Facilities
Facilities
We have a wide range of specialist facilities, both on and off campus.
On-campus Facilities
There are too many facilities to list here but some highlights are:
- Smart Grid Lab - unique facilities that enable investigation of future energy systems
- Urban Sciences Building - a revolutionary 'building as a lab' with more than 4000 sensors and experimental building services
- 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 in partnership with Northumbrian Water Group
- Blyth Marine Station including the Emerson Cavitation Tunnel
- Dove Marine Laboratory
- NU Farms - commercially run farms that support research, teaching and engagement
- 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.
