Messring says it will plan and equip a big new crash-test facility at the Ingolstadt University of Applied Sciences. It will be called CARISSMA (Centre of Automotive Research on Integrated Safety Systems and Measurement Area) project and the company says it is to become the leading scientific centre for integrated safety in Germany.
‘Integrated’ means that the overall concept of all safety-related topics in the vehicle will be studied at a central location. The project is headed by Prof. Dr. Thomas Brandmeier from the University of Ingolstadt.
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At the beginning of the year, the contract for the crash-test facility, one of the core components of CARISSMA, was awarded to Messring, and the company says it is currently working on the structural integration of the new crash-test facility.
CARISSMA is scheduled to be fully operational in January 2016. The centre with a total floor space of 4,000 square meters, will then house laboratories, offices, and testing areas. It is the first publicly funded research centre at a university in Germany.
The German federal government is covering 50% of the costs totalling EUR28 million for the research project, with the state of Bavaria covering the other half. It is claimed this makes the project the largest and “also most state-of-the-art” vehicle testing facility at a university in Europe.
