The Museum of Classical Archaeology is home to one of the finest surviving collections of plaster casts of the antique in the world. The Museum was founded in 1884 to house the Fitzwilliam Museum's growing collection of plaster casts - and is today a thriving University of Cambridge Museum, embedded within the Faculty of Classics, one of the leading university Classics departments in the UK. MOCA houses more than 15,000 objects. Many of them are historical replicas, but we also a large sherd...

The International Centre for Advanced Materials was set up by bp with a $100m investment in autumn 2012. Built upon a hub and spoke model this project brings together the strengths of bp, The University of Manchester, the University of Cambridge, Imperial College London and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, to enable the effective application of advanced materials to energy challenges. The three research themes are: Low Carbon Energy, which encompasses Hydrogen, Electrification...

The Energy and Bioproducts Research Institute (EBRI) facility at Aston Univeristy is a focus for innovation in biomass production and the utilisation for renewable power, heat, transport fuels, hydrogen and chemicals. Equipment such as X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy machine (XPS), a scanning electron microscope (SEM) and a Bioreactor Suite. are included in the EBRI capabities. EBRI now represents a UK, if not European, leading facility with a unique concentration of equipment needed for...

Promoting growth and acceleration in the development and exploitation of technologies for the energy market. The new Energy Centre at Thornton provides a flexible place where industry and academia come together to innovate, develop and demonstrate new intelligent energy technologies.

The facility seeks to promote growth and acceleration in the development and exploitation of technologies for the energy market, examples of technologies include:

• New types of photovoltaic solar cells
• Innova...

The Digital Humanities Lab at Exeter is a state of the art facility offering unique spaces, equipment and training for staff and students. A specialist team conducts and supports innovative Digital Humanities research, offers training and teaching, and undertakes the digital preservation and display of historic material and artefacts using advanced technologies.

Facilities include a visualisation and co-creation teaching suite, 3D makerspace lab, audio-visual studio and photographic studios.

The Quantum Computing and Simulation Hub (aka QCS Hub) is a collaboration between 17 UK universities and is one of four hubs within the UK National Quantum Technologies Programme.

Working with an extensive network of academic, industrial and governmental partners, we are focused on the critical research challenges for quantum computing, across a broad range of hardware and software disciplines.

As well as addressing the technical challenges in providing quantum computing and simulation at...

Energy House Laboratories consists for 4 laboratories focused on research in domestic energy consumption. This covers issues including, fabric performance, building physics, internal environments, digital (smart meters) and other related technical areas. This has focused on retrofit, but new investment will open this to include new build properties. The team look at the performance of systems, as well as the methodological issues of building performance.

EHL consist of 4 labs: the Salford...

What it does: we are the national lead on aerial investigation and mapping and set the standards for the professional, academic and volunteer sectors. We undertake, manage and provide expert advice on programmes of aerial reconnaissance and air photo interpretation in order to discover, record, characterise and monitor archaeological sites, historic buildings, and landscapes. We use sources including historic and modern aerial photographs, satellite imagery and airborne laser scanning data...

The Thermo-Catalytic Reforming (TCR®) demonstrator at the Tyseley Energy Park (TEP), Birmingham, converts bio-waste to energy in an innovative and effective way. The technology, developed by Fraunhofer UMSICHT in Germany, converts waste biomass such as sludge, sewage and solid waste to fuels. The TEP draws together a range of different energy technologies to act as an energy and waste hub for the city of Birmingham, showing how innovative low-carbon energy technologies can be used to support...

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...