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Edinburgh Designs Ltd has its roots in the Wave Power Group at the University of Edinburgh in the late 1970’s where the first force-absorbing wide tank was created to test Stephen Salter’s Duck wave power generator. Since the company was formed in 1987, over 2000 paddles have been installed in 27 different countries.
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Professor Stephen Salter and his team at The University of Edinburgh build the first multi-paddle absorbing wave tank for testing the ‘Duck’ renewable device prototype. |
1976 |
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1984 |
University of Edinburgh create double ended narrow tank, 5 narrow tanks (1983,1985,1989,1994,1995) |
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First wavemaker created as Edinburgh Designs - 0.75 by 0.5m deep double ended narrow tank for Technical University of Nova Scotia, Canada |
1990 |
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1993 |
First commercial wide tank: 40 paddle 20m wide by 1.2m deep wide tank for University College Cork, Ireland |
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40 paddle wide tank with a two-axis carriage for the University of Ulsan, South Korea |
1996 |
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1998 |
First large flap machine developed: 24 paddle 10m wide by 30m long wide tank for DGA (French Ministry of Defence) |
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First wave paddle capable of producing sustained 1m waves created for Ecole Centrale de Nantes Read more |
1999 |
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2000 |
Multi-flap wavemaker for wave effect generation in DCA theme park Read more |
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Edinburgh Designs develops the control system for the first Pelamis prototype wave power generator |
2002 |
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2003 |
0.6 x 0,6 x 8m flow tank and 56 paddle 20m by 15m by 1.5m deep tank for Imperial College, London, UK. |
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24 piston paddles on movable modules for coastal tank for Queens University Belfast (Portaferry) |
2008 |
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2009 |
Designed buoyant movable floors and booms for leisure pools for East Midlands International swimming pool |
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Edinburgh Designs wins the contract to create a state of the art multi-facility marine testing centre at Plymouth University. Read more |
2010 |
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2011 |
First wave generators designed to operate within depressurised tank for Marin Depressurised wave basin Read more |
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The first 360 degree wave and current generator is designed for The University of Edinburgh. Read more |
2012 |
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2013 |
Edinburgh Designs commissions the world's largest wave basin for the US Navy: the 216 paddle MASK basin. Read more |
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The first circular wave and current test tank, designed and built by Edinburgh Designs, opens at the University of Edinburgh. Read more |
2014 |
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2015 |
New flap tanks for University of Maine, Stephens Institute and CTO Poland |
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Edinburgh Designs are awarded contract to build the highly prestigeous new Deep Ocean Basin at the National University of Singapore |
2016 |
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2017 |
A novel force feedback, long stroke, absorbing piston machine was built at Stonybrook University. |
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Significant progress is made on the NUS DOBS project during the building phase. |
2018 |
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2019 |
Significant progress on the NUS DOBS tank. |
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Finishing touches to the NUS DOBS tank. |
2020 |
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2021 |
Robotics tank for Khalifa University |
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Handover of the NUS basin to TCOMS. |
2022 |
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2023 |
Large piston flume at North Carolina Wilmington |
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