International eco-system monitoring company Quanterra Systems, which has seen significant growth over the last three years, is set to take new space at Exeter Science Park.
The company, which is a spin out from the University of Exeter, offers ecosystem monitoring as a service. Its work, which is delivered in the UK, USA, Uganda and Brazil, involves monitoring carbon flows between ecosystems and atmosphere for nature-based solutions, regenerative agriculture and ecosystem science projects.
And it is taking advantage of the flexible lab and office space at Exeter Science Park, moving from its existing facility in the net zero George Parker Bidder building, to a space which is almost 50% bigger.
Beccy Mitchell, chief executive of Quanterra Systems, said: “We set up in 2021 and we’ve now grown to have nine employees in total and we have definitely outgrown the space. We also anticipate growing fairly substantially over the next five to 10 years.
“To be in a position where we can move from one location to another within the Science Park works very well for us because we don’t know when that growth is going to happen. So having that kind of flexibility of options is very helpful.”
Quanterra Systems focuses on monitoring carbon flows from the ecosystem to the broader atmosphere and vice versa and using data to understand whether the flows of carbon are improved by taking different approaches to farming. The company has a number of its systems deployed across 12 different states in the USA and a variety here in the UK.
Beccy added that the location of their business was key when they were searching for office and lab space.
She said: “We needed to be in a position where we could have something that coupled being an office with also being more like a workshop/lab space. In terms of location, we wanted to be really accessible for the city centre, university, airport and the motorway and the Science Park was perfect for that.
“We’re an environmental monitoring business and that means that quite a lot of our employees and team feel quite passionately about the environment and spend a lot of their leisure time doing things in the natural world. Being close to the moors, being close to the sea, being in a position where we can access other places, including big cities quite readily is very important.”
Jason Buck, senior business development manager, said: “At Exeter Science Park we have organisations at varying stages of their lifecycles, from those who are going through rapid growth to others who are scaling up and more mature companies looking for longer term leases and larger space. With this in mind we ensure that we offer flexible leases, enabling companies and organisations to grow and evolve with us.
“It’s been great to see the growth of the Quanterra team as they continue to deliver this environmentally important work.”
