The Intrinsic Spring Blog

CITU’s  purpose is to create the most impactful places on the planet. Citu is an industry-leading, UK-based place maker, with a purpose to tackle the biggest challenge of our generation – The Climate Crisis. Their objective is to create beautiful places, with high-performance buildings, where people can lead a happy low carbon life. They believe in redefining urban living through innovation and sustainability. CITU are a purposeful and responsible team of over 120 passionate and driven professionals wanting to play a leading part in positive, impactful change across our places and cities. They are completely committed to the work they are doing but their long-term intention is to create a national, then global ripple effect, which others simply can’t ignore.     CITU’s journey began with a vision

Faradion was started in 2011, by Dr Jerry Barker, Dr Chris Wright and Ashwin Kumaraswamy, to develop and bring to market sodium-ion technology. It has developed a strategic, wide-reaching and extensive IP portfolio, comprising 21 patent families covering Na-ion technology. Faradion was founded on the premise that sodium-ion batteries are cheaper and safer than lithium-ion, with a higher energy density and a wider operating temperature range than other batteries. With this combination of cost, safety and performance Faradion’s sodium-ion batteries are now being manufactured by our licensees and partners to demonstrate the benefits of the technology in real-world applications. Sodium-ion batteries are recognised as an emergent technology and a key part of the solution for cheaper, cleaner energy provision.  Although Faradion’s sodium-ion batteries work in