Since opening in October 2015, the Concurrent & Collaborative Design Studio (CCDS) at the University of Strathclyde has been used to foster and promote innovation in the field of aerospace engineering across a wide variety of educational and industrial projects. This paper will describe the development process of the CCDS to now, including a discussion on how it currently operates. In so doing, the paper will go on to present the successes and failures of hosting a concurrent design facility (CDF) in an academic environment, focussing on the provision of teaching and learning as well as industrial engagement. Based on this, a development plan has been proposed to optimise the use of the facility in the future
