[1] LEC's facilities were a joint investment eventually costing over £35 million by NERC / UKCEH and Lancaster University.

In addition to the main site is a 1000m² prefabricated building at the northern end of campus, which houses environmental engineering and instrumentation workshops and large-scale sample preparation facilities for UKCEH.

A Graduate School of the Environment was launched in 2016, to provide a focus for Masters and PhD students, in partnership with UKCEH and Rothamsted Research.

These undertake blue skies research and provide a strategic focus for LEC's collaborative work with science users, including policymakers and industry.

The Centre is currently targeting the development of self-managing heterogeneous infrastructures for data gathering and analysis at a wide range of temporal and spatial scales for both science and industry.