AMUM 2004

Conference Venue

NPL is the United Kingdom's national standards laboratory, an internationally respected and independent centre of excellence in research, development and knowledge transfer in measurement and materials science.

For more than a century we have developed and maintained the nation's primary measurement standards - the heart of an infrastructure designed to ensure accuracy, consistency and innovation in physical measurement.

NPL's new state-of-the-art laboratory is currently being constructed on our existing site in Teddington, funded under PFI (Private Finance Initiative). It will eventually provide 36,000 m² of scientific laboratories, engineering workshops, offices, meeting rooms, library and other supporting facilities arranged over sixteen interlinking modules.

Special attention is being paid to high environmental stability, low vibration and minimising magnetic and electromagnetic fields. This will allow the most advanced standards to be realised, many exploiting effects at the atomic level.

The scientific areas are flexibly designed to meet NPL's demanding metrology requirements well into the next century. Co-location of all services within one building will increase NPL's efficiency, enabling us to provide improved services

Website: www.npl.co.uk