NMITE’s £7m Centre for Advanced Timber Technology (CATT) in Hereford incorporates advanced timber technologies into its build, and has created the necessary conditions for research, innovation and industry-led education of students, enabled by Industry 4.0 digitisation.
As a ‘living lab’, CATT will collect data that will be made available to NMITE students to inform teaching and learning. NMITE’s objective is to stimulate cooperation across construction, from the client to the warranty provider and from seed to building, demonstrating the rewards of a career in timber construction.
Architect, Bond Bryan left as many services as possible exposed within the building to allow students to clearly see the different elements of a building’s inner workings and how it is constructed.
Sensors can be found throughout the building to monitor thermal, acoustic and structural performance, with feedback loops to digital models to carry out performance evaluation.
The data from the Living Lab will be collected, collated and shared with the wider industry over time to help inform further innovation in timber engineering.
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