hydrotec is housed in a modern office/laboratory building, located approximately 12km to North West of Leeds City center and close to Leeds-Bradford International Airport. The airport offers regular flights to many locations in continental Europe.

The laboratory comprises a free span portal frame building, with an uninterrupted floor area of 450sq.m, and we can accommodate up to fifteen models at any one time.

Examples of models which can be viewed typically include sewage and clean water pumping stations, river models, spillways, inlet works etc. We are happy to show prospective clients around our facilities and to discuss specific projects and the design optimization which can be achieved though physical modeling.

Models are constructed by our skilled fabricators from clear acrylic materials to ensure dimensional stability and enable all hydraulic phenomena, e.g. surface and submerged vortices, air entrapment , deposition, etc., to be clearly identified and studied. Each model operates completely independently, with its dedicated circulating pumps, calibrated flow measurement and control valves.