuinely low carbon construction outcomes.”, says Soniya.

Although it’s early days for this KTP, we’re looking forward to seeing Soniya’s impact at Fox Contracts.