A Visit to the Cranfield Impact Centre

Recently, we visited the Cranfield Impact Centre as part of an ongoing client project where we’re working as design partners. The day combined a productive project meeting with a guided tour of the facility, offering valuable insight into the Centre’s capabilities and future opportunities for collaboration.



The Cranfield Impact Centre, based at Cranfield University, is a specialist facility focused on impact testing and safety engineering. It supports a wide range of industries through advanced static and dynamic testing, helping organisations validate designs, meet safety standards and bring products to market with confidence. The Centre is internationally recognised for its technical expertise, including FIA-approved crash testing, making it a critical resource for safety-critical and performance-led projects.

Our meeting took place within this highly technical environment, which added real value to the discussion. Being surrounded by real-world testing facilities encouraged focused, outcome-driven conversations around the next stages of the project.



Following the meeting, we toured the Impact Centre’s testing facilities, seeing the depth of

engineering expertise and precision behind each test was both impressive and inspiring, we were even lucky enough to see material testing in action, sparking ideas for how similar approaches could support future projects and clients.



Overall, the visit reinforced the importance of combining strong design thinking with rigorous testing and validation. We left with clear project direction, fresh inspiration and a deeper appreciation for how facilities like the Cranfield Impact Centre help turn innovative ideas into safe, real-world solutions.