The campus will be a hub for innovation, business and education. It unites the University of Southampton and Lloyd’s Register in a partnership focusing on marine engineering and engineering sciences.
Professor Don Nutbeam, vice-chancellor of the University of Southampton, said: “Our proven track-record includes collaborating with Lloyd’s Register and other industrial partners to make ships more environmentally friendly and developing autonomous vehicles and systems to explore our oceans and revolutionise aircraft design, all of which can provide British businesses with innovative technologies and help transform the UK economy.”
The campus is home to the University’s Faculty of Engineering and the Environment and Southampton Marine and Maritime Institute and also Lloyd’s Register’s Global Technology Centre. When fully completed, the campus will host world-class research infrastructure including an anechoic wind chamber, advanced fluid dynamics experimental facilities, which will be used across a range of disciplines including civil engineering and aerospace, and a 140m towing tank that will provide detailed research on new maritime technologies.
The facilities will, in due course, be complemented by a National Infrastructure Laboratory, funded by the Government and industry under the UK Collaboration for Research in Infrastructure & Cities (UKCRIC) programme.
