Enodo signs a partnership with the University of Northumbria at Newcastle

Official Press Release Nice - France / Newcastle upon Tyne - United Kindom, 15 Decembre 2008.

The School of the Built Environment at the University of Northumbria at Newcastle has recently announced a world first!

Through an exclusive partnership with the leading architectural visualisation company ENODO, based in France, Northumbria will be the first university in the world to be granted a license to use the Cryengine2, a next generation games engine, for Architectural research.

ENODO use Cryengine2 - from the world’s leading games developer, Crytek - to produce Interactive Virtual Models ® for major international design practices, such as Foster + Partners and Frank Ghery. This offers clients opportunities to utilise the latest in real-time technology to solve design problems they are faced with.

To coincide with this important development the School will launch its Centre for Advanced Digital Architecture (CADA), a research centre specialising in exploration, innovation and application of new technologies within Architecture and the Built Environment.
The Centre’s research into real-time photorealistic virtual environments concentrates on how multiple disciplines from the construction industry can utilise the power that virtual environments offer the architects, engineers and planners of the future, by using virtual environments and models throughout the design process as the ultimate problem solving tool.

Jean-Baptiste Reynes, co-founder of ENODO, said "we have a very enthusiastic and dedicated team here at ENODO and we welcome the prospect of working alongside like-minded individuals at CADA to further such pioneering international architectural research".

Similarly, the University of Northumbria welcome the link with ENODO, and see this as an important step in their aspirations for CADA to become a top research centre in the field.

Oliver Jones, Lead Researcher at CADA, "this technology already has the power to drastically change the way we design  buildings but it is the way that power is utilised that will truly revolutionise the architecture of the future, ENODO are leading the way in serious game applications and we are very excited to be working together."

For more information on the CADA: www.northumbria.ac.uk
or contact: oliver.g.f.jones@northumbria.ac.uk

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