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Science Central is Newcastle’s £350 million
flagship project bringing together academia,
the public sector, communities, business and
industry. A partnership between Newcastle
University and Newcastle City Council, the
24-acre site has been at Newcastle’s industrial
heart for 200 years - originally as a colliery,
and later the production centre for Newcastle
Brown Ale.
Science Central is attracting key industry partners including
Siemens, Red Hat, Microsoft, Northern Powergrid and
Northumbrian Water. Legal & General Capital praised the
partners’ vision for urban innovation and announced a £100
million investment in the site to create 200,000 sq. ft. of Grade
A office space and up to 2,000 jobs. The landmark building The
Core opened in November 2014 and is full to capacity, while
Newcastle University delivered the first research labs in The Key
which opened in February 2016.
Science Central will trial innovative technologies that will benefit
not just the region but society as a whole. It will house three
national research centres - the £20 million National Centre for
Energy Systems Integration, the £40 million National Centre for
Ageing Science and Innovation and the £30 million National
Institute for Smart Data Innovation.
Also, Newcastle University’s £58 million Urban Sciences
Building on the site will open in 2017, housing world-class
computing science, and an urban observatory - where real time
data will be analysed to improve our understanding of the urban
interactions between energy, water, transport, waste and digital
control systems.
Science Central will trial innovative technologies that will
benefit not just the region but society as a whole
Innovative technologies and
national research centres
Case Study: Urban and Community Transformation
£20M
£30M
£40M
Investment in new national research centres
National Centre for Energy
Systems Integration
National Centre for Ageing
Science and Innovation
National Institute for Smart
Data Innovation
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