DNV Spadeadam
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Spadeadam Research and Testing contributes to a safer world by improving understanding of major hazards across industries.
For over 40 years, Spadeadam has conducted full scale testing to assess the consequences of major hazards and their effects on people and properties. The results of which have been used to develop products, protect people and infrastructure from both accidental and deliberate threats.
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Research and testing
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Supported by a highly experienced team, DNV can facilitate the testing of components, products, techniques and processes from design through to analysis and recommendations
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Security
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Our services range from testing ballistic resistant material against small arms to testing large building components against the blast and fragmentation generated by a car bombs – and everything in between
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Courses offer delegates the chance to experience fires, dispersion and explosion first hand whilst developing their knowledge of the research and theory behind them.
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Project examples
Making the safety case
DNV's Spadeadam is involved as partner in safety research that focus on GBP10 million (m) H21 Network Innovation Competition (NIC) initiative
Hy4Heat programme
DNV leads a partnership to review purity and colourant for the UK Government’s Hy4Heat programme
Further reading
DNV commission world's largest industrial explosion chamber at Spadeadam Research and Testing
Low carbon solutions research
The facility at Spadeadam in Cumbria, UK is increasingly being used to conduct research into low carbon technologies.
Heating homes with hydrogen: proving the safety case
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Laboratories and test facilities
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