Loughborough University have created new test facilities to develop high performance insulation materials and façade systems for improved building energy performance. Innovative building envelope systems can help to reduce building energy loads and generate electricity and heat. Non-concentrating solar thermal collectors are generally available in two forms, flat plate or evacuated tube.

Recently, a third configuration, the evacuated flat plate, has attracted interest due to the enhanced...

NEaar is dedicated to providing world class amino acid racemization analysis, primarily as a tool for geochronology but also to investigate biomolecular composition and stability.  It is the NERC-recognised facility for chiral amino acid analysis.

NEaar has three main scientific objectives: 

• to continue actively pioneering analytical advances in amino acid research;
• to welcome visiting researchers and students, giving them the opportunity to learn the technique and analyse their own samples...

MFM is a CAV testbed based in the West Midlands, part of the "CAM Testbed UK" group of facilities. 

Details on the testbed can be found at https://midlandsfuturemobility.co.uk/

The goals of the testbed are to support CAV/CAM developers to cement the UK as one of the best places in the world to develop CAV technologies, addressing and capturing a reported £62Bn market for the UK.

A report by the Automotive Council (known as "GRAVITAS") highlighted 5 years ago the need for enhancement of our...

UH HPC provides high-performance computing facilities to research staff and students at UH and to a community of collaborators nationally and internationally, including externally funded consortia such as LOFAR-UK and WEAVE. It aims to facilitate both medium-scale HPC requirements (with around 6,000 compute cores) and high-throughput data processing (with around 3 PB of attached fast storage). Applications include computational fluid dynamics, artificial intelligence and machine learning, 'big...

Falmouth's Academy of Innovation and Research (AIR) is the home of our Design Thinking Lab, an infrastructure that supports design thinking across the creative industries. Falmouth University's 2030 Strategy "Doing It For Real" includes the ambition to become a market leader for creative industries and entrepreneurship, capitalising on our considerable assets in innovation-led research and business incubation. Our Design Thinking Lab will help us achieve this goal, facilitating the use of Design...

The research infrastructure is housed within the Birmingham Centre for Energy Storage (BCES) at the University of Birmingham. The focus of the assets and equipments is the formulation and characterization of new materials for thermal and thermochemical energy conversion and storage, specifically on composite phase change materials (cPCM), composite thermochemical materials (cTCM) and hybridization of cPCM and cTCM, covering a temperature range from extremely low temperature of -196oC  up to very...

What it does: based in Swindon, York, Cambridge and Portsmouth, the teams undertake analytical field survey extensive landscape survey. We apply close observation, critical analysis and accurate measurement based on wide experience to support carefully considered interpretations. By doing this we help people appreciate the richness of place, make the obscure clear and encourage all to appreciate, value and protect historic places. We work with relatively small complexes of earthworks and ruined...

The Thermal Energy Storage Materials Characterisation and Systems Testing Lab facilities at Loughborough enable investigations into alternative energy storage media, materials and properties that will be more robust and suitable for expected changes in both supply and demand. Demand for energy storage in a low carbon energy industry has grown, and energy predictability reduced, as a result of the electrical generation mix evolving to accommodate more wind and solar. The facilities are used in a...

Surface Engineering Lab equipped with 8 off magnetron sputter deposition systems for the production of thin films of metals, alloys, ceramics, etc on metal, glass, plastic and nanoparticulates. Expertise includes process development, production and testing of photocatalytic materials, functionalisation of nanoparticulates, antimicrobial coatings. Equipment scales from lab scale to pilot production scale. Tribiology testing lab for friction/wear tests.

Manchester Fuel Cell Innovation Centre...

Monsoon2 delivers supercomputing infrastructure to enable collaboration between NERC and Met Office scientists.

Key Aims
The main aim of Monsoon2 is to enable easier collaboration between scientists based at the Met Office and those funded by the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) who are based in universities and research centres. It provides a common computing platform, post-processing capability, fast data link and access to data archives.

It also addresses two of the key...