NISP has recycled some 25 acres of former industrial ship building land (itself recycled from the River Lagan!) and a derelict engineering workshop to produce a campus environment of international quality facilities for the knowledge industries of the 21st Century. Toxic hotspots were excised and placed in a containment cell on-site. The cell has been equipped to treat the toxins with a bespoke cocktail of micro-organisms, prepared by a local company working with Queen's University Belfast. Annual testing shows that the waste will be rendered safe by 2015 and the land will be available for further reuse. In addition, the project has minimized environmental insurance costs, removed the potential of future legislative liability for the toxic land-fill and will allow the land value to rise to its local norm (currently c £1m per acre).

Clean in-fill, from the NISP site and others around Belfast, was used to reclaim the remnants of the Thompson Lagoon, thus creating several acres of future building land.

A former workshop was recycled into a first class, fully air-conditioned environment for ICT-based companies at a saving of one third over standard costs but let at premium rates to global companies. The Thompson Dock and Pump House is to be reworked as a visitor attraction, themed on the Titanic but linking also to the science and engineering past, present and future of the Science Park.

Following a recent comparative study of the recycled content of new buildings in Belfast, NISP's White Star House (a re-enforced concrete construction) was determined at 29%, close to the theoretical reasonable maximum of 32%. The difference was the use of non-recycled carpet. It is intended that all future building be similar or better. The final advantage being that such constructions will be almost completely recycled themselves, when their useful life is over. This minimizes demand on the environment twice, once to reduce quarrying and once in land-fill.

NISP and its tenants adopt best practice for Belfast waste disposal aiming to reduce and to support reuse and recycling by segmenting the waste at source and for collection.