The award winning Link Research & Development (R&D) facility is architecturally designed by Mr Peter Beaven.

Our inspirational four level R&D centre is designed to look like a ship sailing over a sea of native bush. This is to reflect the buildings prominent location adjacent to the motorway from Port Lyttelton to Christchurch city. Christchurch is New Zealand's premier electronics city with two universities and a polytechnic, two of which offer electrical engineering (BE) degrees and one Canterbury University offers Doctorate positions to outstanding students. We are privileged that we have two of these outstanding engineers amongst our R&D engineering team.

Above you can see our main engineering floor (white walls), from which we enjoy 270º views. The glass angular room on top (4th floor) is our cafeteria with large decks surrounding.

The sloping white walls contain engineering, below engineering is our meeting room which has floor to ceiling glass (4m) on two sides and looks out into the thick native bush. Meetings are held to the song of the native New Zealand Bellbird.

Show room / Training room

We are able to host up to thirty people, seated, when making presentations or product releases (pictured above and below). Dealer training is usually conducted in small groups using our meeting room.

Behind the show room is our store dispatch facility. Our stores team enjoy a 9m wall of glass looking over the bush with a estuary view in the distance (a huge improvement over the "cave" within our previous facility).

Behind stores is our PCB room where we can rapid prototype PCB's for our own development. Product assembly is conducted outside our facility.

Below is our "cold room" which we can pull down to -30 degrees Celsius for both cold start testing and running as well as bulk product cycling. You can see the ice on this street legal Nissan GTS which is one of our test mules and part time "drift" car when it falls into the "right hands".

Our workshop is purely for our own product development and testing. Two of the walls are again floor to ceiling glass and the whole workshop is canter-levered off piles so that it floats above the bush clad valley with a minimum of impact. Thank you again to Peter for this expensive innovation. Below is one of our test engines the VVTI Lexus V8 which we use for both product development and for demonstrations and training sessions. It is set up so that it can run at 100% power, continuously.

We are rightly proud of our Dynopac

It is the combination of our experienced engineering team and comprehensive research and development facilities that ensure all Link Products are developed to a world class standard.