The International Advanced Manufacturing Park is a British business park located in the
City of Sunderland
The City of Sunderland () is a metropolitan borough with city status in the metropolitan county of Tyne and Wear, North East England. It is named after its largest settlement, Sunderland, spanning a far larger area, including nearby towns i ...
, Tyne and Wear. The site is located next to
Nissan Motor Manufacturing UK, the UK's second largest car manufacturing site. It is a development hub for manufacturing in the region and is a joint venture between
Sunderland City Council and
South Tyneside Council. The concept for this development was influenced by the previous success of the
Advanced Manufacturing Park (AMP) in Rotherham.
The International Advanced Manufacturing Park development is designated as an
Enterprise Zone and is split into two phases; phase one is acres of land with of building area attracting more than £150 million of investment; phase two is an additional of land.
Henry Boot plc is a development partner for the project.
The scheme intends to create 7000 jobs and work started in 2018.
The park is currently being used as the site of
NHS Nightingale Hospital NE
The NHS Nightingale Hospital North East was one of the temporary NHS Nightingale Hospitals set up by NHS England to help to deal with the COVID-19 pandemic. It was constructed inside the Centre of Excellence for Sustainable Advanced Manufactur ...
, a field hospital catering for
COVID-19
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is a contagious disease caused by a virus, the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). The first known case was identified in Wuhan, China, in December 2019. The disease quickl ...
patients in the North East.
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. CESAM is a £54.5 million joint venture between North East Automotive Alliance, industry figures and universities including
Sunderland University. The centre will work with companies as a
research and development
Research and development (R&D or R+D), known in Europe as research and technological development (RTD), is the set of innovative activities undertaken by corporations or governments in developing new services or products, and improving existi ...
hub to help improve and innovate their digital and manufacturing processes.
The building is 126,279 sq. ft and has 300 car parking spaces.
The project took 37 weeks to build.
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NHS Nightingale Hospital NE
In 2020, as part of the UK's response to the COVID-19 pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic, also known as the coronavirus pandemic, is an ongoing global pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). The novel virus was first identified ...
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. It will be operated by Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.[
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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.[
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References
External links
IAMP North East
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Companies based in the City of Sunderland
Economy of the City of Sunderland
Business parks of England
Buildings and structures completed in 2019