National Centre for Power & Propulsion (Whittle Lab)

The newly established Whittle Laboratory at Cambridge is designed as an Integrated Technology Accelerator, offering a boundary-less environment for a distinguished mix of researchers, students, companies, and entrepreneurs known for their excellence in science, engineering, and innovation. United by their vision of achieving a zero-carbon future in aviation, they have embraced a revolutionary approach that significantly shortens technology development cycles from years to mere weeks. This is achieved by integrating various disciplines to collaboratively tackle a single challenge, thereby overcoming complex system barriers and substantially reducing the time to deliver solutions. Such a strategy holds the promise of halving the timeline for attaining zero carbon flight and enables rapid scaling up of effective solutions.

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We provided confidence in the utilisation of the proposed lab space, architecture and equipment layout by working closely with the university engineering department to produce plans of testing equipment, control rooms and high speed/temp mechanical pipework.  

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Client: University of Cambridge Engineering Department

Collaborators: JG Consulting, Project Design Team Committee

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2022 - Cambridge

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Images, Grimshaw Architects, University of Cambridge & Element