International Advanced Manufacturing Park

This article is about a business park in Sunderland. For other uses, see Advanced Manufacturing Park.
International Advanced Manufacturing Park
IndustryManufacturing, research and development
Headquarters
Washington, Tyne and Wear
,
United Kingdom
Websiteiampnortheast.co.uk

The International Advanced Manufacturing Park is a British business park located in the City of Sunderland, Tyne and Wear. The site is located next to Nissan Motor Manufacturing UK, the UK's second largest car manufacturing site.[1] It is a development hub for manufacturing in the region and is a joint venture between Sunderland City Council and South Tyneside Council.[2] The concept for this development was influenced by the previous success of the Advanced Manufacturing Park (AMP) in Rotherham.[citation needed]

The International Advanced Manufacturing Park development is designated as an Enterprise Zone and is split into two phases; phase one is 125 acres (51 ha) acres of land with 1.68 million square feet (156×10^3 m2) of building area attracting more than £150 million of investment; phase two is an additional 245 acres (99 ha) of land.[3] Henry Boot plc is a development partner for the project.[4] The scheme intends to create 7000 jobs and work started in 2018.[5]

The park is the site of the closed NHS Nightingale Hospital NE, a field hospital built to cater for COVID-19 patients in the North East, but never used.

Centre of Excellence for Sustainable Advanced Manufacturing

Unit 5 of phase one the complex is known as the Centre of Excellence for Sustainable Advanced Manufacturing and was built in 2019.[6][7] CESAM is a £54.5 million joint venture between North East Automotive Alliance, industry figures and universities including Sunderland University.[8][9] The centre will work with companies as a research and development hub to help improve and innovate their digital and manufacturing processes.[10]

The building is 126,279 sq. ft and has 300 car parking spaces.[11] The project took 37 weeks to build.[11]

NHS Nightingale Hospital NE

Main article: NHS Nightingale Hospital North East
NHS Nightingale North East

In 2020, as part of the UK's response to the COVID-19 pandemic a number of NHS COVID-19 critical care hospitals needed to be set up and the IAMP's Centre of Excellence for Sustainable Advanced Manufacturing was selected as the location of the North East region's NHS Nightingale Hospital.

The site will have 460 beds available with the building divided into 16 wards.[12] It will be operated by Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.[13] The hospital has been prepared by the British Armed forces working with the local NHS Trusts.[14] County Durham MP Richard Holden said when announcing the hospital on 10 April that is expected to be open for patients in the following two weeks.[13]

Location

The site is located just off the A19 road, next to the Nissan Motor Manufacturing UK car plant. Discussions have taken place with Nexus to assess the possibility of the extending the Tyne and Wear Metro to the business park which currently terminates at the South Hylton Metro Station on the other side of the River Wear.[5]

References

  1. ^ "Output falls at Nissan in Sunderland by more than 20 per cent". ITV News. 30 January 2020. Retrieved 11 April 2020.
  2. ^ "International Advanced Manufacturing Park (IAMP) - Sunderland City Council". Sunderland City Council. Retrieved 11 April 2020.
  3. ^ "Development is a game-changer". The Evening Chronicle. 11 October 2019. Retrieved 11 April 2020.
  4. ^ "IAMP". Henry Boot Developments. Retrieved 11 April 2020.
  5. ^ a b "Metro could be extended to new 7,000-worker business park". The Evening Chronicle. 23 March 2020. Retrieved 11 April 2020.
  6. ^ "CESAM takes 126,279 sq ft at IAMP". IAMP North East. Retrieved 11 April 2020.
  7. ^ "IAMP One". IAMP North East. Retrieved 11 April 2020.
  8. ^ "New advanced manufacturing research centre set to be built at International Advanced Manufacturing Park in Sunderland". MTDMFG. 17 January 2019. Retrieved 11 April 2020.
  9. ^ "Applied digital technologies in North East advanced manufacturing" (PDF). North East Local Enterprise Partnership. November 2018. Retrieved 11 April 2020.
  10. ^ "University backed bid for £33million to lead way in manufacturing innovation". University of Sunderland. 21 March 2019. Retrieved 11 April 2020.
  11. ^ a b "CESAM, Sunderland". GMI Construction. Retrieved 11 April 2020.
  12. ^ "Birmingham Nightingale hospital 'operational'". BBC News. 10 April 2020. Retrieved 11 April 2020.
  13. ^ a b Lindsay, Kali (10 April 2020). "14 pictures of the new Nightingale hospital due to open in the North East". nechronicle. Retrieved 11 April 2020.
  14. ^ "This is when new 460-bed Nightingale Hospital North East will open near Nissan plant". Shields Gazette. 10 April 2020. Retrieved 11 April 2020.

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