Construction quantity surveyor
Start or continue your career as a construction quantity surveyor in the construction and property industry, gaining a degree and practical skills while you work.
Tim Breikin
Tim started his academic career in the UK as a Lecturer at the University of Manchester, in February 2004. Prior to that appointment he had nine years of research experience on the modelling, control, performance monitoring and optimisation of industrial systems.
MAZAK High Speed Machining Centre
The MAZAK FJV25 high speed machining centre is used to test coated tools under realistic manufacturing conditions
Characterization of PVD hard coatings
Characterization of PVD hard coatings
Low Pressure Plasma Nitriding
The project involved the development of a nitriding process to work at low pressures, achieving high plasma densities and degree of activation of nitrogen
Fundamentals and Applications of HIPIMS EPSRC Grant
Understanding the fundamentals of HIPIMS plasma
Coating Substrate Adhesion Enhancement
The surface of metallic substrate is engineered by plasma cleaning to remove contamination and metal ion implantation to enhance wetting of the subsequent coating layer
Innovative construction materials
Our research in this area is designed to enable us to advise on waste reuse, extra durability and extended life of resources and innovation
PVD coating by HIPIMS
We have comprehensive expertise in HIPIMS pretreatment and coating technology. Our deposition systems are available for pilot industrial scale production, process development, test of concept and fundamental research.
Materials modelling and complex flows
All the work undertaken for our clients includes developing new methods to deal with problems which currently lie outside the scope of proprietary software and simulating complex materials and systems using our extant methods