Facilities Under Construction

We are already building our next generation of laboratories. The emphasis is on creating full scale, cross-sectoral systems demonstrations.

• Grid-Connected Anaerobic Digestion - harvesting methane from organic waste
• second generation energy storage test bed - expanding our current system
• Urban SUDS - a city-centre Sustainable Urban Drainage System
• Urban Sciences Building - scaling-up from The Key, USB is our next generation of setting up buildings as laboratories themselves

On-campus Facilities

There are too many facilities to list here but some highlights are:

• NEXUS - EPSRC National Facility for X-Ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy
• Smart Grid Lab - unique facilities that enable investigation of future energy systems
• The Key - a revolutionary 'building as a lab'
• Urban Observatory - the largest set of publicly available real time urban data in the UK
• Stu Brew - Europe's first student-run micro-brewery used to research and improve sustainable brewing practice

Off-campus Facilities

• BE:WISE - microbial sewage treatment scheme
• BIONICS - a full scale, instrumented infrastructure embankment
• Blyth Marine Station including the Emerson Cavitation Tunnel
• Dove Marine Laboratory
• Faculty Farms: Nafferton and Cockle Park
• R/V The Princess Royal

Great North Museum Specialist Collections

Our campus hosts the Great North Museum: Hancock where several of the University's collections are held including:

• Zoology
• Botany
• Palaeontology and Geology
• Archaeology
• Ethnography

There is also a library in the museum that includes the archives of the Natural History Society of Northumbria, and the University's Cowen Library.