About Us

The Network is concerned with the whole lifecycle of the motor vehicle from raw materials, to design, assembly of components, manufacture, disassembly, recycling and reuse of components and materials.

Our team (l-r): Prof Allan Hutchinson, Head of SVEC; Jim Campbell, Automotive Advisor; Dr Pat Winfield, DRIVENet coordinator; Ryan Wood, PhD Student; Ryan McCurdy, PhD student; Max Pemberton, external consultant; Dr Shaun Savage, Research Fellow.		It is the forum through which vehicle designers and manufacturers, component suppliers, recycling companies, Independent Research Organisations and environmental agencies can interact and inform the future direction of DRIVENet and the Sustainable Vehicle Engineering Centre (SVEC), at Oxford Brookes University. More information on SVEC can be viewed at http://tech.brookes.ac.uk/svec.

DRIVENet has a three-fold approach: To look at recycling and reuse of materials from the current vehicle parc To develop the design and technologies necessary for vehicles of the future To inform DRIVENet members, Government and EU legislators and disseminate information to the industry and the public
Since its creation in 2004, the Network has consolidated its position as an authority on the design for recycling and sustainability in the automotive sector. It has become a respected organisation that is able to represent the needs of its members, develop research programmes and deliver research and consultancy on these issues.

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