Lancaster University - InfoLab21
Contact Details: |
Steve Riches, Director of InfoLab21 Knowledge Business Centre |
Type of Project: |
New build on a new site at the edge of Lancaster University campus. InfoLab21 is part of the Lancaster University campus, located approximately 3 miles south of the city centre of Lancaster. The University sought to bring together the disciplines of Communication Systems and Computing in one building and to create a new technology transfer department to work alongside them, the Knowledge Business Centre, in order to encourage the commercial exploitation of research. |
Start/End Date: |
The building was initiated in 2003; completed in September 2004 and was officially opened, by Patricia Hewitt, then Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, on 2nd February 2005. |
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