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The Centre for Advanced Knowledge Engineering An exciting new initiative that’s set to bring a significant number of important benefits to Downham Market and West Norfolk. An estimated £350m will be invested in the project, creating over 4,600 new permanent jobs and 1,500 temporary construction positions. “ “
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The Centre for Advanced Knowledge Engineering
An exciting new initiative that’s set to bring a significant number of important benefits to Downham Market and West Norfolk. An estimated £350m will be invested in the project, creating over 4,600 new permanent jobs and 1,500 temporary construction positions.
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£350m
Estimated project investment
4,600
New permanent jobs
1,500
Temporary construction jobs
Why Downham Market?Downham Market is equidistant between Cambridge and Norwich where there are already established technology-based business and education hubs, and has good access to London and airports.
Who is funding this project?Aventa Capital Partners Limited is an investment management firm with a track record for creating transformational and long term sustainable infrastructure projects.
When will it be ready?Outline planning permission is extant and in conjunction with our partners the Centre’s design and planning is already underway. Construction is scheduled to start in Q4 2016. The Institute of Data Science and its campus infrastructure will be followed by a phased build out of the Centre’s commercial space. We expect the educational centre will be finished in Q3 2017 and will be able to receive its first intake of students in Q2 2018.
What are the next steps?Following our initial internal design and planning workshops, engagement with our stakeholders, partners and communities is paramount to ensuring the success of the site.
Why is it important?It will bring a number of important benefits to Downham Market and the surrounding area:
World-class facility of global importance
Much improved educational opportunities
for the region’s young people
Boost to the economy as more businesses relocate here
Greater job opportunities and aspirations
for the region’s young people
Improvements to infrastructure
Raise the profile of Downham Market as a
destination for business and leisure
The Centre will include supporting infrastructure to complement its campus feel such as a hotel and international conference centre, halls of residence, restaurant and leisure facilities. The commercial zone will incorporate 10-12 flagship buildings covering 120,000m2 to be completed over a phased three year build programme. The site would also benefit from enhanced transport links.
It will be the first bespoke facility of its kind in Europe and will be built on the site of the old RAF base at Downham Market. Included in the development will be a commercially supported Institute of Data Science as well as office and research premises for companies looking to expand, relocate or establish a base in the UK and an educational facility in partnership with leading regional colleges and universities.
What is the Centre for Advanced Knowledge Engineering?
www.aventacapital.co.uk
What is Big Data?Big Data, knowledge engineering and cyber security are truly 21st Century phenomena in which the UK has established Itself as a world leader.
Big Data is a collection of data sets so large and complex that it becomes difficult to process using traditional database management tools or data processing applications. Managing and exploiting a single large set of related data, as compared to separate smaller sets with the same total amount of data, allows correlations to be found for applications such as spotting business trends, determining quality of research and prevention of diseases.
Whilst ‘structured’ data is more commonly known and is that which already exists in most databases, ‘unstructured’ data research is the key driver for this project. Currently around 80% of all data is unstructured which is made up of not only pure text, but also digital video and voice activity created by social media feeds, SMS, blogs, tweets, images, emails and internet content.
What is knowledge engineering?Knowledge engineering is a software engineering discipline that involves integrating knowledge into computer systems in order to solve complex problems normally requiring a high level of human expertise. It is used in many computer science domains such as artificial intelligence, including databases, data mining, expert systems, decision support systems and geographic information systems and more recently cyber security.
Contact details :
John Beer
Director 07899 756021
Peter Twist
Director 07717 510446
Peter Thomas
Director 07554 007658
www.aventacapital.co.uk
