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Knowledge Dock offers an array of specialist services, as well as key academic and professional staff for unlocking the potential of your organisation. These facilities have been specifically developed for empowering companies with easy access to specialised technologies – often highly expert technologies – which traditionally have been prohibitively expensive to obtain.

 

From rapid prototyping and advanced simulation technologies to advanced geo-information systems, give your company the cost-effective competitive edge by tapping into these highly professional facilities and the analytical expertise of the staff that run them.

 

Knowledge Dock’s wide variety of specialist facilities include:

 

Product Design Lab – a commercial product design consultancy that focuses on the research, design and development of new cutting-edge products.

 

Fabric, Print and Design Bureau – large format printing bureau dedicated to transforming creative visions into masterpieces.

 

Simlab – a specialist facility in the fields of simulation technologies, process improvement, animated modelling and customer demographic mapping.

 

Manufactured Aggregates Research Centre – Advanced research and testing facility for manufactured aggregates.

 

Centre for Geo-Information – a research centre focusing in all aspects of geo-information science, systems and engineering.

 

RIX Centre – an innovative new charity helping to improve the lives of people with learning disabilities and their families through the use of new media technologies.

 

SMARTlab – a Digital Media & Creative Technology Innovation Centre, operating as both a centre of excellence in art/technology research, and a new media R&D centre and incubator for emergent practices and products.

 

MAGIClab – a part of SMARTlab, this Multimedia & Games Innovation Centre specialises in game design, interaction and experience design, as well as in the digital arts.