The Lab in numbers

Impact

A live picture of the Lab's scale and reach, drawn straight from the registers. These figures are not maintained by hand: they are what the Lab actually holds, today.

Live from the registers

The scale of
the Lab

63
Spaces

Physical environments across the Marylebone campus, from workshops to the immersive IEL.

111
Technologies

Machines and advanced technologies, every one there to be learned and put to work.

1,130
Materials in the library

A materials library open to everyone on campus to touch, test, and specify.

1
People who have seen the Lab

People who have been through the Lab — named visitors and group tours alike, counted from real check-ins.

The efficiency ledger

The numbers
the Lab runs on

These are the measures a Lab is judged by — read live from the App, never typed by hand. Partner organisations to date: 14.

Qualifications awarded

Every technology mastered is an earned qualification, not a sign-off — the measure of how far capability has spread.

Comes online as the App records attestations across the learning spine.
Active members

The community measured by real activity in the Lab, never by a mailing list.

Comes online when the community register opens a public count.
Bookings and attendance

How deeply each space and technology is actually used — booked, attended, put to work.

Comes online with native booking (Phase 2).
Courses per team member

What a small team delivers when the App carries the load — the efficiency of the model.

Comes online when courses and team size are both live.
Admin hours per event

The hours an event takes to run, before the App and after — the efficiency it buys back.

Comes online when event automation logs the before and after.
14
Partnerships and collaborations

Every collaboration counted from the register, so the story never needs a hand-typed number again.

Live from the register
The record

Over a decade,
since 2013

Funding and status

Backed by the Office for Students. The IEL is recognised by RIBA as a world-class space, and the Lab has won many Quintin Hogg Trust grants over the years.

Networks

A member of the SHED Network, convened at MIT, placing the Lab among an international group of pioneering university spaces.

Reach

Campus-wide across Marylebone, and into the wider University on the Lab's own terms. Growth measured by what people learn to put to work, not by footfall.