UKIZ/CAPABILITY
Where can I get this done?
Britain can already do more than it can find.
Labs, testing and certification, specialist equipment, prototyping, pilot production, manufacturing capability and research compute — held as records with a link to the organisation's own evidence, and a date we last checked it.
Ask in your own words
Nine families of capability
Labs and research facilities
Physical laboratory space and specialist research environments open to external users.
“Where can I do this experiment?”
Testing and certification
Accredited and specialist testing, qualification and route-to-approval support.
“Who can test and certify this so it is allowed to exist?”
Specialist equipment
Named instruments and rigs an external organisation can book or access.
“Where is the machine I cannot afford to buy?”
Prototyping
Making the first one: design, fabrication and iteration support.
“Where do I build the first version of this?”
Pilot production
Between prototype and factory: small-batch, scale-up and process proving.
“Where do I make a hundred before I commit to a factory?”
Advanced manufacturing capability
Production-grade capability available to external partners and supply chains.
“Who in Britain can actually manufacture this at volume?”
Research infrastructure, HPC and compute
Computation, data infrastructure and secure environments for research and industry.
“Where do I get the compute or the data environment?”
Innovation workspace with technical capability
Space that comes with something technical attached — not desks alone.
“Where can my team sit next to the kit?”
Technical expertise and access programmes
Routes in: funded access schemes, technical teams and collaboration programmes.
“How do I actually get access, and who pays?”
What UKIZ does not hold
UKIZ never records availability, day rates or booking slots. Capability is a durable fact about a place; availability is a conversation with the organisation. Every record here tells you who to ask.